The Culture of the Seven Years' War : : Empire, Identity, and the Arts in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World / / Frans de Bruyn, Shaun Regan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Pilot 2014-2015
• HerausgeberIn: Regan, Shaun,; de Bruyn, Frans,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (372 p.)

The Seven Years' War (1756-1763) was the decisive conflict of the eighteenth century - Winston Churchill called it the first "world war" - and the clash which forever changed the course of North American history. Yet compared with other momentous conflicts like the Napoleonic Wars or the First World War, the cultural impact of the Seven Years' War remains woefully understudied.The Culture of the Seven Years' War is the first collection of essays to take a broad interdisciplinary and multinational approach to this important global conflict. Rather than focusing exclusively on political, diplomatic, or military issues, this collection examines the impact of representation, identity, and conceptions and experiences of empire.With essays by notable scholars that address the war's impact in Europe and the Atlantic world, this volume is sure to become essential reading for those interested in the relationship between war, culture, and the arts.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 From Vernon to Wolfe: Empire and Identity in the British Atlantic World of the Mid-Eighteenth Century -- 2 1759 - Year of Decision? -- 3 Colonial Disease, Translation, and Enlightenment: Franco-British Medicine and the Seven Years' War -- 4 "Under His Majesty's Protection": The Meaning of the Conquest for the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada -- 5 Paper Wars: Literature and/as Conflict during the Seven Years' War -- 6 Shakespeare, Voltaire, and the Seven Years' War: Literary Criticism as Cultural Battlefield -- 7 "What d'ye call him, Tierconneldrago ...": Oliver Goldsmith and the Seven Years' War -- 8 The View from St James's Palace in 1759: A Court Perspective on the Annus Mirabilis -- 9 "Unfit to Serve": Honour, Masculinity, and the Fate of Lord George Sackville -- 10 Olaudah Equiano and the Seven Years' War: Slavery, Service, and the Sea -- 11 Setting the Empire in Stone: Commemorating Wolfe in the Gardens at Stowe -- 12 George Stubbs's The Zebra and the Spectacle of Fine Art at the End of the Seven Years' War -- 13 Facing Past and Future Empires: Joshua Reynolds's Portraits of Augustus Keppel -- Notes on Contributors -- Index