1st Edition
Civility and Empire Literature and Culture in British India, 1821-1921
By Anindyo Roy
Copyright 2005
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book addresses the idea of 'civility' as a manifestation of the fluidity and ambivalence of imperial power as reflected in British colonial literature and culture. Discussions of Anglo-Indian romances of 1880-1900, E.M. Forster's The Life to Come and Leonard Woolf's writings show how the appeal to civility had a significant effect on the constitution of colonial subject-hood and reveals... Read more
1. Colonial Civility and the Regulation of Social Desire 2. Writing the Liberal Self in John Stuart Mill: Colonial Civility and Disciplinary Regime 3. Policing the Boubdaries: Civility and Gender in the Anglo-Indian Romances, 1880-1900 4. 'Savage Pursuit': Missionary Civility and Colonization in E. M. Forster's The Life to Come 5. Civility and the Colonial Body/State in Leonard Woolf
Biography
Anindyo Roy is Associate Professor in English at Colby College, Maine, USA, where he teaches critical and postcolonial theory, and postcolonial and modern British literature.
