02540nam 2200601 450 991080993530332120230126211902.00-7391-8001-0(CKB)3710000000107240(EBL)1684211(SSID)ssj0001195475(PQKBManifestationID)11805559(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001195475(PQKBWorkID)11161694(PQKB)10976062(MiAaPQ)EBC1684211(Au-PeEL)EBL1684211(CaPaEBR)ebr10867924(CaONFJC)MIL604684(OCoLC)879550967(EXLCZ)99371000000010724020140516h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe French colonial imagination writing the Indian uprisings, 1858-1859, from second Empire to third Republic /Nicola FrithLanham, Maryland :Lexington Books,2014.©20141 online resource (228 p.)After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial FranceDescription based upon print version of record.0-7391-8000-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.The French Colonial Imagination examines France's critical response to the Indian uprisings of 1857-58 and their brutal suppression by the British. Drawing from texts produced during the Second Empire and the early Third Republic, Nicola Frith foregrounds the extent to which British India acted as a counter-narrative in the construction of France's rival colonial discourse and its emerging "civilizing mission" alongside France's persistent desire to compensate for its "loss" of India at the end of the Napoleonic Wars. </After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial FranceFrench prose literature19th centuryHistory and criticismColonialism in literatureImperialismSocial aspectsFranceIndiaHistorySepoy Rebellion, 1857-1858French prose literatureHistory and criticism.Colonialism in literature.ImperialismSocial aspects840.9/3358Frith Nicola1974-1597456MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809935303321The French colonial imagination4061842UNINA