Under Western Eyes - India from Milton to Macaulay

Analysis of the consolidation of British imperialist discourse about India from the seventeenth century to the 1830s.

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Preliminary Navigations

1. The Lusiads and the Asian Reader

2. Banyan Trees and Fig Leaves: Some thoughts on Milton's India

3. Appropriating India: Dryden's Great Mogul

4. James Mill and the Caes of the Hottentot Venus

5. Hegel's India and the Surprise of Sin

6. Feminizing the Feminine: Early Women Writers on India

7. Monstrous Mythologies: Southey and the Curse of Kehama

8. Understanding Asia: Shelley's Prometheus Unbound

9. Macaulay: The Moment and the Minute

Afterword: From Center to Circumference

Notes

Index

About the author

Balachandra Rajan is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Western Ontario. He has written numerous scholarly books, including The Form of the Unfinished: English Poetics from Spenser to Pound and two novels.

Summary

Spanning nearly two and a half centuries of English literature about India, this book traces the development of an imperial discourse that governed the English view of India well into the twentieth century. It narrates this history from its Reformation beginnings to its Victorian consolidation.

Product details

• Authors: Balachandra Rajan, Rajan, Balachandra Rajan
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.04.1999
• EAN: 9780822322795
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2279-5
• No. of pages: 280
• Weight: 630 g
• Series: Post-Contemporary Intervention; Post-Contemporary Intervention
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Englisch, Indien, Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein