British women writers and the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1785-1835 : re-orienting Anglo-India /
Freeman, Kathryn S.,1958-author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Asiatic Society of Bengal: "beyond the stretch of labouring thought sublime" -- "Out of that narrow and contracted path": creativity and authority in Elizabeth Hamilton's translations of the letters of a Hindoo rajah -- Confronting sacrrifice, resisting the sentimental: sensibility, imperialism, and romantic masculinity in the Anglo-Indian novels of Phebe Gibbes and Sidney Owenson -- Female authorship in the Anglo-Indian meta-drama of Mariana Starke's The sword of peace (1788) and The widow of Malabar (1791) -- Epilogue: Lost and found in translation: re-orienting the revolutionary period through women writers in early Anglo-India.
Asiatic Society of Bengal.
English literature
English literature
English literature
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Orientalism in literature.