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Autore |
Sabin Margery <1940-> |
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Titolo |
Dissenters and mavericks [[electronic resource] ] : writings about India in English, 1765-2000 / / Margery Sabin |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2002 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-772376-4 |
1-280-53237-8 |
0-19-534870-2 |
1-4294-0334-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (250 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English literature - History and criticism |
Anglo-Indian literature - History and criticism |
Indic literature (English) - History and criticism |
Imperialism in literature |
Postcolonialism - India |
India In literature |
India Foreign public opinion, British |
Great Britain Relations India |
India Relations Great Britain |
India Historiography |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-232) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Introduction: Why Dissent Matters to Literature; I. THE COLONIAL PERIOD; 1. Anti-Imperialist Wit in Horace Walpole's Letters; 2. Burke's India Campaign: Goliath, Scourge, Redeemer; 3. William Henry Sleeman and the Suttee Romance; 4. Victorian Oblivion and The Moonstone; II. AFTER INDEPENDENCE; Prologue to Part II; 5. The Beast in Nirad Chaudhuri's Garden; 6. The Politics of Cultural Freedom: India in the 1950's; 7. Individuality as a Problem in Naipaul's Indian Narratives; 8. Epilogue: Pankaj Mishra and Postcolonial Cosmopolitanism; Notes; Bibliography; Index; |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This study reinstates the author at the centre of the relationship |
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