Cover; Eastern Figures -- Orient and Empire in British Writing; Copyright; Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. Hinterland; 3. Conversions and Reversions; 4. Crowds; 5. Nature and Some Naturalists; 6. Contacts and Transgressions; 7. Travellers to War; 8. Figures of Rule; 9. Not Knowing the Oriental; Bibliography; Index
Summary
This title is a literary history with a difference. It examines British writing about the East centered on India but radiating as far as Egypt and the Pacific in a colonial and postcolonial period
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-251) and index