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Zusatztext Michael Franklin has written an engaging, sympathetic, and definitive new scholarly biography of the first great British orientalist, Sir William Jones ... an impressive achievement Informationen zum Autor Michael J. Franklin is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Swansea University. His main current area of interest is the study of colonial representations of India and their various interfaces with Romanticism, and he has published widely on this subject and on the work of Sir William Jones, including the critical biography Sir William Jones (1995), and (as editor)Sir William Jones: Selected Poetical and Prose Works (1995), Representing India: Indian Culture and Imperial Control (2000), and The European Discovery of India: Key Indological Sources of Romanticism (2001). His most recent books are an edited collection of essays, Romantic Representations of British India (2006), and a scholarly edition of Phebe Gibbes, Hartly House, Calcutta (2007), also published by Oxford University Press. Klappentext A major new biography of Sir William Jones (1746-94), the foremost Orientalist of his generation and one of the greatest intellectual navigators of all time. Jones's Sanskrit researches marked the beginning of Indo-European comparative grammar, and modern comparative-historical linguistics, of Indology, and the disciplines of comparative literature, philology, mythology, and law. He did more than any other writer to destroy Eurocentric prejudice, reshaping Western perceptions of India and the Orient. His commitment to the translation of culture, a multiculturalism fascinated as much by similitude as difference, profoundly influenced European and British Romanticism, offering the West disconcerting new relationships and disorienting orientations. Remembered with great affection throughout the subcontinent as a man who facilitated India's cultural assimilation into the modern world, Jones helped to build India's future on the immensity, sophistication, and pluralism of its past. Zusammenfassung A major new critical biography of Sir William Jones (1746-94), the foremost Orientalist of his generation and one of the greatest intellectual navigators of all time, whose Sanskrit researches did more than any other writer to destroy Eurocentric prejudice, reshaping Western perceptions of India and the Orient. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1: Claiming Kin in Calcutta: Jones discovers the Indo-European family of languages 2: Persian Jones, London Welshman, surveys his roots 3: Druid Jones on the Carmarthen Circuit: Radicalization and Recreation on the Celtic Fringe 4: Impressive Patrons and Impressing Mariners 5: Republican Jones and the Poetry of Politics: Fragments of Liberty 6: Knowing India: Asiatic Researches/Recreations 7: Europe Falls in Love with Sakuntala 8: Life and Death in Calcutta: A Courtroom View of the Ethics of Empire 9: 'Indo-Persian' Jones and Indian Pluralism Select Bibliography Index ...
