Under western eyes : India from Milton to Macaulay
Analysis of the consolidation of British imperialist discourse about India from the seventeenth century to the 1830s. This book tracks this imperial presence through a range of literary and ideological sites. It gives postcolonial thought a historical dimension and places literary history in a different perspective through postcolonial readings.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
267 pages ; 24 cm
9780822322795, 9780822322986, 9780195649178, 082232279X, 0822322986, 0195649176
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The Lusiads and the Asian reader
Banyan trees and fig leaves : some thoughts on Milton's India
Appropriating India : Dryden's great Mogul
James Mill and the case of the Hottentot Venus
Hegel's India and the surprise of sin
Feminizing the feminine : early women writers on India
Monstrous mythologies : Southey and The Curse of Kehama
Understanding Asia : Shelley's Prometheus unbound
Macaulay : the moment and the minute