Literature & nation : Britain and India, 1800 to 1990

Literature & nation : Britain and India, 1800 to 1990 / edited by Richard Allen and Harish Trivedi.

Literature and Nation disects the relationship between Britain and India from 1800 to 1900, using key literary and historical texts. Books from Kim to Mansfield Park and Midnight's Children are used in conjunction with primary source material to better understand the complicated cultural encoun...

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Other Authors: Allen, Richard, 1946 June 23-, Trivedi, Harish
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge in association with the Open University, 2000.
Subjects:
English literature > Indic influences.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Nationalism and literature > Great Britain > History.
Indic literature (English) > History and criticism.
Anglo-Indian literature > History and criticism.
Nationalism and literature > India > History.
Comparative literature > English and Indic.
Comparative literature > Indic and English.
British > India > Intellectual life.
Nationalism in literature.
Great Britain > Relations > India.
India > Relations > Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Anthologies (form)
Online Access:Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Nation in History
  • 2. First Cultural Encounters
  • 3. The British Nation and the Colonies: Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
  • 4. Literature, Nation and Revolution: Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
  • 5. The White Man's Burden: Rudayrd Kipling, Kim and Selected Poems
  • 6. Poetry and Nation: Yeats and Tagore
  • 7. Liberal Dilemmas in England and India: E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
  • 8 Gandhian Nationalism: Raja Rao, Kanthapura
  • 9 Independence and After: Attia Hosain Sunlight on a Broken Column and other texts
  • 10. Nostalgia and Disillusion: John Osborne, Look Back in Anger and V.S. Naipaul Enigma of Arrival
  • 11 Post-colonial Hybridity: Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children.

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