Sympathy and India in British Literature, 1770-1830 [electronic resource] /
Rudd, A.author.
India was the object of intense sympathetic concern during the Romantic period. But what was the true nature of imaginative engagement with British India? This 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 and distance from Britain.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Preface and acknowledgements -- List of illustrations -- Introduction -- Edmund Burke and the Trial of Warren Hastings -- Sir William Jones and the Asiatic Society of Bengal -- Sensibility in a Hot Climate: Literary Culture in Late Eighteenth-Century Calcutta -- The Apostasy of British Orientalism: Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgans The Missionary, Southeys The Curse of Kehama and Maturins Melmoth the Wanderer -- Oriental versus Orientalist Poetry: The Debate in Romantic Period Literary Criticism -- Epilogue: Orientalism under Pressure -- Bibliography -- Index.
India was the object of intense sympathetic concern during the Romantic period. But what was the true nature of imaginative engagement with British India? This 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 and distance from Britain.
Literature, Modern.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
Great Britain—History.
Asia—History.
Imperialism.
History, Modern.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Asian History.
Imperialism and Colonialism.
Modern History.