| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 293 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Spelling and Usage -- Introduction: Translocal Anglo-India -- Translocal Regionalism in Anglo-India -- Oceanic to Regional -- Middle Reading -- Bad Writing, Normal Literature, Boring Things -- 1. A Cultural Company-State and the Colonial Public Sphere -- Why Now? 1765-1819 -- Who Were the Anglo-Indians? -- Printers, Patrons, Readers, and Libraries -- Sponsorship and Censorship -- Making a Colonial Public Sphere -- 2. Newspaper Poetry and Reading Publics in Eighteenth-Century India |
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Poetry and the Business of Newspapers -- Multilingual Reading Publics -- Punch Houses, Hookahs, and Cheroots -- Literature's Infrastructure and the History of Conventional Forms -- 3. The Vagrant Muse: Making Reputation across Eurasia -- Reading Charlotte Smith in Canton -- Parnassus in Madras -- Ruins, Relics, and the Near Eastern Past -- Collaboration and Interimperial Assemblages -- 4. Undoing Britain in Bengal -- A "British Brahma": Sir William Jones and the Politics of Translocalism -- Rediscovering Liberty -- A Della Cruscan in Calcutta -- Forgetting Asia -- 5. Tristram Shandy in Bombay |
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Metropolitical Empire -- Oriental Traits -- Rewriting Tristram Shandy in Bombay -- "Children of the Sun" -- 6. Agonies of Empire: Captivity Narratives and the Mysore Wars, 1767-1799 -- Mercenaries of Imperial Emotion and the Spectacle of the Jailed Author -- Prison Poetry and Antiwar Sentiments -- The Dancing Boys of Mysore -- Captivity as Social Regeneration -- 7. Literary Culture of Colonial Outposts: Penang, Sumatra, and Java, 1771-1816 -- The Bay of Bengal and the Geography of "Greater India" -- Outpost Aesthetics: William Marsden in Sumatra |
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Multilingualism in the Java Government Gazette (1812-16) -- The "Samarang Hurly-Burly" -- Imitation in Early Nineteenth-Century Java -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Summary |
Revealing the vibrant literary culture that existed long before the characters of Rudyard Kipling's best-known works, Before the Raj reveals how these writers operated within a web of colonial cities and trading outposts that borrowed from one another and produced vital interlinked aesthetics. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Anglo-Indian literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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Anglo-Indian literature. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
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Journalism, Regional -- India -- History -- 18th century.
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Journalism, Regional. |
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India. |
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History. |
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Newspaper publishing -- India -- History -- 18th century.
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Newspaper publishing. |
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British -- India -- History -- 18th century.
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British. |
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India -- In literature.
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| Chronological Term |
1700-1799 |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mulholland, James, 1975- Before the raj. Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2021] 9781421439600 (DLC) 2020011648 (OCoLC)1141959758 |
| ISBN |
142143962X |
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9781421439624 (electronic book) |
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9781421439600 hardcover |
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1421439603 hardcover |
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9781421439617 paperback |
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1421439611 paperback |
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