English Writing and India, 1600-1920 - Colonizing Aesthetics

Informationen zum Autor Pramod K. Nayar Klappentext First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung Explores the formations and configurations of British colonial discourse on India through a reading of prose narratives of the 1600-1920 period. This work argues that colonial discourse often relied on aesthetic devices in order to describe and assert a degree of narrative control over Indian landscape. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction: Aesthetic Negotiations Chapter 1: Marvelous Difficulty, 1600-1720 Chapter 2: The Social Monstrous, 1600-1720 Chapter 3: The Imperial Sublime, 1750-1820 Chapter 4: The Missionary Picturesque, 1790-1860 Chapter 5: The Sporting Luxuriant, 1850-1920 Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Pramod K. Nayar, Pramod (University of Hyderabad K. Nayar
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.09.2007
• EAN: 9780415409193
• ISBN: 978-0-415-40919-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, National liberation and independence, Literary studies: postcolonial literature