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Before the raj : writing early Anglophone India /

Revealing the vibrant literary culture that existed long before the characters of Rudyard Kipling's best-known works, Before the Raj reveals how these writers operated within a web of colonial cities and trading outposts that borrowed from one another and produced vital interlinked aesthetics.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mulholland, James, 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Spelling and Usage
  • Introduction: Translocal Anglo-India
  • Translocal Regionalism in Anglo-India
  • Oceanic to Regional
  • Middle Reading
  • Bad Writing, Normal Literature, Boring Things
  • 1. A Cultural Company-State and the Colonial Public Sphere
  • Why Now? 1765-1819
  • Who Were the Anglo-Indians?
  • Printers, Patrons, Readers, and Libraries
  • Sponsorship and Censorship
  • Making a Colonial Public Sphere
  • 2. Newspaper Poetry and Reading Publics in Eighteenth-Century India
  • Poetry and the Business of Newspapers
  • Multilingual Reading Publics
  • Punch Houses, Hookahs, and Cheroots
  • Literature's Infrastructure and the History of Conventional Forms
  • 3. The Vagrant Muse: Making Reputation across Eurasia
  • Reading Charlotte Smith in Canton
  • Parnassus in Madras
  • Ruins, Relics, and the Near Eastern Past
  • Collaboration and Interimperial Assemblages
  • 4. Undoing Britain in Bengal
  • A "British Brahma": Sir William Jones and the Politics of Translocalism
  • Rediscovering Liberty
  • A Della Cruscan in Calcutta
  • Forgetting Asia
  • 5. Tristram Shandy in Bombay
  • Metropolitical Empire
  • Oriental Traits
  • Rewriting Tristram Shandy in Bombay
  • "Children of the Sun"
  • 6. Agonies of Empire: Captivity Narratives and the Mysore Wars, 1767-1799
  • Mercenaries of Imperial Emotion and the Spectacle of the Jailed Author
  • Prison Poetry and Antiwar Sentiments
  • The Dancing Boys of Mysore
  • Captivity as Social Regeneration
  • 7. Literary Culture of Colonial Outposts: Penang, Sumatra, and Java, 1771-1816
  • The Bay of Bengal and the Geography of "Greater India"
  • Outpost Aesthetics: William Marsden in Sumatra
  • Multilingualism in the Java Government Gazette (1812-16)
  • The "Samarang Hurly-Burly"
  • Imitation in Early Nineteenth-Century Java
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.