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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| Idioma: | anglès |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
[2019]
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| Col·lecció: | Cambridge studies in Romanticism.
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| Accés en línia: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2112103 |
Taula de continguts:
- 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.