Sympathy and India in British Literature, 1770-1830
India was the object of intense sympathetic concern during the Romantic period. But what was the true nature of imaginative engagement with British India? This study explores how a range of authors, from Edmund Burke and Sir William Jones to Robert Southey and Thomas Moore, sought to come to terms with India's strangeness and distance from Britain.
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Sympathy and India in British Literature, 1770-1830
India was the object of intense sympathetic concern during the Romantic period. But what was the true nature of imaginative engagement with British India? This study explores how a range of authors, from Edmund Burke and Sir William Jones to Robert Southey and Thomas Moore, sought to come to terms with India's strangeness and distance from Britain.
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Sympathy and India in British Literature, 1770-1830

Sympathy and India in British Literature, 1770-1830

by A. Rudd
Sympathy and India in British Literature, 1770-1830

Sympathy and India in British Literature, 1770-1830

by A. Rudd

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Overview

India was the object of intense sympathetic concern during the Romantic period. But what was the true nature of imaginative engagement with British India? This study explores how a range of authors, from Edmund Burke and Sir William Jones to Robert Southey and Thomas Moore, sought to come to terms with India's strangeness and distance from Britain.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781349313426
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 01/01/2011
Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
Edition description: 1st ed. 2011
Pages: 216
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

ANDREW RUDD Teaches English literature at the Open University, UK. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Edmund Burke and the Trial of Warren Hastings 'No less pious than sublime': the Sympathetic Vision of Sir William Jones Sympathy in a Hot Climate: British and Indian Subjects at the turn of the century Gothic Sympathy and Missionary Writing 'Oriental' versus 'Orientalist' Poetry: the Debate in Romantic Period Literary Criticism Epilogue: Orientalism under Pressure Bibliography Index
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