This volume brings together an unusual collection of British captivity writings - composed during and after imprisonment and in conditions of siege. Writings from the 'Mutiny' of 1857 are well known, but there exists a vast body of texts, from Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Burma, and the Indian subcontinent, that have rarely been compiled or examined. From Robert Knox's 17th-century account of imprisonment in Sri Lanka, through J. Z. Holwell's famous account of the 'Black Hole' of Calcutta, through Florentia Sale's Afghan memoir, and Lady Inglis' 'Mutiny' diary from Lucknow, the book opens up a dark and revealing corner of the colonial archive.…mehr
This volume brings together an unusual collection of British captivity writings - composed during and after imprisonment and in conditions of siege. Writings from the 'Mutiny' of 1857 are well known, but there exists a vast body of texts, from Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Burma, and the Indian subcontinent, that have rarely been compiled or examined. From Robert Knox's 17th-century account of imprisonment in Sri Lanka, through J. Z. Holwell's famous account of the 'Black Hole' of Calcutta, through Florentia Sale's Afghan memoir, and Lady Inglis' 'Mutiny' diary from Lucknow, the book opens up a dark and revealing corner of the colonial archive.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Pramod K. Nayar teaches in the Department of English at the University of Hyderabad, India. His most recent books include The Indian Graphic Novel: Nation, History and Critique (Routledge, 2016), The Transnational in English Literature: Shakespeare to the Modern (Routledge, 2015), the edited Postcolonial Studies: An Anthology (2015) and the Postcolonial Studies Dictionary (2015). A book on human rights and literature and an edited five-volume collection Indian Travel Writing, 1830-1947 are forthcoming, besides essays on celebrity studies, graphic biographies and colonial etiquette books.
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Preface Introduction 1 An historical relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies (1681) ROBERT KNOX 2 A genuine narrative of the deaths of English gentlemen (1764) J.Z. HOLWELL 3 Personal narrative of two years' imprisonment in Burmah (1860) HENRY GOUGER 4 A journal of the disasters in Afghanistan (1843) LADY [FLORENTIA] SALE 5 The military operations at Cabul (1843) VINCENT EYRE 6 From the Calcutta Gazette (1791) WILLIAM DRAKE 7 A narrative of the sufferings of James Bristow (1793) JAMES BRISTOW 8 A narrative of the military operations on the Coromandel Coast (1789) INNES MUNRO 9 The captivity, sufferings and escape of James Scurry (1824) JAMES SCURRY 10 An authentic account of the treatment of English prisoners (1785) HENRY OAKES 11 Siege of Lucknow: a diary (1892) LADY [JULIA] INGLIS
Preface Introduction 1 An historical relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies (1681) ROBERT KNOX 2 A genuine narrative of the deaths of English gentlemen (1764) J.Z. HOLWELL 3 Personal narrative of two years' imprisonment in Burmah (1860) HENRY GOUGER 4 A journal of the disasters in Afghanistan (1843) LADY [FLORENTIA] SALE 5 The military operations at Cabul (1843) VINCENT EYRE 6 From the Calcutta Gazette (1791) WILLIAM DRAKE 7 A narrative of the sufferings of James Bristow (1793) JAMES BRISTOW 8 A narrative of the military operations on the Coromandel Coast (1789) INNES MUNRO 9 The captivity, sufferings and escape of James Scurry (1824) JAMES SCURRY 10 An authentic account of the treatment of English prisoners (1785) HENRY OAKES 11 Siege of Lucknow: a diary (1892) LADY [JULIA] INGLIS
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