English Writing and India, 1600-1920
Colonizing Aesthetics
Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 12 September 2007
- ISBN 9780415409193
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 570 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 12 Halftones, black & white 0
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Short description:
This book explores the formations and configurations of British colonial discourse on India through a reading of prose narratives of the 1600-1920 period.
Arguing that colonial discourse often relied on aesthetic devices in order to describe and assert a degree of narrative control over Indian landscape, Pramod Nayar demonstrates how aesthetics furnished a vocabulary and representational modes for the British to construct particular images of India.
Looking specifically at the aesthetic modes of the marvellous, the monstrous, the sublime, the picturesque and the luxuriant, Nayar marks the shift in the rhetoric – from the exploration narratives from the age of mercantile exploration to that of the ‘shikar’ memoirs of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century’s extreme exotic. English Writing and India provides an important new study of colonial aesthetics, even as it extends current scholarship on the modes of early British representations of new lands and cultures.
MoreLong description:
This book explores the formations and configurations of British colonial discourse on India through a reading of prose narratives of the 1600-1920 period.
Arguing that colonial discourse often relied on aesthetic devices in order to describe and assert a degree of narrative control over Indian landscape, Pramod Nayar demonstrates how aesthetics furnished a vocabulary and representational modes for the British to construct particular images of India.
Looking specifically at the aesthetic modes of the marvellous, the monstrous, the sublime, the picturesque and the luxuriant, Nayar marks the shift in the rhetoric – from the exploration narratives from the age of mercantile exploration to that of the ‘shikar’ memoirs of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century’s extreme exotic. English Writing and India provides an important new study of colonial aesthetics, even as it extends current scholarship on the modes of early British representations of new lands and cultures.
MoreTable of Contents:
Acknowledgements Introduction: Aesthetic Negotiations Chapter 1: Marvelous Difficulty, 1600-1720 Chapter 2: The Social Monstrous, 1600-1720 Chapter 3: The Imperial Sublime, 1750-1820 Chapter 4: The Missionary Picturesque, 1790-1860 Chapter 5: The Sporting Luxuriant, 1850-1920 Notes Bibliography Index
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