Jones, R. orcid.org/0000-0002-0817-035X (2024) War and Empire. In: Griffin, M. and O’Shaughnessy, D., (eds.) Oliver Goldsmith in Context. Literature in Context . Cambridge University Press , Cambridge, UK , pp. 141-148. ISBN 9781316518915
Abstract
War and Empire’ examines Goldsmith’s commentaries on colonial and national conflicts, wars of expansion and disasters in foreign fields, exploring two related concerns: the falling status of the ‘event’ in the historiographical and political imagination, and the decline, as he saw it, of ‘great men’. The chapter provides clear details of the major conflicts which occurred during Goldsmith’s lifetime: the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–8; including the War of Jenkins’s Ear); the Seven Years’ War (1756–63), by far the most important; and finally the mounting crisis in the American colonies, its final trajectory discernible even when Goldsmith died in 1774.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | This item is protected by copyright. This is an author produced version of a book chapter published in Oliver Goldsmith in Context. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Seven Years’, War, War of Jenkins’s Ear, War of the Austrian Succession, trade, fame |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of English (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 27 Jun 2024 13:54 |
Last Modified: | 17 Dec 2024 16:19 |
Published Version: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/oliver-go... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Series Name: | Literature in Context |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/9781009004015.019 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:213982 |
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