War of No Pity
Subtitle: The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: November 12, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780691133324
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900; Literary studies: 19th century; Mutiny; c 1800 to c 1900; 19th Century Literature - History And Criticism; Literary History And Criticism; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; India; Asia - India & South Asia; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Europe - Great Britain - General; Comparative Literature; 19th century; English literature; Great Britain; History; History and criticism; Literature and history; Politics and literature
Description: Christopher Herbert considers why the Victorian public saw the Indian Mutiny of 1857-59 as an epochal event and offers a view of this episode, and of Victorian imperialist culture more generally.