Indian angles
Subtitle: English verse in colonial India from Jones to Tagore
By: Mary Ellis Gibson
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780821419410; 9780821443583
Subjects: Indic poetry (English); Colonies in literature; History and criticism; In literature; Anglo-Indian poetry
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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.