Sympathy and India in British Literature, 1770-1830

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-349-31342-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 293 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print

India was the object of intense sympathetic concern during the Romantic period. But what was the true nature of imaginative engagement with British India? This study explores how a range of authors, from Edmund Burke and Sir William Jones to Robert Southey and Thomas Moore, sought to come to terms with India's strangeness and distance from Britain.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rudd, A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Edmund Burke and the Trial of Warren Hastings 'No less pious than sublime': the Sympathetic Vision of Sir William Jones Sympathy in a Hot Climate: British and Indian Subjects at the turn of the century Gothic Sympathy and Missionary Writing 'Oriental' versus 'Orientalist' Poetry: the Debate in Romantic Period Literary Criticism Epilogue: Orientalism under Pressure Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

ANDREW RUDD Teaches English literature at the Open University, UK. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge.