LEADER 03240nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910451433003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-53237-8 010 $a0-19-534870-2 010 $a1-4294-0334-9 035 $a(CKB)1000000000406386 035 $a(EBL)281294 035 $a(OCoLC)191935615 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000140047 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11137175 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000140047 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10029274 035 $a(PQKB)10670904 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC281294 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL281294 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10142456 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL53237 035 $a(OCoLC)935262239 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000406386 100 $a20020329d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDissenters and mavericks$b[electronic resource] $ewritings about India in English, 1765-2000 /$fMargery Sabin 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2002 215 $a1 online resource (250 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-515018-X 311 $a0-19-515017-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 221-232) and index. 327 $aContents; 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; 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAnglo-Indian literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aIndic literature (English)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aImperialism in literature 606 $aPostcolonialism$zIndia 607 $aIndia$xIn literature 607 $aIndia$xForeign public opinion, British 607 $aGreat Britain$xRelations$zIndia 607 $aIndia$xRelations$zGreat Britain 607 $aIndia$xHistoriography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAnglo-Indian literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aIndic literature (English)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aImperialism in literature. 615 0$aPostcolonialism 676 $a820.9/3254 700 $aSabin$b Margery$f1940-$0902699 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451433003321 996 $aDissenters and mavericks$92017972 997 $aUNINA