Making British Indian fictions : 1772-1823

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Label

Making British Indian fictions : 1772-1823

Title remainder

1772-1823

Statement of responsibility

Ashok Malhotra

Creator

• Malhotra, Ashok

Subject

• Book industries and trade -- Great Britain -- History
• Colonies in literature
• Consumption (Economics) -- Great Britain -- History
• English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
• English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• English literature -- Indic influences
• Imperialism in literature
• India -- In literature
• Orientalism -- History -- Great Britain
• Anglo-Indian literature -- History and criticism

Language

eng

Summary

This book examines fictional representations of India in novels, plays and poetry produced between the years 1772 to 1823 as historical source material. It uses literary texts as case studies to investigate how Britons residing both in the metropole and in India justified, confronted and imagined the colonial encounter during this period. The study will situate the texts in relation to the shifting colonial context and to the changing attitudes towards India within Britain in general and on the part of Britons who had experience of living in India, such as East India Company men or their wives and daughters, in particular. Moreover, it will analyse how this literature responded to the increasing influence of the subcontinent on metropolitan culture. This book, then, approaches fictional texts as case studies that illuminate trends taking place within Britain such as the growing consumption of Indian-style imported goods and the commoditisation of an Indian aesthetic within British visual culture. Whilst the book will utilise fictional portrayals to comment upon shifts in the relationship between coloniser and colonised and to discuss the cross-cultural influences between the metropole and the colonial periphery, it also outlines how literary production and print capitalism played a part in shaping depictions of the subcontinent and stereotypes of the colonial 'other'. The study will also examine how representations of the subcontinent in British art and scholarship were influenced by metropolitan literary and popular culture. At the same time it will look at how representations by metropolitan authors influenced early-nineteenth century depictions by British authors who resided in India

Member of

• Online access with purchase: Palgrave Connect (History Collection)
• Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history

Cataloging source

UK-WkNB

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction