English Siege and Prison Writings - From the Black Hole to the Mutiny

Informationen zum Autor Pramod K. Nayar teaches in the Department of English at the University of Hyderabad, India. His most recent books include The Indian Graphic Novel: Nation, History and Critique (Routledge, 2016), The Transnational in English Literature: Shakespeare to the Modern (Routledge, 2015), the edited Postcolonial Studies: An Anthology (2015) and the Postcolonial Studies Dictionary (2015). A book on human rights and literature and an edited five-volume collection Indian Travel Writing, 1830–1947 are forthcoming, besides essays on celebrity studies, graphic biographies and colonial etiquette books. Zusammenfassung This volume brings together an unusual collection of British captivity writings — composed during and after imprisonment and in conditions of siege. There exists a vast body of texts, from Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Burma, and the Indian subcontinent, that have rarely been compiled or examined, until now. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction 1 An historical relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies (1681) ROBERT KNOX 2 A genuine narrative of the deaths of English gentlemen (1764) J.Z. HOLWELL 3 Personal narrative of two years’ imprisonment in Burmah (1860) HENRY GOUGER 4 A journal of the disasters in Afghanistan (1843) LADY [FLORENTIA] SALE 5 The military operations at Cabul (1843) VINCENT EYRE 6 From the Calcutta Gazette (1791) WILLIAM DRAKE 7 A narrative of the sufferings of James Bristow (1793) JAMES BRISTOW 8 A narrative of the military operations on the Coromandel Coast (1789) INNES MUNRO 9 The captivity, sufferings and escape of James Scurry (1824) JAMES SCURRY 10 An authentic account of the treatment of English prisoners (1785) HENRY OAKES 11 Siege of Lucknow: a diary (1892) LADY [JULIA] INGLIS ...

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• Authors: Pramod K. Nayar, Pramod K. (University of Hyderabad Nayar
• Assisted by: Pramod K. Nayar (Editor), Nayar Pramod K. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9780367279554
• ISBN: 978-0-367-27955-4
• No. of pages: 370
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Diaries, letters & journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Society & culture: general, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, Asian History, Society and culture: general, Diaries, letters and journals, Regional Geography, Indian sub-continent, South Asia (Indian sub-continent), HISTORY / Asia / South / General