The Indian Mutiny and the British Imagination / Gautam Chakravarty
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TextPublisher number: :Atlantic Publishers & Distributors | :7/22 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi Series: Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture, 43Publication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005Description: xi, 242 pages 24cmISBN: 9780521832748Subject(s): Literature | English & Old English literatures | English fiction | English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century | Anglo-Indian fiction -- History and criticism | British -- India -- Intellectual | Literary Criticism -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh | Literature and history | English literature -- Indic influences | fictionDDC classification: 823.809 CHA 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.
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| 823.8 WIL The happy prince and other stories | 823.8 WOO Dickens and the business of death | 823.809 ALT The presence of the present : | 823.809 CHA The Indian Mutiny and the British Imagination | 823.809 GAR From sketch to novel | 823.809 GOR Plotting Disability in the Nineteenth-Century Novel | 823.809 HAC The material interests of the Victorian novel |
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.
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.
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