Title The Indian Mutiny and the British imagination / Gautam Chakravarty

Published Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 242 pages) Series Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 43 Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 43 Contents From chronicle to history -- Reform and revision -- Romances of empire, Romantic orientalism, and Anglo-India : contexts, historical, and literary -- The "Mutiny" novel and the historical archive -- Counter-insurgency and heroism -- Imagining resistance Summary This book explores representations of the Indian Mutiny of 1857 in British popular fiction and historiography and within the wider context of British involvement in India. Drawing on diaries, autobiographies and state papers, Chakravarty demonstrates how narratives of the rebellion were inflected by the concerns of colonial policy and the demands of imperial self-image Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-236) and index Notes English Print version record Subject English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Literature and history -- India -- History -- 19th century Anglo-Indian fiction -- History and criticism English literature -- Indic influences. British -- India -- Intellectual life LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Anglo-Indian fiction British -- Intellectual life English fiction English literature -- Indic influences Historiography Literature Literature and history Literatur Geschichtsschreibung Opstanden. Geschiedschrijving. Beeldvorming. Literaire teksten. SUBJECT India -- History -- Sepoy Rebellion, 1857-1858 -- Literature and the rebellion India -- History -- Sepoy Rebellion, 1857-1858 -- Historiography India -- In literature Subject Great Britain India Englisch. Indien -- Aufstand <1857-1858, Motiv> Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 0511081111 9780511081118 9780511484759 0511484755 9780511080357 0511080352 1280163437 9781280163432 9786610163434 661016343X 0511121660 9780511121661 0511196725 9780511196720 0511326661 9780511326660

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