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British India and Victorian Literary Culture
Máire Ni Fhlathúin
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Description for British India and Victorian Literary Culture
Hardback. The book traces the development of British Indian literature from the early days of the 19th century through the Victorian period. Previously unstudied poems and essays drawn from the thriving periodicals culture of British India are examined alongside novels and travel-writing by authors including Emma Roberts and Philip Meadows Taylor. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
The book traces the development of British Indian literature from the early days of the 19th century through the Victorian period. Previously unstudied poems and essays drawn from the thriving periodicals culture of British India are examined alongside novels and travel-writing by authors including Emma Roberts, Philip Meadows Taylor and Rudyard Kipling. Key events and concerns of Victorian India - the legacy of the Hastings impeachment, the Indian 'Mutiny', the sati controversy, the rise of Bengal nationalism - are re-assessed within a dual literary and political context, emphasising the engagement of British writers with canonical British literature (Scott, Byron) as ... Read more
The book traces the development of British Indian literature from the early days of the 19th century through the Victorian period. Previously unstudied poems and essays drawn from the thriving periodicals culture of British India are examined alongside novels and travel-writing by authors including Emma Roberts, Philip Meadows Taylor and Rudyard Kipling. Key events and concerns of Victorian India - the legacy of the Hastings impeachment, the Indian 'Mutiny', the sati controversy, the rise of Bengal nationalism - are re-assessed within a dual literary and political context, emphasising the engagement of British writers with canonical British literature (Scott, Byron) as ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748640683
SKU
V9780748640683
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About Máire Ni Fhlathúin
Maire ni Fhlathtuin is Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Nottingham.
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