Confessions of a Thug
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 11 July 2024
- ISBN 9780198854647
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages608 pages
- Size 196x130x27 mm
- Weight 418 g
- Language English 578
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Short description:
Confessions of a Thug was the first dramatic account to expose a European readership to the fantastic world of the murderous Thugs, or highway robbers, who strangled their victims and who have ever since been a stable of Western popular culture
MoreLong description:
'You have given a faithful portrait of a Thug's life, his ceremonies, and his acts'
Often overshadowed by Kipling's Kim or Forster's A Passage to India, Philip Meadows Taylor's forgotten classic, Confessions of a Thug (1839), is nevertheless the most influential novel of early nineteenth-century British India.
This was the first dramatic account to expose a European readership to the fantastic world of the murderous Thugs, or highway robbers, who strangled their victims and who have ever since been a stable of Western popular culture. Writing in the voice of a captured Thug, Taylor presents an Orientalist fantasy that is part picaresque adventure and part colonial exposé. Confessions of a Thug offers a unique glimpse of the colonial world in the making, revealing how the British imagined themselves to be omniscient and in complete control of their Indian subjects. This unique critical edition makes available a fascinating and significant work of Empire writing, in addition to excerpts from the original colonial texts that inspired Taylor's narrative.
I strongly recommend the purchase of this novel to casual readers who want to enjoy an adventure that has some hints of history.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of Philip Meadows Taylor
THE CONFESSIONS OF A THUG
Appendix
Glossary
Explanatory Notes
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