The Cultural Work of Empire : : The Seven Years' War and the Imagining of the Shandean State / / Carol Watts.
This book argues that the Seven Years' War (1756-63) produced an intense historical consciousness within British cultural life regarding the boundaries of belonging to community, family and nation. Global warfare prompts a radical re-imagining of the state and the subjectivities of those who in...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: The Cultural Work of Empire
- Chapter 1 Lunacy in the Cosmopolis (1759) : Expansion and Imperial Recoil
- Chapter 2 Patriot Games: Military Masculinity and the Recompense of Virtue
- Chapter 3 Pricksongs in Gotham: Or, the Sexual Oeconomy of State Imagining
- Chapter 4 Friendship, Slavery and the Politics of Pity, Including a Visit from Phillis Wheatley
- Chapter 5 Women's Time and Work-Discipline: Or, the Secret History of 'Poor Maria'
- Chapter 6 'Bramin, Bramine': Sterne, Eliza Draper and the Passage to India
- Chapter 7 Concluding Along Shandean Lines
- Bibliography
- Index