| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 256 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: Defining English virtue in the global eighteenth century -- "Our lusts gave us liberty" : mercantile might and English republicanism in Neville's Isle of pines -- "Striking sail" in satire : heroic virtue and the Mughal Machiavelli in Dryden's Aureng-Zebe -- Recovering the "True spirit of liberty" : Gulliver's Travels in Sparta and Japan -- "Happy to be enslaved" : feminist orientalism and the constraints of romance in Pix's Ibrahim, Kindersley's Letters, and Lennox's Female Quixote -- Rasselas's "Conscious virtue" : cosmopolitan civics in Johnson and Ellis Cornelia Knight -- Afterword: A Kantian legacy of cosmopolitan virtue signaling |
| Summary |
"This book examines how British writers in the eighteenth century deployed images of the East to shape ideas of virtue and political identity"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 21, 2022) |
| Subject |
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
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Virtue in literature.
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National characteristics, English, in literature.
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Orientalism in literature.
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HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century
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English literature
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National characteristics, English, in literature
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Orientalism in literature
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Virtue in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism
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Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2022023748 |
| ISBN |
9780813947624 |
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0813947626 |
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