Anxieties of Empire and the fiction of intrigue
By: Yumna Siddiqi.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780231138086; 9780231138093; 9780231510868
Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; English fiction -- South Asian authors -- History and criticism; Intrigue in literature; Espionage in literature; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Imperialism in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Anxiety in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.  ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Colonial anxieties and the fiction of intrigue; title: Imperial intrigue in an English country house; title: Sherlock Holmes and "the cesspool of Empire": the return of the repressed; title: The fiction of counterinsurgency; title: Postcolonial modernity and the fiction of intrigue intermezzo; title: Police and postcolonial rationality in Amitav Ghosh's The circle of reason; title: "Deep in blood": Roy, Rushdie, and the representation of state violence in India; title: "The unhistorical dead": violence, history, and narrative in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's ghost; title: Conclusion: "power smashes into private lives": cultural politics in the new Empire.