Dissenters and mavericks : writings about India in English, 1765-2000 /

Dissenters and mavericks : writings about India in English, 1765-2000 /

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Author / Creator: Sabin, Margery, 1940-
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
English literature > History and criticism.
English literature.
Postcolonialism.
Relations.
Anglo-Indian literature > History and criticism.
Anglo-Indian literature.
Indic literature (English) > History and criticism.
Indic literature (English)
Imperialism in literature.
Postcolonialism > India.
Historiography.
India > In literature.
India.
India > Foreign public opinion, British.
Great Britain > Relations > India.
India > Relations > Great Britain.
India > Historiography.
Great Britain.
Retention:Retained for Eastern Academic Scholars' Trust (EAST) http://eastlibraries.org/retained-materials
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Dissenters and Mavericks
  • 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 1950s
  • 7. Individuality as a Problem in Naipaul's Indian Narratives
  • 8. Epilogue: Pankaj Mishra and Postcolonial Cosmopolitanism
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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