Narrating cultural encounter: representation of India in select enlightenment women writers
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Main Author: Chatterjee, Arnab (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; London Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2022
Series:Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature
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Links:https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003152125
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003152125
Abstract:British women writers and India vis-à-vis the context of the Enlightenment -- "Enchanting quarter of the globe" : representation of India in Phebe Gibbes's Hartly House, Calcutta -- "A presumptuous effort" : representation of India in Translations of the letters of a Hindoo Rajah -- "My Indian venture" : representation of India in Lady Morgan's The Missionary: an Indian tale -- Mapping the gaze of the British women travellers : representation of India in Jemima Kindersley and Eliza Fay
"This book interrogates and historicises eighteenth-century British women writers' responses to India through the novel and travel writing, to bring out the polyvalent space arising out of their complex negotiation with the colonial discourse"--
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 196 Seiten)
ISBN:9781003152125
DOI:10.4324/9781003152125