Title Sympathy and India in British literature, 1770-1830 / Andrew Rudd

Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Description 1 online resource Series Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the cultures of print Contents List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Edmund Burke and the Trial of Warren Hastings -- 'No less pious than sublime': the Sympathetic Vision of Sir William Jones -- Sympathy in a Hot Climate: British and Indian Subjects at the turn of the century -- Gothic Sympathy and Missionary Writing -- 'Oriental' versus 'Orientalist' Poetry: the Debate in Romantic Period Literary Criticism -- Epilogue: Orientalism under Pressure Summary India was the object of intense sympathetic concern during the Romantic period. But what was the true nature of imaginative engagement with British India in the seminal years between 1770 and 1830? This innovative new study explores how a range of authors, from Edmund Burke and Sir William Jones to Robert Southey and Thomas Moore, sought to come to terms with India's strangeness, mystique and sheer geographical distance from Britain. This book explores the contradictions and complexities entailed in the colonial encounter, which it argues were mediated through imaginative sympathy and the related discourses of sensibility and sentimentalism. It offers specialists and the general reader alike a distinctive retelling of Britain's dealings with India and draws on recent critical interest in sympathy, colonialism and Romantic Orientalism "India exerted a powerful grip over the imagination of British authors during the Romantic period. But what was the true nature of their engagement with the Subcontinent? This study argues that depictions of India had to come to terms with India's strangeness and distance from Britain, as well as the aesthetic requirements of European culture"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Orientalism in literature. Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800. Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900. British & Irish history. Asian history. Colonialism & imperialism. Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. Literature. English literature Literature Orientalism in literature SUBJECT India -- In literature Subject India Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780230306004 0230306004 1283124548 9781283124546

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