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Online-Ressource (699 p)
ISBN:
9780231125857
Inhalt:
In a work of stunning archival recovery and interpretive virtuosity, Priya Joshi illuminates the cultural work performed by two kinds of English novels in India during the colonial and postcolonial periods. Spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, readers and writers, empire and nation, consumption and production, In Another Country vividly explores a process by which first readers and then writers of the English novel indigenized the once imperial form and put it to their own uses. Asking what nineteenth-century Indian readers chose to read and why, Joshi shows how these readers trans
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Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedicaton; Contents; List of Illustrations and Tables; Acknowledgments; Preface; Part 1: Consuming Fiction; Chapter 1. The Poetical Economy of Consumption; Chapter 2. The Circulation of Fiction in Indian Libraries, ca. 1835-1901; Chapter 3. Readers Write Back: The Macmillan Colonial Library in India; Part 2: Producing Fiction; Chapter 4. By Way of Transition: Bankim's Will, or Indigenizing the Novel in India; Chapter 5. Reforming the Novel: Krupa Satthianadhan, the Woman Who Did; Chapter 6. The Exile at Home: Ahmed Ali's Twilight in Delhi
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Chapter 7. The Other Modernism, or The Family Romance in EnglishNotes; Bibliography; Index;
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780231500906
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780231125857
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe In Another Country : Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in India
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
