| Civility and Empire: Literature and Culture in British India, 1821-1921 Contributor(s): Roy, Anindyo (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415646669 ISBN-13: 9780415646666 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $59.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Asian - Indic |
| Dewey: 820.995 |
| Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.75 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - Indian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book addresses the idea of 'civility' as a manifestation of the fluidity and ambivalence of imperial power as reflected in British colonial literature and culture. Discussions of Anglo-Indian romances of 1880-1900, E.M. Forster's The Life to Come and Leonard Woolf's writings show how the appeal to civility had a significant effect on the constitution of colonial subject-hood and reveals 'civility' as an ideal trope for the ambivalence of imperial power itself. |