The Problem of Population and the Form of the American Novel

Armstrong, Nancy; Tennenhouse, Leonard

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“…Armstrong suggests that Jennings' financial estimates were only 40 per cent of the original sum, for he states that at the same time as the mouth of the harbour was being fortified, 'Mr Griffith, an agent to the Commissioners for Sick and Wounded Seamen, made a Contract for the Building, by Sir John's [Jennings] order, for the sum of £3,6oo'. 67 By the following June, Jennings had sent to London the plans and contracts which he had drawn up on the island. A year later Jennings had to explain his procedural irregularity, in that he had commenced without permission.…”

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The Hospital de la Isla del Rey, Minorca: Britain’s Island Hospital

Akehurst¹

2010

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The small Spanish island of Minorca is the unexpected setting for a British naval hospital. It was constructed from 1711, during the first years of the British military occupation of the island, to provide medical care to mariners as they served in the strategically important Mediterranean. Scholars working in the fields of both medical and architectural history agree on the innovative importance of this hospital. Christine Stevenson, the foremost expert on early modern British hospital architecture, stated that: ‘the first of the purpose-built naval hospitals was at Port Mahon, Minorca […] [It] was, however, unique until the 1740s, when others were built on Jamaica and Gibraltar’. In terms of the history of hospital architecture, the Minorcan hospital’s role, as the sole purpose-built British naval hospital for over three decades, was a reflection of its exceptional setting, for it presented the British navy with an opportunity to create an infirmary that realized contemporary ideals of hospital design. The single-storey limestone edifice, which adopted the U-shaped plan already pioneered by Sir Christopher Wren (1635-1703) back in England, was located on an island in the middle of Mahon harbour, known by the name Isla del Rey. This was a highly significant location in Minorcan history, formerly called Ilia dels Conills (Rabbit Island), and was named for King Alfonso III of Aragon. It was from this island that Alfonso launched his reconquest of Minorca for Christendom from the Moors, and from this point in time Minorca was incorporated into Catalonia. No evidence has yet come to light of this important name in British usage; instead the occupiers referred to it as ‘Bloody Island’, or ‘Hospital Island’. Despite the informal and macabre renaming of the harbour island it was, however, a beautiful location, cooled by sea breezes, and was visible from all the surrounding cliffs.

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The Hospital de la Isla del Rey, Minorca: Britain’s Island Hospital

Akehurst¹

2010

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The American School of Empire

Larkin

2016

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Early American artists and political thinkers wrestled with the challenges of forming a cohesive, if not coherent, culture and political structure to organize the young republic and its diverse peoples. The American School of Empire shows how this American idea of empire emerged through a dialogue with British forms of empire, becoming foundational to how the US organized its government and providing early Americans with the framework for thinking about the relations between states and the disparate peoples and cultures that defined them. Edward Larkin places special emphasis on the forms of the novel and history painting, which were crucial vehicles for the articulation of the American vision of empire in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

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Geopolitics and the Anglophone Novel, 1890–2011

Marx

2012

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Literary fiction is a powerful cultural tool for criticizing governments and for imagining how better governance and better states would work. Combining political theory with strong readings of a vast range of novels, John Marx shows that fiction over the long twentieth century often envisioned good government not in utopian but in pragmatic terms. Early twentieth-century novels by Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, and Rabindrananth Tagore helped forecast world government after European imperialism. Twenty-first-century novelists such as Monica Ali, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Michael Ondaatje, and Amitav Ghosh have inherited that legacy and continue to criticize existing policies in order to formulate best practices on a global scale. Marx shows how literature can make an important contribution to political and social sciences by creating a space to imagine and experiment with social organization.

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The Problem of Population and the Form of the American Novel

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The Hospital de la Isla del Rey, Minorca: Britain’s Island Hospital

The Hospital de la Isla del Rey, Minorca: Britain’s Island Hospital

The American School of Empire

Geopolitics and the Anglophone Novel, 1890–2011

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