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British India and Victorian Literary Culture (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture)

by Màire ni Fhlathúin
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781474426039
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: English Literature
  • Publisher: Edinburgh UP
  • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 272
  • Original Price: GBP 28.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 348 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Books & Reading

About the Book British India and Victorian Literary Culture extends current scholarship on the Victorian period with a wide-ranging and innovative analysis of the literature of British India. The book traces the development of British Indian literature from the early days of the nineteenth century through the Victorian period. Previously unstudied poems and essays drawn from the thriving periodicals culture of British India are examined alongside novels and travel-writing by authors including Emma Roberts, Philip Meadows Taylor and Rudyard Kipling. Key events and concerns of Victorian India - the legacy of the Hastings impeachment, the Indian 'Mutiny', the sati controversy, the rise of Bengal nationalism - are re-assessed within a dual literary and political context, emphasising the engagement of British writers with canonical British literature (Scott, Byron) as well as the mythology and historiography of India and their own responses to their immediate surroundings. N� Fhlath�in examines representations of the experience of being in India, in chapters on the poetry and prose of exile, and the dynamics of consumption. She also analyses colonial representations of the landscape and societies of India itself, in chapters on the figure of the bandit / hero, female agency and self-sacrifice, and the use of historiography to enlist indigenous narratives in the project of Empire.

  • Description and analysis of the literary marketplace and periodical press, both previously neglected
  • Reassessment of some works of Kipling in the context of a long-standing literary tradition of British India
  • New analysis of the interactions of metropolitan and colonial literary cultures, and the impact of canonical texts on peripheral marketplaces
  • Examination of Victorian concepts of the colonial relationship in the light of both important writers of British India (Kipling, Meadow Taylor) and others previously unstudied
M�ire n� Fhlath�in is Associate Professor in English Literature at the University of Nottingham.

Ni Fhlathúin, Máire: - Máire ni Fhlathúin is a Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Nottingham.

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