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

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. 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. Carol Watts. Title From Publisher's Bibliographic System (viewed On 02 Oct 2015). Includes Bibliographical References And Index. English