| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 208 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 18 |
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Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 18.
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| Contents |
Introduction : aesthetic negotiations -- Marvelous difficulty, 1600-1720 -- The social monstrous, 1600-1720 -- The imperial sublime, 1750-1820 -- The missionary picturesque, 1790-1860 -- The sporting luxuriant, 1850-1920 |
| Summary |
"This book explores the formations and configurations of British colonial discourse on India through a reading of prose narratives of the 1600-1920 period. Arguing that colonial discourse often relied on aesthetic devices in order to describe and assert a degree of narrative control over Indian landscape, Pramod Nayar demonstrates how aesthetics furnished both a vocabulary and representational modes for the British to construct particular images of India. Aesthetics helped not only to describe the landscape, but also to discursively 'prepare' it for colonial projects and intervention. Aesthetics was thus a crucial anterior moment in the rhetoric of colonial India - it narrated, and it colonized."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-206) and index |
| Notes |
Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
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Print version record |
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English literature -- History and criticism.
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Authors, English -- Aesthetics.
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National characteristics, English, in literature.
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Imperialism in literature.
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Colonies in literature.
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Exoticism in literature.
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Authors, English -- Aesthetics
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Colonies in literature
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English literature
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Exoticism in literature
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Imperialism in literature
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Literature
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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National characteristics, English, in literature
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| SUBJECT |
India -- In literature
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| Subject |
India
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203931004 |
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0203931009 |
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9781134131495 |
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1134131496 |
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