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020 _a9780230233393 (hardback)
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040 _aAliah University
_cAU
_beng
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_a820.935854
_bRUD/S
100 1 _aRudd, Andrew
_d1979-
_97510
245 1 0 _aSympathy and India in British literature, 1770-1830
_cAndrew Rudd
260 _aHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;
_aNew York :
_bPalgrave Macmillan,
_cc2011.
300 _ax, 216 p.
_bill.
_c23 cm
490 0 _aPalgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 _aMachine generated contents note: -- Preface and acknowledgements -- List of illustrations -- Introduction -- Edmund Burke and the Trial of Warren Hastings -- Sir William Jones and the Asiatic Society of Bengal -- Sensibility in a Hot Climate: Literary Culture in Late Eighteenth-Century Calcutta -- The Apostasy of British Orientalism: Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgans The Missionary, Southeys The Curse of Kehama and Maturins Melmoth the Wanderer -- Oriental versus Orientalist Poetry: The Debate in Romantic Period Literary Criticism -- Epilogue: Orientalism under Pressure -- Bibliography -- Index.
520 _a"India exerted a powerful grip over the imagination of British authors during the Romantic period. But what was the true nature of their engagement with the Subcontinent? This study argues that depictions of India had to come to terms with India's strangeness and distance from Britain, as well as the aesthetic requirements of European culture"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aEnglish literature
_y18th century
_xHistory and criticism.
_97511
650 0 _aEnglish literature
_y19th century
_xHistory and criticism.
_97512
650 0 _aOrientalism in literature.
_97513
651 0 _aIndia
_xIn literature.
_97309
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_cBOOKS ENG
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