Under Western Eyes - India from Milton to Macaulay

"Under Western Eyes" is a learned, sophisticated, often brilliant analysis of the consolidation of English imperialist discourse about India from the earliest stages of the East India Company through the 1830s."--Patrick Brantlinger, Indiana University

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.

Product details

• Authors: Balachandra Rajan
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.04.1999
• EAN: 9780822322986
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2298-6
• No. of pages: 280
• Weight: 503 g
• Series: Post-Contemporary Intervention
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literature - Classics / Criticism