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"Asiatick Fire & Figure," or, How Joseph Emin Made Mrs. Montagu an Avant-garde Critic in Her Empathy with the East

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Huntington Library Quarterly, Volume: 81, Issue: 4, Pages: 573 - 601

Swansea University Author: Michael Franklin Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1353/hlq.2018.0026

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ABSTRACT Against a background of fears that Britain was in grave danger of repeating Roman decline into imperial decadence, indolence, and corruption, this essay attempts to explore the appeal of Joseph Emin for a whole swath of the haut ton. His desperate courage and profound patriotism provided an...

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Published in: Huntington Library Quarterly
ISSN: 1544-399X
Published: San Marino, California Project Muse 2019
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