Sentimental Figures of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France

by Lynn Festa

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In this ambitious and original study, Lynn Festa examines how and why sentimental fiction became one of the primary ways of representing British and French relations with colonial populations in the eighteenth century. Drawing from novels, poetry, travel narratives, commerce manuals, and philosophical writings, Festa shows how sentimentality shaped communal and personal assertions of identity in an age of empire. Read in isolation, sentimental texts...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0801884306

ISBN13:9780801884306

Release Date:October 2006

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Length:312 Pages

Weight:1.29 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"

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