Civility and Empire: Literature and Culture in British India, 1821-1921

ISBN-13: 9780415304351 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 224 str.

Anindyo Roy

Opis

This work addresses the idea of civility as a manifestation of the fluidity and ambivalence of imperial power as reflected in British colonial literature and culture.

Spis treści

1. Colonial Civility and the Regulation of Social Desire  2. Writing the Liberal Self in John Stuart Mill: Colonial Civility and Disciplinary Regime  3. Policing the Boubdaries: Civility and Gender in the Anglo-Indian Romances, 1880-1900  4. 'Savage Pursuit': Missionary Civility and Colonization in E. M. Forster's The Life to Come  5. Civility and the Colonial Body/State in Leonard Woolf

O autorze

Anindyo Roy is Associate Professor in English at Colby College, Maine, USA, where he teaches critical and postcolonial theory, and postcolonial and modern British literature.