The Indian Mutiny and the British Imagination

ISBN-13: 9780521832748 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 260 str.

Gautam Chakravarty; Gillian Beer

Opis

Gautam Chakravarty explores representations of the Indian Mutiny of 1857 in British popular fiction and historiography and within the wider context of British involvement in India. Drawing on diaries, autobiographies and state papers, Chakravarty demonstrates how narratives of the rebellion were inflected by the concerns of colonial policy and the demands of imperial self-image. The book has a broad interdisciplinary appeal.

Recenzje

'… the book will have an appeal beyond literary scholars among historians and social anthropologists.' The Times Higher Education Supplement

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Glossary; Introduction; 1. From chronicle to history; 2. Reform and revision; 3. Romances of empire, Romantic orientalism and Anglo-India: contexts, historical and literary; 4. The 'Mutiny' novel and the historical archive; 5. Counter-insurgency and heroism; 6. Imagining resistance; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index list.