Frans De Bruyn is Professor of English and Vice-Dean in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ottawa. Shaun Regan is Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature at Queen’s University Belfast.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction – 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’ War1. 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 War5. 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 Bruyn7. “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 Race8. 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 ReganIV. Empire and the Arts11. 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 ContributorsIndex

‘This handsome collection captures both the uncertainty prior to and the triumphalism after the annus mirabulis of 1759.’- Daniel O'Quinn (Studies in English Literature vol 55:03:2015) ‘This excellent collection not only throws valuable light on the period of Seven Years War but also offers a model that is appropriate for other periods…. Well produced and handsomely illustrated.’- Jeremy Black (Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies; vol 39:01:2016)

Frans De Bruyn is Professor of English and Vice-Dean in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ottawa. Shaun Regan is Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature at Queen’s University Belfast.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction – 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’ War1. 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 War5. 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 Bruyn7. “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 Race8. 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 ReganIV. Empire and the Arts11. 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 ContributorsIndex

‘This handsome collection captures both the uncertainty prior to and the triumphalism after the annus mirabulis of 1759.’- Daniel O'Quinn (Studies in English Literature vol 55:03:2015) ‘This excellent collection not only throws valuable light on the period of Seven Years War but also offers a model that is appropriate for other periods…. Well produced and handsomely illustrated.’- Jeremy Black (Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies; vol 39:01:2016)

Frans De Bruyn is Professor of English and Vice-Dean in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ottawa. Shaun Regan is Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature at Queen’s University Belfast.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction – 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’ War1. 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 War5. 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 Bruyn7. “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 Race8. 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 ReganIV. Empire and the Arts11. 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 ContributorsIndex

‘This handsome collection captures both the uncertainty prior to and the triumphalism after the annus mirabulis of 1759.’- Daniel O'Quinn (Studies in English Literature vol 55:03:2015) ‘This excellent collection not only throws valuable light on the period of Seven Years War but also offers a model that is appropriate for other periods…. Well produced and handsomely illustrated.’- Jeremy Black (Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies; vol 39:01:2016)