Sympathy and India in British literature, 1770-1830 [electronic resource]

• 作者： Rudd, Andrew, 1979-
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• 出版： New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• 叢書名： Palgrave studies in the enlightenment, romanticism and the cultures of print
• 主題： English literature--18th century--History and criticism. , English literature--19th century--History and criticism. , Orientalism in literature. , India--In literature. , LITERARY CRITICISM--Asian--General. , LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. , Literary Criticism--General. , India--In literature , Electronic books.
• ISBN： 9780230306004 (electronic bk.) 、 0230306004 (electronic bk.) 、 9780230233393 (Cloth) 、 0230233392 (Cloth) 、 1283124548 、 9781283124546
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• 資料類型: 電子書
• 內容註: Includes bibliographical references and index. List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Edmund Burke and the Trial of Warren Hastings -- 'No less pious than sublime': the Sympathetic Vision of Sir William Jones -- Sympathy in a Hot Climate: British and Indian Subjects at the turn of the century -- Gothic Sympathy and Missionary Writing -- 'Oriental' versus 'Orientalist' Poetry: the Debate in Romantic Period Literary Criticism -- Epilogue: Orientalism under Pressure.
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• 摘要註: India was the object of intense sympathetic concern during the Romantic period. But what was the true nature of imaginative engagement with British India in the seminal years between 1770 and 1830? This innovative new study explores how a range of authors, from Edmund Burke and Sir William Jones to Robert Southey and Thomas Moore, sought to come to terms with India's strangeness, mystique and sheer geographical distance from Britain. This book explores the contradictions and complexities entailed in the colonial encounter, which it argues were mediated through imaginative sympathy and the related discourses of sensibility and sentimentalism. It offers specialists and the general reader alike a distinctive retelling of Britain's dealings with India and draws on recent critical interest in sympathy, colonialism and Romantic Orientalism. "India exerted a powerful grip over the imagination of British authors during the Romantic period. But what was the true nature of their engagement with the Subcontinent? This study argues that depictions of India had to come to terms with India's strangeness and distance from Britain, as well as the aesthetic requirements of European culture"--
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