Author: Shoshee Chunder Dutt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Bengaliana
Author: Shoshee Chunder Dutt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Science Fiction in Colonial India, 18351905
Author: Mary Ellis Gibson
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1783088656
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
"Science Fiction in Colonial India, 1835–1905" shows, for the first time, how science fiction writing developed in India years before the writings of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells. The five stories presented in this collection, in their cultural and political contexts, help form a new picture of English language writing in India and a new understanding of the connections among science fiction, modernity and empire. [NP] Speculative fiction developed early in India in part because the intrinsic dysfunction and violence of colonialism encouraged writers there to project alternative futures, whether utopian or dystopic. The stories in "Science Fiction in Colonial India, 1835–1905," created by Indian and British writers, responded to the intellectual ferment and political instabilities of colonial India. They add an important dimension to our understanding of Victorian empire, science fiction and speculative fictional narratives. They provide new examples of the imperial and the anti-imperial imaginations at work.
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1783088656
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
"Science Fiction in Colonial India, 1835–1905" shows, for the first time, how science fiction writing developed in India years before the writings of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells. The five stories presented in this collection, in their cultural and political contexts, help form a new picture of English language writing in India and a new understanding of the connections among science fiction, modernity and empire. [NP] Speculative fiction developed early in India in part because the intrinsic dysfunction and violence of colonialism encouraged writers there to project alternative futures, whether utopian or dystopic. The stories in "Science Fiction in Colonial India, 1835–1905," created by Indian and British writers, responded to the intellectual ferment and political instabilities of colonial India. They add an important dimension to our understanding of Victorian empire, science fiction and speculative fictional narratives. They provide new examples of the imperial and the anti-imperial imaginations at work.
Rule of Darkness
Author: Patrick Brantlinger
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801467039
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
A major contribution to the cultural and literary history of the Victorian age, Rule of Darkness maps the complex relationship between Victorian literary forms, genres, and theories and imperialist, racist ideology. Critics and cultural historians have usually regarded the Empire as being of marginal importance to early and mid-Victorian writers. Patrick Brantlinger asserts that the Empire was central to British culture as a source of ideological and artistic energy, both supported by and lending support to widespread belief in racial superiority, the need to transform "savagery" into "civilization," and the urgency of promoting emigration. Rule of Darkness brings together material from public records, memoirs, popular culture, and canonical literature. Brantlinger explores the influence of the novels of Captain Frederick Marryat, pioneer of British adolescent adventure fiction, and shows the importance of William Makepeace Thackeray's experience of India to his novels. He treats a number of Victorian best sellers previously ignored by literary historians, including the Anglo-Indian writer Philip Meadows Taylor's Confessions of a Thug and Seeta. Brantlinger situates explorers' narratives and travelogues by such famous author-adventurers as David Livingstone and Sir Richard Burton in relation to other forms of Victorian and Edwardian prose. Through readings of works by Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, John Hobson, and many others, he considers representations of Africa, India, and other non-British parts of the world in both fiction and nonfiction. The most comprehensive study yet of literature and imperialism in the early and mid-Victorian years, Rule of Darkness offers, in addition, a revisionary interpretation of imperialism as a significant factor in later British cultural history, from the 1880s to World War I. It is essential reading for anyone concerned with Victorian culture and society and, more generally, with the relationship between Victorian writers and imperialism, 'and between racist ideology and patterns of domination in modern history.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801467039
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
A major contribution to the cultural and literary history of the Victorian age, Rule of Darkness maps the complex relationship between Victorian literary forms, genres, and theories and imperialist, racist ideology. Critics and cultural historians have usually regarded the Empire as being of marginal importance to early and mid-Victorian writers. Patrick Brantlinger asserts that the Empire was central to British culture as a source of ideological and artistic energy, both supported by and lending support to widespread belief in racial superiority, the need to transform "savagery" into "civilization," and the urgency of promoting emigration. Rule of Darkness brings together material from public records, memoirs, popular culture, and canonical literature. Brantlinger explores the influence of the novels of Captain Frederick Marryat, pioneer of British adolescent adventure fiction, and shows the importance of William Makepeace Thackeray's experience of India to his novels. He treats a number of Victorian best sellers previously ignored by literary historians, including the Anglo-Indian writer Philip Meadows Taylor's Confessions of a Thug and Seeta. Brantlinger situates explorers' narratives and travelogues by such famous author-adventurers as David Livingstone and Sir Richard Burton in relation to other forms of Victorian and Edwardian prose. Through readings of works by Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, John Hobson, and many others, he considers representations of Africa, India, and other non-British parts of the world in both fiction and nonfiction. The most comprehensive study yet of literature and imperialism in the early and mid-Victorian years, Rule of Darkness offers, in addition, a revisionary interpretation of imperialism as a significant factor in later British cultural history, from the 1880s to World War I. It is essential reading for anyone concerned with Victorian culture and society and, more generally, with the relationship between Victorian writers and imperialism, 'and between racist ideology and patterns of domination in modern history.
Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country
Author: James Anthony Froude
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 1642
Book Description
Contains the first printing of Sartor resartus, as well as other works by Thomas Carlyle.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 1642
Book Description
Contains the first printing of Sartor resartus, as well as other works by Thomas Carlyle.
The Indian English Novel
Author: Priyamvada Gopal
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199544387
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This book provides an informed and lively introduction to the Indian novel in English which is now a fixture on the international literary scene. It discusses the work of major writers including Rabindranath Tagore, Mulk Raj Anand, RK Narayan, Salman Rushdie, Nayantara Sahgal, Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy, and Vikram Seth.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199544387
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This book provides an informed and lively introduction to the Indian novel in English which is now a fixture on the international literary scene. It discusses the work of major writers including Rabindranath Tagore, Mulk Raj Anand, RK Narayan, Salman Rushdie, Nayantara Sahgal, Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy, and Vikram Seth.
Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780-1913
Author: Mary Ellis Gibson
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821419420
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Gibson (English and gender studies, U. of North Carolina at Greensboro) collects and introduces the works of 34 poets writing in English in colonial India from 1780 to 1913 (the long 19th century). The majority of poets are, unsurprisingly, of British origin, but the works of a number of native Indian poets are included as well, Nobel winner Rabindranath Tagore perhaps the most notable of them. Gibson includes notes on vocabulary and historical and cultural references and includes biographical introductions for the poets. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821419420
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Gibson (English and gender studies, U. of North Carolina at Greensboro) collects and introduces the works of 34 poets writing in English in colonial India from 1780 to 1913 (the long 19th century). The majority of poets are, unsurprisingly, of British origin, but the works of a number of native Indian poets are included as well, Nobel winner Rabindranath Tagore perhaps the most notable of them. Gibson includes notes on vocabulary and historical and cultural references and includes biographical introductions for the poets. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Popular Cinema in Bengal
Author: Madhuja Mukherjee
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000448924
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Popular Cinema in Bengal marks a decisive turn in studies of Bengali language cinema by shifting the focus from auteur and text-based studies to exhaustive readings of the film industry. The book covers a wide range of themes and issues, including: generic tropes (like comedy and action); iconic figurations (of the detective and the city); (female) stars such as Kanan Bala, Sadhana Bose and Aparna Sen; intensities of public debates (subjects of high and low cultures, taste, viewership, gender and sexuality); print cultures (including posters, magazines and song-booklets); cinematic spaces; and trans-media and trans-cultural traffic. By locating cinema within the crosscurrents of geo-political transformations, the book highlights the new and persuasive research that has materialised over the last decade. The authors raise pertinent questions regarding 'regional' cinema as a category, in relation to 'national' cinema models, and trace the non-linear journey of the popular via multiple (media) trajectories. They address subjects of physicality, sexuality and its representations, industrial change, spaces of consumption, and cinema’s meandering directions through global circuits and low-end networks. Highlighting the ever-changing contours of cinema in Bengal in all its popular forms and proposing a new historiography, Popular Cinema in Bengal will be of great interest to scholars of film studies and South-Asian popular culture. The chapters were originally published in the journal South Asian History and Culture.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000448924
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Popular Cinema in Bengal marks a decisive turn in studies of Bengali language cinema by shifting the focus from auteur and text-based studies to exhaustive readings of the film industry. The book covers a wide range of themes and issues, including: generic tropes (like comedy and action); iconic figurations (of the detective and the city); (female) stars such as Kanan Bala, Sadhana Bose and Aparna Sen; intensities of public debates (subjects of high and low cultures, taste, viewership, gender and sexuality); print cultures (including posters, magazines and song-booklets); cinematic spaces; and trans-media and trans-cultural traffic. By locating cinema within the crosscurrents of geo-political transformations, the book highlights the new and persuasive research that has materialised over the last decade. The authors raise pertinent questions regarding 'regional' cinema as a category, in relation to 'national' cinema models, and trace the non-linear journey of the popular via multiple (media) trajectories. They address subjects of physicality, sexuality and its representations, industrial change, spaces of consumption, and cinema’s meandering directions through global circuits and low-end networks. Highlighting the ever-changing contours of cinema in Bengal in all its popular forms and proposing a new historiography, Popular Cinema in Bengal will be of great interest to scholars of film studies and South-Asian popular culture. The chapters were originally published in the journal South Asian History and Culture.
Nationalism in Indo-Anglian Fiction
Author: Gobinda Prasad Sarma
Publisher: New Delhi : Sterling
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Publisher: New Delhi : Sterling
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Fraser's Magazine
Postcolonial Indian Writing
Author: Meenakshi Sharma
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
On the postindependence Indian writing in English and representation of British rule and England in it; a study.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
On the postindependence Indian writing in English and representation of British rule and England in it; a study.