LEADER 03889nam 22005895 450 001 9910255086203321 005 20230810192022.0 010 $a3-319-62334-6 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-62334-4 035 $a(CKB)4100000001040728 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-62334-4 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5143920 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000001040728 100 $a20171110d2017 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aIndia in the American Imaginary, 1780s?1880s /$fedited by Anupama Arora, Rajender Kaur 205 $a1st ed. 2017. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (XXIII, 292 p. 5 illus.) 225 1 $aThe New Urban Atlantic 311 $a3-319-62333-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1 Introduction: India in the American Imaginary, 1780s-1880s -- 2 An Eye for Prices, an Eye for Souls: American Merchants and Missionaries in the Indian Subcontinent, 1784-1838 -- 3 The Empire Comes Home: Thomas Law?s Mixed Race Family in the Early Republic -- 4 Indo-American Encounters in Melville and Thoreau: Philosophy, Commerce, and Religious Dialogue -- 5 ?Every India Mail:? The Lamplighter and the Prospect of U.S. Transoceanic (Postal) Empire, 1847-1854 -- 6 Cast in Print: The Indian Mutiny, Asiatic Racial Forms and American Domesticity -- 7 India and U.S. Cultures of Reform: Caste as Keyword -- 8 ?Considered a Citizen of the United States:? George DeGrasse, a South Asian in Early (African) America -- 9 ?A Dazzle of Light:? Edwin Lord Weeks and Royal India. 330 $aThis book seeks to frame the ?the idea of India? in the American imaginary within a transnational lens that is attentive to global flows of goods, people, and ideas within the circuits of imperial and maritime economies in nineteenth century America (roughly 1780s-1880s). This diverse and interdisciplinary volume ? with essays by upcoming as well as established scholars ? aims to add to an understanding of the fast changing terrain of economic, political, and cultural life in the US as it emerged from being a British colony to having imperial ambitions of its own on the global stage. The essays trace, variously, the evolution of the changing self-image of a nation embodying a surprisingly cosmopolitan sensibility, open to different cultural values and customs in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century to one that slowly adopted rigid and discriminatory racial and cultural attitudes spawned by the widespread missionary activities of the ABCFM and the fierce economic pulls and pushes of American mercantilism by the end of the nineteenth century. The different uses of India become a way of refining an American national identity. 410 0$aThe New Urban Atlantic 606 $aLiterature 606 $aComparative literature 606 $aLiterature, Modern$x19th century 606 $aOriental literature 606 $aWorld Literature 606 $aComparative Literature 606 $aNineteenth-Century Literature 606 $aAsian Literature 615 0$aLiterature. 615 0$aComparative literature. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$x19th century. 615 0$aOriental literature. 615 14$aWorld Literature. 615 24$aComparative Literature. 615 24$aNineteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aAsian Literature. 676 $a809 702 $aArora$b Anupama$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aKaur$b Rajender$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910255086203321 996 $aIndia in the American Imaginary, 1780s?1880s$92536811 997 $aUNINA