LEADER 03106nam 2200721un 450 001 9910809672803321 005 20240410131451.0 010 $a0-19-772376-4 010 $a1-280-53237-8 010 $a0-19-534870-2 010 $a1-4294-0334-9 024 7 $a10.1093/oso/9780195150179.001.0001 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(Au-PeEL)EBL281294 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10142456 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL53237 035 $a(OCoLC)935262239 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC281294 035 $a(OCoLC)1406784290 035 $a(StDuBDS)9780197723760 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000406386 100 $a20030331e20232002 |y | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDissenters and mavericks $ewritings about India in English, 1765-2000 /$fMargery Sabin$b[electronic resource] 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aNew York ;$cOxford University Press,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (250 p.) 225 1 $aOxford scholarship online 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2002. 311 $a0-19-515018-X 311 $a0-19-515017-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references 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 8 $aThis study reinstates the author to the centre of the relationship between literature and history. It explores the tension between discourse analysis and literary criticism, then discusses writers who have achieved a measure of freedom from the limitations of their historical moments. 410 0$aOxford scholarship online. 606 $aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAnglo-Indian literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aIndic literature (English)$xHistory and criticism 607 $aIndia$xIn literature 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAnglo-Indian literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aIndic literature (English)$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a820.9/3254 700 $aSabin$b Margery$f1940-$01667815 801 0$bIeDuTC 801 2$bUk 801 2$bStDuBDSZ 801 2$bStDuBDSZ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809672803321 996 $aDissenters and mavericks$94027923 997 $aUNINA