British Empire and the Literature of Rebellion: Revolting Bodies, Laboring Subjects

ISBN-13: 9783319576626 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 271 str.

Sheshalatha Reddy

Opis

This book examines imperial and nationalist discourses surrounding three contemporaneous and unsuccessful mid-nineteenth-century colonial uprisings against the British Empire: the Sepoy Rebellion (1857) in India, the Morant Bay Rebellion (1865) in Jamaica, and the Fenian Rebellion (1867) in Ireland.

Recenzje

"This book provides a valuable contribution to the history and literature of anti-colonial rebellion in the nineteenth century and beyond. It is well worth reading for the sheer variety of texts it examines and for the way Reddy showcases the complexity of the ideas and positions within them." (Mukti Lakhi Mangharam, Victorian Studies, Vol. 61 (4), 2019)

Spis treści

Introduction: Revolting Bodies.- 1. Rise of the Machines: The State, its Subjects, and the Sepoy Rebellion.- 2. Inspiriting Flesh/Fleshing Out Spirit.- 3. Cellular Structures, Boundaries, and Networks: Tracing the Fenian Rebellion.- 4. Bodies in Labor, Bodies as Revolt.- Index.

O autorze

Sheshalatha Reddy is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Howard University, USA, where she teaches British and Anglophone colonial and postcolonial literatures. In the last several years she has published articles in the Journal of Commonwealth Literature and Victorian Literature and Culture as well as in edited collections. She also published an edited anthology entitled Mapping the Nation: An Anthology of Indian Poetry in English, 1870-1920 (2012) and several solicited encyclopedia articles.