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UNINA9910809672803321 |
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Autore |
Sabin Margery <1940-> |
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Titolo |
Dissenters and mavericks : writings about India in English, 1765-2000 / / Margery Sabin |
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New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023 |
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0-19-028772-1 |
0-19-772376-4 |
1-280-53237-8 |
0-19-534870-2 |
1-4294-0334-9 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (250 p.) |
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Collana |
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Oxford scholarship online |
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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 |
India In literature |
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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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Previously issued in print: 2002. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references 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 to the centre of the relationship between literature and history. It explores the tension between discourse analysis and literary criticism, then discusses writers who have achieved a measure of freedom from the limitations of their historical moments. |
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