Chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Discoveries, encounters, spectacles: colonial beginnings -- chapter 2 The English nabobs: eighteenth-century Orientalism -- chapter 3 The gendering of empire -- chapter 4 Shakespeare and the "civilizing mission" -- chapter 5 The Blind Age: discovering a postcolonial nation
Summary
Annotation Using Shakespeare as a case in point, this book shows how the study of English Literature was implicated in the ideology of the empires in colonies such as India. The author argues that these studies promote western culture
