Orienting Virtue

A new review in Journal of British Studies. “Williamson is less concerned with virtue as a personal category of analysis and more with virtue as a political idea. This is a preference heartily welcomed in eighteenth-century British studies, which has not taken late twentieth-century debates about civic humanism nearly far enough out of their home in intellectual history and tested them in literary, imperial, or cultural history.” Read the whole thing here:

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