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Nation-Space in Enlightenment Britain - An Archaeology of Empire (Hardcover)
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Nation-Space in Enlightenment Britain - An Archaeology of Empire (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature
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Nation-Space in Enlightenment Britain: An Archaeology of Empire is
a provocative intervention that extends considerably the parameters
of on-going dialogues about British identity during the
Enlightenment. Thoughtfully interdisciplinary and with an
allegiance to the culture which literary production engenders, this
book describes how British identity emerges not despite of but due
to its fluid, volatile, and subversive impulses and expressions.
The imperial establishment-codified in the logics of the
corporation, the academy, the cathedral, the theater, as well the
private parlor or garden-derives its power and sustainability from
scripting and then championing a solid resistance to precisely
those subversive elements which threaten or undermine the
foundations of order and liberalism in civil society. Choudhury
argues that imperial Britain can best be understood in terms of
this culture's investment in spatial alignments which celebrated a
radial interface with remote points of commercial interest. The
volume contends Daniel Defoe, Arthur Onslow, David Garrick, Joseph
Banks, Daniel Solander, Hans Sloane, Francis Barber, Samuel
Johnson, Charles Burney, George Frideric Handel were not merely
part of a dazzling line-up of the architects of empire. In
retrospect, their contributions and various engagements reflect
remarkably modern patterns of the corporatization of culture and
this culture's dependence on, and thus its collusion with,
commerce.
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