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Indian Angles: English Verse in Colonial India from Jones to Tagore de Mary Ellis Gibson

Indian Angles: English Verse in Colonial India from Jones to Tagore: Series in Victorian Studies

Autor Mary Ellis Gibson
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 mai 2011
A 2012 CHOICE “Outstanding Academic Title“
A new historical approach to Indian English literature
Mary Ellis Gibson shows that poetry, not fiction, was the dominant literary genre of Indian writing in English until 1860 and that poetry written in colonial situations can tell us as much or even more about figuration, multilingual literacies, and histories of nationalism than novels can. Gibson re-creates the historical webs of affiliation and resistance that were experienced by writers in colonial India—writers of British, Indian, and mixed ethnicities.
Advancing new theoretical and historical paradigms for reading colonial literatures, Indian Angles makes accessible many writers heretofore neglected or virtually unknown. Gibson recovers texts by British women, by nonelite British men, and by persons who would, in the nineteenth century, have been called Eurasian. Her work traces the mutually constitutive history of English-language poets from Sir William Jones to Toru Dutt and Rabindranath Tagore. Drawing on contemporary postcolonial theory, her work also provides new ways of thinking about British internal colonialism as its results were exported to South Asia.
In lucid and accessible prose, Gibson presents a new theoretical approach to colonial and postcolonial literatures.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780821419410
ISBN-10: 0821419412
Pagini: 344
Ilustrații: 8
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Ohio University Press
Colecția Ohio University Press
Seria Series in Victorian Studies

Recenzii

“This is genuinely groundbreaking work: ambitiously conceived, suggestively presented, and potentially paradigm-shifting.”—Tricia Lootens, author of Lost Saints: Silence, Gender, and Victorian Literary Canonization

“Indian Angles showcases and reflects the vibrant poetry culture of India in the nineteenth century and therein lies its contribution to the scholarship of that period.”—Victorian Studies

“Both of Gibson’s books (Indian Angles and Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India) stand as shining examples of the strategic comparativist work needed to assess the full array of literary voices in/on India during the long nineteenth century.”—English Literature in Transition, 1880–1920

“In this thoroughly researched, well-theorized study, Gibson traces the rise of English-language poetics in India from the late 18th century to the early 20th. She acknowledges the complex, changing identity politics informing colonial affiliation, showing how poets of British, Indian, or mixed origin and affiliation were involved in the complementary project of establishing Anglo-Indian poetics…. Summing Up: Highly recommended.”—Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries

”Asserting that poetry—rather than prose fiction—dominated English-language writing in India for most of the nineteenth century, Indian Angles examines ‘the rise and expansion of English language poetics in India,‘….”—Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900

Notă biografică

Mary Ellis Gibson is Arthur Jeremiah Roberts Professor of Literature at Colby College. Her books include Indian Angles: English Verse in Colonial India from Jones to Tagore (Ohio, 2011); History and the Prism of Art: Browning’s Poetic Experiments; and Epic Reinvented: Ezra Pound and the Victorians. She has also edited several other anthologies, including New Stories by Southern Women; Homeplaces: Stories of the South by Women Writers; and Critical Essays on Robert Browning.

Cuprins

List of Illustrations ix 

Acknowledgments xi 

A Note on Names xv 

Introduction 1 

Part I 
Languages, Tropes, and Landscape in the Beginnings of English Language Poetry 

Chapter One 
Contact Poetics in Eighteenth-Century Calcutta: Sir William Jones, Sir John Horsford, and Anna Maria 17 

Chapter Two 
Bards and Sybils: Landscape, Gender, and the Culture of Dispute in the Poems of H. L. V. Derozio and Emma Roberts 63 

Part II 
The Institutions of Colonial Mimesis, 1830–57 

Chapter Three 
Books, Reading, and the Profession of Letters: David Lester Richardson and the Construction of a British Canon in India 101 

Chapter Four 
Sighing, or Not, for Albion: Kasiprasad Ghosh, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, and Mary Carshore 137 

Part III 
Nationalisms, Religion, and Aestheticism in the Late Nineteenth Century 

Chapter Five 
From Christian Piety to Cosmopolitan Nationalisms: The Dutt Family Album and the Poems of Mary E. Leslie and Toru Dutt 181 

Chapter Six 
Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Aestheticism in Fin-de-Siècle London: Manmohan Ghose, Sarojini Naidu, and Rabindranath Tagore 227 

Epilogue 268 

Notes 281 

Bibliography 309 

​​​​​​​Index 325

Descriere

Indian Angles is a new historical approach to Indian English literature. It shows that poetry, not fiction, was the dominant literary genre of Indian writing in English until 1860 and re-creates the historical webs of affiliation and resistance that writers in colonial India—writers of British, Indian, and mixed ethnicities—experienced.