Literature & nation : Britain and India, 1800 to 1990 /
Literature and Nation disects the relationship between Britain and India from 1800 to 1900, using key literary and historical texts. Books from Kim to Mansfield Park and Midnight's Children are used in conjunction with primary source material to better understand the complicated cultural encoun...
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London : New York :
Routledge in association with The Open University,
2000
London ; New York : Routledge in association with the Open University, 2000 New York : 2000 London ; New York : 2000 |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Nation in History
- 2. First Cultural Encounters
- 3. The British Nation and the Colonies: Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
- 4. Literature, Nation and Revolution: Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
- 5. The White Man's Burden: Rudayrd Kipling, Kim and Selected Poems
- 6. Poetry and Nation: Yeats and Tagore
- 7. Liberal Dilemmas in England and India: E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
- 8 Gandhian Nationalism: Raja Rao, Kanthapura
- 9 Independence and After: Attia Hosain Sunlight on a Broken Column and other texts
- 10. Nostalgia and Disillusion: John Osborne, Look Back in Anger and V.S. Naipaul Enigma of Arrival
- 11 Post-colonial Hybridity: Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children