03237nam 2200733 a 450 991078470590332120230607221454.00-19-772376-41-280-53237-80-19-534870-21-4294-0334-9(CKB)1000000000406386(EBL)281294(OCoLC)191935615(SSID)ssj0000140047(PQKBManifestationID)11137175(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000140047(PQKBWorkID)10029274(PQKB)10670904(Au-PeEL)EBL281294(CaPaEBR)ebr10142456(CaONFJC)MIL53237(OCoLC)935262239(MiAaPQ)EBC281294(EXLCZ)99100000000040638620020329d2002 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrDissenters and mavericks[electronic resource] writings about India in English, 1765-2000 /Margery SabinOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20021 online resource (250 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-515018-X 0-19-515017-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-232) and index.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;This study reinstates the author at 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.English literatureHistory and criticismAnglo-Indian literatureHistory and criticismIndic literature (English)History and criticismImperialism in literaturePostcolonialismIndiaIndiaIn literatureIndiaForeign public opinion, BritishGreat BritainRelationsIndiaIndiaRelationsGreat BritainIndiaHistoriographyEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.Anglo-Indian literatureHistory and criticism.Indic literature (English)History and criticism.Imperialism in literature.Postcolonialism820.9/3254Sabin Margery1940-1501230MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784705903321Dissenters and mavericks3728347UNINA