Colonial Narratives/Cultural Dialogues
Subtitle: 'Discoveries' of India in the Language of Colonialism
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1996
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9780203359679
Subjects: English literature; Early modern, 1500-1700; His
Description: Using Shakespeare as a case in point, this book shows how the study of English Literature was implicated in the ideology of the empires in colonies such as India. The author argues that these studies promote western culture.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Discoveries, encounters, spectacles: colonial beginnings; The English nabobs: eighteenth-century Orientalism; The gendering of empire; Shakespeare and the ~civilizing mission~; The Blind Age: discovering a postcolonial nation; Index.