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  1. The cultural work of empire :
    The Seven Years' War and the imagining of the Shandean state /
    Author: Watts, Carol.
    Published: 2007.
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press,, Toronto :

    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. more

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    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Zentralbibliothek
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    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.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0-7486-7171-4; 1-281-25197-6; 9786611251970; 0-7486-3122-4
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    Edition: 1st ed.
    Subjects: Seven Years' War, 1756-1763; Subjectivity.
    Other subjects: Sterne, Laurence, (1713-1768)
    Scope: 1 online resource (ix, 335 pages) :, digital, PDF file(s).
    Notes:

    Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    Issued also in print.

    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.