Making British Indian Fictions: 1772-1823
This book examines fictional representations of India in novels, plays and poetry produced between the years 1772 to 1823 as historical source material. It uses literary texts as case studies to investigate how Britons residing both in the metropole and in India justified, confronted and imagined the colonial encounter during this period.
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Making British Indian Fictions: 1772-1823
This book examines fictional representations of India in novels, plays and poetry produced between the years 1772 to 1823 as historical source material. It uses literary texts as case studies to investigate how Britons residing both in the metropole and in India justified, confronted and imagined the colonial encounter during this period.
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Making British Indian Fictions: 1772-1823

Making British Indian Fictions: 1772-1823

by A. Malhotra
Making British Indian Fictions: 1772-1823

Making British Indian Fictions: 1772-1823

by A. Malhotra

Hardcover(2012)

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Overview

This book examines fictional representations of India in novels, plays and poetry produced between the years 1772 to 1823 as historical source material. It uses literary texts as case studies to investigate how Britons residing both in the metropole and in India justified, confronted and imagined the colonial encounter during this period.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780230111264
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date: 06/08/2012
Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
Edition description: 2012
Pages: 277
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

ASHOK MALHOTRA is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Warwick, UK.

Table of Contents

Encountering the Orient and India in Metropolitan Culture and the Print Market Romantic Representations of the Subcontinent: 'Subliming India' and Configuring its Geopolitical Significance Performing the 'Civilizing Mission' on the British Stage The Novel Market: the Commoditization of Indian Culture by Novelists Religion and Sex in the Subcontinent Exile, Ethnography, and Anglo-Indian Life within the Subcontinent
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