War of no pity
Subtitle: the Indian Mutiny and Victorian trauma
By: Christopher Herbert
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780691133324
Subjects: English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Polemics in literature; India -- History -- Sepoy Rebellion, 1857-1858 -- Literature and the rebellion; India -- History -- Sepoy Rebellion, 1857-1858 -- Historiography; India -- History -- Sepoy Rebellion, 1857-1858 -- Public opinion; India -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-316) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Jingoism, warmongering, racism; title: Diabolical possession and the national conscience; title: Three parables of violence; title: The culture of retribution: capital punishment, Maurice Dering, Flotsam; title: The mutiny in Victorian historiography; title: The infernal kingdom of A tale of two cities; title: Lady Audley's secret: the mutiny, the gothic, and the feminine; title: Epilogue: Fiction fair and foul: novels of the mutiny