The stillbirth of capital
Subtitle: Enlightenment writing and colonial India
By: Siraj Ahmed
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780804775229; 9780804775236
Subjects: Colonies in literature; English literature; Enlightenment; Colonies; In literature; History; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-[280]) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the Enlightenment and colonial India; title: Sovereignty and monopoly in Dryden's Amboyna; title: Conversion and piracy in Defoe's Captain Singleton; title: Sentiment and debt in Sterne's Bramine's Journal and Foote's Nabob; title: Free trade and famine: the wealth of nations and Bentham's 'essay'; title: Nation and addiction: Burke's and Sheridan's speeches in the Hastings impeachment; title: Orientalism and the permanent fix of war : Voltaire contra Sir William Jones; title: History, anachronism, violence : Morgan's Missionary and Scott's Guy Mannering.