English writing and India, 1600-1920
Subtitle: colonizing aesthetics
By: Pramod K. Nayar.
Series: Postcolonial literatures -- 18
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415409193
Subjects: English literature -- History and criticism; Authors, English -- Aesthetics; National characteristics, English, in literature; Imperialism in literature; Colonies in literature; Exoticism in literature; Narration (Rhetoric); India -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: aesthetic negotiations; title: Marvelous difficulty, 1600-1720; title: The social monstrous, 1600-1720; title: The imperial sublime, 1750-1820; title: The missionary picturesque, 1790-1860; title: The sporting luxuriant, 1850-1920.