Anxieties of Empire and the Fiction of Intrigue
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: December 5, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780231138086
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; 19th Century Literature - History And Criticism; Literary History And Criticism; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Sociology; English; ASIA; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Asian - General; General; 19th century; 20th century; English fiction; History and criticism; South Asian authors
Description: "Drawing on the work of leading theorists of imperialism, Yumna Siddiqi reveals how British writers express the anxious workings of a will to maintain imperial power in their writing. She also illuminates the ways South Asian writers portray the paradoxes of postcolonial modernity and trace the ruses and uses of reason in a world where the modern marks a horizon not only of hope but also of economic, military, and ecological disaster."--BOOK JACKET.