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The Cultural Work of Empire: The Seven Years' War and the Imagining of the Shandean State

Autor Carol Watts
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 oct 2007

In this unique study, Carol Watts argues that the Seven Years' War (1756-1763) produced an intense historical consciousness within British cultural life, an awareness made particularly manifest in the sense of belonging to community, family and nation. Furthermore, she discusses global warfare as prompting a radical re-imagining of the state and the subjectivities of those who inhabit it.

The distinctive writing of Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) is used as a conduit through which to examine the transformations of mid-eighteenth century British culture. Watts revisits this tumultuous period wherein the risks of war generated unexpected freedoms and crises in the making of domestic imperial subjects, crises which continued to reverberate in anti-slavery struggles and colonial conflict from America to India. "The Cultural Work of Empire" concentrates on the period from the 1750s to the 1770s and looks at the works of Johnson, Burke, Scott, Wheatley, Rousseau, Smith, Wollstonecraft, Sterne and others as evidence of the cultural impact of the Seven Years' War on British life.

Incorporating elements of moral philosophy and philanthropy, political tracts, poetry and grammar exercises, and paintings by Kauffman, Hayman, and Wright of Derby, this original study tracks the investments in and resistances to the cultural work of empire.

North American Rights Only. Co-published with University of Edinburgh Press.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780802097910
ISBN-10: 080209791X
Pagini: 335
Dimensiuni: 164 x 238 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.75 kg
Editura: University of Toronto Press

Notă biografică

"Carol Watts is a senior lecturer in the School of English and Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London."

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'This brilliant book is about the cultural history of the Seven Years War - the first global war. It describes how subjectivity was made and remade by the transforming power of globalisation, as it impinged on gender, the family, citizenship, sovereignty, work, agency, and belonging. The reach and range of its arguments are amazing.'-John Barrell, Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York