The Culture of the Seven Years' War: Empire, Identity, and the Arts in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

Acknowledgments

Introduction – Shaun Regan (Queen’s University Belfast, Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature) and Frans de Bruyn (University of Ottawa, English)

I. The Experience of Empire in the Seven Years’ War

1. From Vernon to Wolfe: Empire and Identity in the British Atlantic World of the Mid-Eighteenth Century – Nicholas Rogers (York University, History)

2. 1759: Year of Decision? – Fred Anderson (University of Colorado, Boulder, History)

3. Colonial Disease, Translation, and Enlightenment: Franco-British Medicine and the Seven Years’ War – Erica Charters (University of Oxford, History of Medicine)

4. “Under His Majesty’s Protection”: The Meaning of the Conquest for the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada – Alain Beaulieu (Université du Québec à Montréal, History)

II. Imagining Conflict: Literature and the War

5. Paper Wars: Literature and/as Conflict during the Seven Years’ War – Thomas Keymer (University of Toronto, English)

6. Shakespeare, Voltaire, and the Seven Years’ War: Literary Criticism as Cultural Battlefield – Frans de Bruyn

7. “What d’ye call him, Tierconneldrago…”: Oliver Goldsmith and the Seven Years’ War – Michael J. Griffin (University of Limerick, English)

III. Individuals and Identities: Status, Gender, and Race

8. The View from St. James’s Palace in 1759: A Court Perspective on the Annus Mirabilis – Nigel Aston (University of Leeds, English)

9. “Unfit to Serve”: Honour, Masculinity, and the Fate of Lord George Sackville – Robert W. Jones (University of Leeds, English)

10. Olaudah Equiano and the Seven Years’ War: Slavery, Service, and the Sea – Shaun Regan

IV. Empire and the Arts

11. Setting the Empire in Stone: Commemorating Wolfe in the Gardens at Stowe – Joan Coutu (University of Waterloo, Art History)

12. George Stubbs’s The Zebra and the Spectacle of Fine Art at the End of the Seven Years’ War – Douglas Fordham (University of Virginia, Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century European Art)

13. Facing Past and Future Empires: Joshua Reynolds’s Portraits of Augustus Keppel – Daniel O’Quinn (University of Guelph, English)

List of Contributors

Index