Under western eyes : India from Milton to Macaulay

Under western eyes : India from Milton to Macaulay / Balachandra Rajan.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rajan, Balachandra
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, ©1999.
Series:Post-contemporary interventions.
Subjects:
English literature > Indic influences.
Anglo-Indian literature > History and criticism.
English literature > History and criticism.
British > India > Intellectual life.
India > Foreign public opinion, British.
India > Relations > Great Britain.
Great Britain > Relations > India.
India > Historiography.
India > In literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • The Lusiads and the Asian reader
  • Banyan trees and fig leaves : some thoughts on Milton's India
  • Appropriating India : Dryden's great Mogul
  • James Mill and the case of the Hottentot Venus
  • Hegel's India and the surprise of sin
  • Feminizing the feminine : early women writers on India
  • Monstrous mythologies : Southey and The Curse of Kehama
  • Understanding Asia : Shelley's Prometheus unbound
  • Macaulay : the moment and the minute.

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