Before the Raj - Writing Early Anglophone India

"Recovering a rich archive of ephemera, author Mulholland studies anglophone writers of British colonial India in the eighteenth century, the era of the East India Company. He shows how regional, rather than exclusively British, newspapers served as a major site for Anglo-Indian literary culture. In the regular poetry sections of these newspapers, writers adapted Anglophone literature to their own geographical politics and social circumstances"--

About the author

James Mulholland is an assistant professor of English at North Carolina State University.

Summary

Revealing the vibrant literary culture that existed long before the characters of Rudyard Kipling's best-known works, Before the Raj reveals how these writers operated within a web of colonial cities and trading outposts that borrowed from one another and produced vital interlinked aesthetics.

Product details

• Authors: James Mulholland, James (Assistant Professor Mulholland, Mulholland James
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781421439617
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-3961-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; European History, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 18th Century, Literature: history & criticism, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Asian History, African History, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, HISTORY / Asia / South / General