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

• Autore: Sabin Margery <1940->
• 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
• 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
• ISBN: 0-19-772376-4; 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.: 9910784705903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II