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020			_a9781107007895 (hardback)
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041			_aeng
082	0	0	_a820.9006 _223 _bJOL 2011
100	1		_aJones, Robert W., _cDr.
245	1	0	_aLiterature, gender and politics in Britain during the war for America, 1770-1785 / _cRobert Jones.
260			_aCambridge ; _aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c2011.
300			_axi, 267 p. : _bIll. _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 241-262) and index.
505	8		_aMachine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. The character of opposition; 2. Edmund Burke and the law of empire; 3. The wounding of John Burgoyne; 4. Admiral Keppel and the honour of the nation; 5. Richard Brinsley Sheridan and the theatre of patriotism; 6. The victorious defeat of Thomas Chatterton; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.
520			_a"The successful performance of a particular kind of masculinity was critical to political life during the eighteenth century, when men who claimed membership of the public sphere were expected to be men of honour as well as property. By the 1770s, however, the transformative effects of commerce and the claims of politeness complicated older certainties. Robert Jones examines how the parliamentary Opposition and their literary allies responded to political pressures and the emergencies of a disastrous war by fashioning a new mode of politics based on a more flexible range of masculinities. Basing his study on close readings of Edmund Burke and Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the trials of General Burgoyne and Admiral Keppel, and the Whig appropriation of Thomas Chatterton, Jones explores how Opposition discourse risked the charge of effeminacy in order to fuse the languages of honour and sensibility"--
520			_a"The years of the American crisis and its escalation into the War of American Independence are a period of uncertain, even eccentric developments. As Britain argued with her once loyal subjects the nation appeared mired in luxury, its economy bloated by the rampant successes of the Seven Years' War. Her merchants had grown wealthy, but her people, especially the elite, seemed enfeebled by idle pleasures. Fops and Macaroni pranced on the streets, sipped coffee and dressed appallingly. They did not seem to be the men to fight a war. Worrying comparisons with Roman luxury and decline soon became the common currency of debate. The struggle for the colonies would indeed prove disastrous, huge and embarrassing defeats, at Saratoga in 1777 and later at Yorktown, lead to the loss of some of Britain's most valuable possessions"--
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650		0	_aEnglish literature _y18th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aPolitics and literature _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y18th century.
650		0	_aMasculinity in literature.
650		0	_aMasculinity _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y18th century.
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. _2bisacsh
651		0	_aUnited States _xHistory _yRevolution, 1775-1783 _xLiterature and the revolution.
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