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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: 2010
    Publisher:  Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

    This work argues that the Seven Years' War (1756-63) produced both an intense historial consciousness within British cultural life regarding the boundaries of belonging to community, family and nation, and a radical re-imagining of the state and the... more

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    This work argues that the Seven Years' War (1756-63) produced both an intense historial consciousness within British cultural life regarding the boundaries of belonging to community, family and nation, and a radical re-imagining of the state and the subjectivities of those who inhabit it 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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