Romantic Representations of British India (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Franklin, Michael J

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Students and academics involved with literary studies and history will find this exploration of the British cultural understanding of India extremely useful. The essays within this collection cover a wide range of topics and are written by an impressive troupe of contributors including P.J. Marshall, Anne Mellor and Nigel Leask.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134183081
• Artikelnr.: 42675641

Autorenporträt

Michael J Franklin

Inhaltsangabe

1. General Introduction and [Meta]historical Background [re]presenting 1
'The Palanquins of State; or, Broken Leaves in a Mughal Garden'
2. British-Indian Connections c. 1780 to c. 1830: The Empire of the
Officials
Peter Marshall
3. Torrents, Flames and the Education of Desire: Battling Hindu
Superstition
on the London Stage
Daniel O'Quinn
4. Between Mimesis and Alterity: Art Gift and Diplomacy in Colonial
India 150
Natasha Eaton
5. Poetic Flowers/Indian Bowers
Tim Fulford
6. 'Where ... success is certain'? Southey the literary East Indiaman'
Lynda Pratt,
7. Radically Feminizing India: Phebe Gibbes's Hartly House, Calcutta
(1789)
and Sydney Owenson's The Missionary: An Indian Tale (1811)
Michael J. Franklin
8. Imperial Strains: Shelley and Music
Tilar Mazzeo
9. 'Very acute and plausible': The Reception of Sir William Jones's
'On the Musical Modes of the Hindus' (1792)
Bennett Zon
10. 'Traveling the Other Way': The Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan (1810)
and Romantic Orientalism
Nigel Leask
11. Orientalism, Militarism and Romanticism: Writing and Rewriting
the History of the British Conquest of India
Douglas Peers
12. Orientalism and Religion in the Romantic Period:
Rammohun Ray's Vedanta(s)
Amit Ray