British orientalisms, 1759-1835 /

"In 1761 Richard Owen Cambridge published An Account of the War in India, telling the story of a decade of conflict between British and French forces in the south of the sub-continent. While this work says nothing about the 1757 battle of Plassey and the subsequent revolution that lead to the E...

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主要作者: Watt, James (Author)
格式: Licensed eBooks
語言:英语
出版: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2019]
叢編:Cambridge studies in Romanticism.
在線閱讀:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2112103
書本目錄:
  • Introduction: Britain, empire, and 'openness' to the East
  • 'Those islanders' : British orientalisms and the Seven Years' War
  • 'Indian details' : fictions of British India, 1774-1789
  • 'All Asia is covered in prisons' : Oriental despotism and British liberty in an age of revolutions
  • 'In love with the Gopia' : Sir William Jones and his contemporaries
  • 'Imperial dotage' and poetic ornament in romantic orientalist verse narrative
  • Cockney translation : Leigh Hunt and Charles Lamb's eastern imaginings
  • 'It is otherwise in Asia' : 'character' and improvement in picaresque fiction
  • Conclusion: British orientalisms, empire, and improvement.