| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 239 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-232) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Why dissent matters to literature -- pt. 1. The colonial period. Anti-imperialist wit in Horace Walpole's letters ; Burke's India campaign: Goliath, scourge, redeemer ; William Henry Sleeman and the Suttee romance ; Victorian oblivion and The moonstone -- pt. 2. After independence. The beast in Nirad Chaudhuri's garden ; The politics of cultural freedom: India in the 1950s ; Individuality as a problem in Naipaul's Indian narratives ; Epilogue: Pankaj Mishra and postcolonial cosmopolitanism. |
| Summary |
This study reinstates the author at the centre of the relationship between literature and history. It explores the tension between "discourse analysis" and literary criticism, then discusses writers who have achieved a measure of freedom from the limitations of their historical moments. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English literature -- History and criticism.
|
|
English literature. |
|
Anglo-Indian literature -- History and criticism.
|
|
Anglo-Indian literature. |
|
Indic literature (English) -- History and criticism.
|
|
Indic literature (English) |
|
Imperialism in literature.
|
|
Imperialism in literature. |
|
Postcolonialism -- India.
|
|
Postcolonialism. |
|
India. |
|
India -- In literature.
|
|
India -- Foreign public opinion, British.
|
|
Great Britain -- Relations -- India.
|
|
Great Britain. |
|
Relations. |
|
India -- Relations -- Great Britain.
|
|
India -- Historiography.
|
|
Historiography. |
|
India -- En la literatura. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
|
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: Sabin, Margery, 1940- Dissenters and mavericks. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002 (DLC) 2002066791 |
| ISBN |
9780195348705 (electronic book) |
|
0195348702 (electronic book) |
|
9780195150179 (alkaline paper) |
|
0195150171 (alkaline paper) |
|
1280532378 |
|
9781280532375 |
|
0195150171 (alkaline paper) |
|
