Civility and Empire - Literature and Culture in British India, 1821-1921

This book addresses the idea of 'civility' as a manifestation of the fluidity and ambivalence of imperial power as reflected in British colonial literature and culture. Discussions of Anglo-Indian romances of 1880-1900, E.M. Forster's The Life to Come and Leonard Woolf's writings show how the appeal to civility had a significant effect on the constitution of colonial subject-hood and reveals 'civility' as an ideal trope for the ambivalence of imperial power itself.

Sommario

1. Colonial Civility and the Regulation of Social Desire 2. Writing the Liberal Self in John Stuart Mill: Colonial Civility and Disciplinary Regime 3. Policing the Boubdaries: Civility and Gender in the Anglo-Indian Romances, 1880-1900 4. 'Savage Pursuit': Missionary Civility and Colonization in E. M. Forster's The Life to Come 5. Civility and the Colonial Body/State in Leonard Woolf

Info autore

Anindyo Roy is Associate Professor in English at Colby College, Maine, USA, where he teaches critical and postcolonial theory, and postcolonial and modern British literature.

Riassunto

This book addresses the idea of 'civility' as a manifestation of the fluidity and ambivalence of imperial power as reflected in British colonial literature and culture. Discussions of Anglo-Indian romances of 1880-1900, E.M. Forster's The Life to Come and Leonard Woolf's writings show how the appeal to civility had a significant effect on the constitution of colonial subject-hood and reveals 'civility' as an ideal trope for the ambivalence of imperial power itself.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Anindyo Roy, Roy Anindyo
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 12.09.2014
• EAN: 9780415646666
• ISBN: 978-0-415-64666-6
• Pagine: 224
• Serie: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures; Routledge Research in Postcolo; Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures; Routledge Research in Postcolo
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: postcolonial literature