Orienting virtue : civic identity and orientalism in Britain's global eighteenth century /
"This book examines how British writers in the eighteenth century deployed images of the East to shape ideas of virtue and political identity"--
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2022.
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| Mynediad Ar-lein: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3333965 |
Tabl Cynhwysion:
- 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.