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Indian angles : English verse in colonial India from Jones to Tagore /
In Indian Angles, Mary Ellis Gibson provides a new historical approach to Indian English literature. Gibson shows that poetry, not fiction, was the dominant literary genre of Indian writing in English until 1860 and that poetry written in colonial situations can tell us as much or even more about fi...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Athens :
Ohio University Press,
©2011.
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| Series: | Series in Victorian Studies.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part One. Languages, tropes, and landscape in the beginnings of English language poetry: Contact poetics in eighteenth-century Calcutta: Sir William Jones, John Horsford, and Anna Maria; Bards and sybils: landscape, gender, and the culture of dispute in the poems of H.L.V. Derozio and Emma Roberts
- Part two. The institutions of colonial mimesis, 1830/1857: Books, reading, and the profession of letters: David Lester Richardson and the construction of a British canon in India; sighing, or not, for albion: Kasiprasad Ghosh, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, and Mary Carshore
- Part three. Nationalisms, religion, and aestheticism in the late nineteenth century: From Christian piety to cosmopolitan nationalisms: the Dutt family album and the poems of Mary E. Leslie and Toru Dutt; cosmopolitanism, nationalism, and aestheticism in fin-de-siècle London: Manmohan Ghose, Sarojini Naidu, and Rabindranath Tagore.