Format:
1 online resource (313 pages)
ISBN:
9781421439624
Content:
Revealing the vibrant literary culture that existed long before the characters of Rudyard Kipling's best-known works, Before the Raj reveals how these writers operated within a web of colonial cities and trading outposts that borrowed from one another and produced vital interlinked aesthetics.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Spelling and Usage -- Introduction: Translocal Anglo-India -- Translocal Regionalism in Anglo-India -- Oceanic to Regional -- Middle Reading -- Bad Writing, Normal Literature, Boring Things -- 1. A Cultural Company-State and the Colonial Public Sphere -- Why Now? 1765-1819 -- Who Were the Anglo-Indians? -- Printers, Patrons, Readers, and Libraries -- Sponsorship and Censorship -- Making a Colonial Public Sphere -- 2. Newspaper Poetry and Reading Publics in Eighteenth-Century India -- Poetry and the Business of Newspapers -- Multilingual Reading Publics -- Punch Houses, Hookahs, and Cheroots -- Literature's Infrastructure and the History of Conventional Forms -- 3. The Vagrant Muse: Making Reputation across Eurasia -- Reading Charlotte Smith in Canton -- Parnassus in Madras -- Ruins, Relics, and the Near Eastern Past -- Collaboration and Interimperial Assemblages -- 4. Undoing Britain in Bengal -- A "British Brahma": Sir William Jones and the Politics of Translocalism -- Rediscovering Liberty -- A Della Cruscan in Calcutta -- Forgetting Asia -- 5. Tristram Shandy in Bombay -- Metropolitical Empire -- Oriental Traits -- Rewriting Tristram Shandy in Bombay -- "Children of the Sun" -- 6. Agonies of Empire: Captivity Narratives and the Mysore Wars, 1767-1799 -- Mercenaries of Imperial Emotion and the Spectacle of the Jailed Author -- Prison Poetry and Antiwar Sentiments -- The Dancing Boys of Mysore -- Captivity as Social Regeneration -- 7. Literary Culture of Colonial Outposts: Penang, Sumatra, and Java, 1771-1816 -- The Bay of Bengal and the Geography of "Greater India" -- Outpost Aesthetics: William Marsden in Sumatra -- Multilingualism in the Java Government Gazette (1812-16) -- The "Samarang Hurly-Burly" -- Imitation in Early Nineteenth-Century Java -- Notes.
Content:
"Recovering a rich archive of ephemera, author Mulholland studies anglophone writers of British colonial India in the eighteenth century, the era of the East India Company. He shows how regional, rather than exclusively British, newspapers served as a major site for Anglo-Indian literary culture. In the regular poetry sections of these newspapers, writers adapted Anglophone literature to their own geographical politics and social circumstances"--
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781421439600
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781421439600
Language:
English
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