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Orienting Virtue : Civic Identity and Orientalism in Britain's Global Eighteenth Century /
"This book examines how British writers in the the eighteenth century deployed images of the East to shape ideas of virtue and political identity"--
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2022.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Defining English Virtue in the Global Eighteenth Century
- 1. "Our Lusts Gave Us Liberty": Mercantile Might and English Republicanism in Neville's Isle of Pines
- 2. "Striking Sail" in Satire: Heroic Virtue and the Mughal Machiavelli in Dryden's Aureng-Zebe
- 3. Recovering the "True Spirit of Liberty": Gulliver's Travels in Sparta and Japan
- 4. "Happy to Be Enslaved": Feminist Orientalism and the Constraints of Romance in Pix's Ibrahim, Kindersley's Letters, and Lennox's Female Quixote
- 5. Rasselas's "Conscious Virtue": Cosmopolitan Civics in Johnson and Ellis Cornelia Knight
- Afterword: A Kantian Legacy of Cosmopolitan Virtue Signaling
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index