| Description |
1 online resource (225 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures |
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Routledge research in postcolonial literatures.
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| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction Aesthetic negotiations; 1 Marvellous difficulty, 1600-1720; 2 The social monstrous, 1600-1720; 3 The imperial sublime, 1750-1820; 4 The missionary picturesque, 1790-1860; 5 The sporting luxuriant, 1850-1920; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| 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 a vocabulary and representational modes for the British to construct particular images of India. Looking specifically at the aesthetic modes of the marvellous, the monstrous, the sublime, the picturesque and the luxuriant, Nayar marks the shif |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203931004 |
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0203931009 |
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