Sympathy and India in British Literature, 1770-1830
Nonfiction, History, Asian, Asia, British, Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
| Author: | A. Rudd | ISBN: | 9780230306004 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK | Publication: | May 25, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan | Language: | English |
| Author: | A. Rudd |
| ISBN: | 9780230306004 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Publication: | May 25, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Language: | English |
India was the object of intense sympathetic concern during the Romantic period. But what was the true nature of imaginative engagement with British India? This study explores how a range of authors, from Edmund Burke and Sir William Jones to Robert Southey and Thomas Moore, sought to come to terms with India's strangeness and distance from Britain.
India was the object of intense sympathetic concern during the Romantic period. But what was the true nature of imaginative engagement with British India? This study explores how a range of authors, from Edmund Burke and Sir William Jones to Robert Southey and Thomas Moore, sought to come to terms with India's strangeness and distance from Britain.
