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Literature, Gender and Politics in Britain during the War for America, 1770-1785 (Paperback)
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Literature, Gender and Politics in Britain during the War for America, 1770-1785 (Paperback)
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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.
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