1st Edition
English Siege and Prison Writings From the ‘Black Hole’ to the ‘Mutiny’
Preface
Introduction
1 An historical relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies (1681)
ROBERT KNOX 2 A genuine narrative of the deaths of English gentlemen (1764)
J.Z. HOLWELL 3 Personal narrative of two years’ imprisonment in Burmah (1860)
HENRY GOUGER 4 A journal of the disasters in Afghanistan (1843)
LADY [FLORENTIA] SALE
5 The military operations at Cabul (1843)
VINCENT EYRE
6 From the Calcutta Gazette (1791)
WILLIAM DRAKE
7 A narrative of the sufferings of James Bristow (1793)
JAMES BRISTOW
8 A narrative of the military operations on the Coromandel Coast (1789)
INNES MUNRO
9 The captivity, sufferings and escape of James Scurry (1824)
JAMES SCURRY
10 An authentic account of the treatment of English prisoners (1785)
HENRY OAKES
11 Siege of Lucknow: a diary (1892)
LADY [JULIA] INGLIS
Biography
Pramod K. Nayar teaches in the Department of English at the University of Hyderabad, India. His most recent books include The Indian Graphic Novel: Nation, History and Critique (Routledge, 2016), The Transnational in English Literature: Shakespeare to the Modern (Routledge, 2015), the edited Postcolonial Studies: An Anthology (2015) and the Postcolonial Studies Dictionary (2015). A book on human rights and literature and an edited five-volume collection Indian Travel Writing, 1830–1947 are forthcoming, besides essays on celebrity studies, graphic biographies and colonial etiquette books.
