1st Edition
English Writing and India, 1600-1920 Colonizing Aesthetics
By Pramod K. Nayar
Copyright 2008
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book explores the formations and configurations of British colonial discourse on India through a reading of prose narratives of the 1600-1920 period.
Arguing that colonial discourse often relied on aesthetic devices in order to describe and assert a degree of narrative control over Indian landscape, Pramod Nayar demonstrates how aesthetics furnished a vocabulary and representational modes... Read more
Acknowledgements Introduction: Aesthetic Negotiations Chapter 1: Marvelous Difficulty, 1600-1720 Chapter 2: The Social Monstrous, 1600-1720 Chapter 3: The Imperial Sublime, 1750-1820 Chapter 4: The Missionary Picturesque, 1790-1860 Chapter 5: The Sporting Luxuriant, 1850-1920 Notes Bibliography Index
Biography
Pramod K. Nayar
