Civility and empire
Subtitle: literature and culture in British India, 1822-1922
By: Anindyo Roy.
Series: Routledge research in postcolonial literatures
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Anglo-Indian literature -- History and criticism; Literature and society -- India -- History -- 19th century; Literature and society -- India -- History -- 20th century; English literature -- Indic influences; British -- India -- Intellectual life; Imperialism in literature; Courtesy in literature; Colonies in literature; India -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Colonial civility and the regulation of social desire; title: Writing the liberal self in John Stuart Mill : colonial civility and disciplinary regime; title: Policing the boundaries : civility and gender in the Anglo-Indian romances, 1880-1900; title: "Savage pursuit" : missionary civility and colonization in E.M. Forster"s "The life to come"; title: Civility and the colonial body/state in Leonard Woolf.