1st Edition
Literature and Nation Britain and India 1800-1990
400 Pages
by
Routledge
404 Pages
by
Routledge
Perhaps no two nations in modern times have had a more complex cultural engagement than imperial Britain and colonised India. This unique anthology of stories, poems, historical documents and extracts from novels - most unavailable elsewhere - enables readers to examine the cultures of these two countries in an integrated way. Introductory chapters by Richard Allen and Harish Trivedi and others... Read more
Preface, How to use this book 1 Literature and history 2 First encounters: works by Sir William Jones and others 3 The British nation and the colonies: Mansfield Park 4 Literature, nation and revolution: A Tale of Two Cities 5 The White Man's Burden: Kim 6 Poetry and nation: W.B. Yeats 7 Liberal dilemmas in England and India: A Passage to India 8 Gandhian nationalism: Kanthapura 9 Fragmenting nations and lives: Sunlight on a Broken Column 10 A post-colonial world: Look Back in Anger and The Enigma of Arrival 11 Post-colonial hybridity: Midnight's Children, Related Texts, Index.
Biography
Richard Allen is a Senior Lecturer in Literature at The Open University, Harish Trivedi is Professor of English at the University of Delhi.
