UID:
almafu_9959231555702883
Format:
1 online resource (ix, 335 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-7486-7171-4
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1-281-25197-6
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9786611251970
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0-7486-3122-4
Content:
A vibrant study of the rich cultural and literary landscape of mid-eighteenth Britain and the forging of modern subjectivity in a time of global war.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
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Introduction : the cultural work of empire -- Lunacy in the cosmopolis (1759) : expansion and imperial recoil -- Patriot games : military masculinity and the recompense of virtue -- Pricksongs in gotham : or, the sexual oeconomy of state imagining -- Friendship, slavery and the politics of pity, including a visit from Phyllis Wheatley -- Women's time and work-discipline : or, the secret history of 'Poor Maria' -- 'Bramin, Bramine' : Sterne, Eliza Draper and the passage to India -- Concluding along Shandean lines.
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Issued also in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7486-2564-X
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780748631223
