03106nam 2200721un 450 991080967280332120240410131451.00-19-772376-41-280-53237-80-19-534870-21-4294-0334-910.1093/oso/9780195150179.001.0001(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(OCoLC)1406784290(StDuBDS)9780197723760(EXLCZ)99100000000040638620030331e20232002 |y |engurcn|||||||||txtccrDissenters and mavericks writings about India in English, 1765-2000 /Margery Sabin[electronic resource]1st ed.New York ;Oxford University Press,2023.1 online resource (250 p.)Oxford scholarship onlinePreviously issued in print: 2002.0-19-515018-X 0-19-515017-1 Includes bibliographical references 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 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.Oxford scholarship online.English literatureHistory and criticismAnglo-Indian literatureHistory and criticismIndic literature (English)History and criticismIndiaIn literatureEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.Anglo-Indian literatureHistory and criticism.Indic literature (English)History and criticism.820.9/3254Sabin Margery1940-1667815IeDuTCUkStDuBDSZStDuBDSZBOOK9910809672803321Dissenters and mavericks4027923UNINA