India in the American Imaginary, 1780s-1880s

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The work India in the American Imaginary, 1780s-1880s represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

India in the American Imaginary, 1780s-1880s

Statement of responsibility

edited by Anupama Arora, Rajender Kaur

Contributor

• Arora, Anupama
• Kaur, Rajender

Editor

• Arora, Anupama
• Kaur, Rajender

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Comparative literature
• Comparative literature
• Electronic books
• Literature
• Literature
• Literature, Modern
• Literature, Modern -- 19th century
• Oriental literature
• Oriental literature

Genre

• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

This book seeks to frame the "the idea of India" in the American imaginary within a transnational lens that is attentive to global flows of goods, people, and ideas within the circuits of imperial and maritime economies in nineteenth century America (roughly 1780s-1880s). This diverse and interdisciplinary volume - with essays by upcoming as well as established scholars - aims to add to an understanding of the fast changing terrain of economic, political, and cultural life in the US as it emerged from being a British colony to having imperial ambitions of its own on the global stage. The essays trace, variously, the evolution of the changing self-image of a nation embodying a surprisingly cosmopolitan sensibility, open to different cultural values and customs in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century to one that slowly adopted rigid and discriminatory racial and cultural attitudes spawned by the widespread missionary activities of the ABCFM and the fierce economic pulls and pushes of American mercantilism by the end of the nineteenth century. The different uses of India become a way of refining an American national identity

Member of

• New urban Atlantic

Cataloging source

AZU

Dewey number

973.5

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

PN441-1009.5

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

The New Urban Atlantic