Balachandra Rajan

Under Western Eyes

India from Milton to Macaulay

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Produktbeschreibung

""Under Western Eyes" is a learned, sophisticated, often brilliant analysis of the consolidation of English imperialist discourse about India from the earliest stages of the East India Company through the 1830s."--Patrick Brantlinger, Indiana University

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 144mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780822322986
• ISBN-10: 0822322986
• Artikelnr.: 21657870

Autorenporträt

Balachandra Rajan is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Western Ontario. He has written numerous scholarly books, including The Form of the Unfinished: English Poetics from Spenser to Pound and two novels.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Preliminary Navigations
1. The Lusiads and the Asian Reader
2. Banyan Trees and Fig Leaves: Some thoughts on Milton's India
3. Appropriating India: Dryden's Great Mogul
4. James Mill and the Caes of the Hottentot Venus
5. Hegel's India and the Surprise of Sin
6. Feminizing the Feminine: Early Women Writers on India
7. Monstrous Mythologies: Southey and the Curse of Kehama
8. Understanding Asia: Shelley's Prometheus Unbound
9. Macaulay: The Moment and the Minute
Afterword: From Center to Circumference
Notes
Index