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Dissenters and mavericks [[electronic resource] ] : writings about India in English, 1765-2000 / / Margery Sabin



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Autore: Sabin Margery <1940-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Dissenters and mavericks [[electronic resource] ] : writings about India in English, 1765-2000 / / Margery Sabin Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2002
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (250 p.)
Disciplina: 820.9/3254
Soggetto topico: English literature - History and criticism
Anglo-Indian literature - History and criticism
Indic literature (English) - History and criticism
Imperialism in literature
Postcolonialism - India
Soggetto geografico: India In literature
India Foreign public opinion, British
Great Britain Relations India
India Relations Great Britain
India Historiography
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-232) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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;
Sommario/riassunto: This 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Dissenters and mavericks  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-53237-8
0-19-534870-2
1-4294-0334-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910451433003321
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