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Who was William Hickey? : a crafted life in Georgian England and imperial India
- Title
- Who was William Hickey? : a crafted life in Georgian England and imperial India / James R. Farr.
- Author
- Farr, James Richard, 1950-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
- ©2020
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- Description
- x, 227 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "This book analyzes an example of life-writing, an autobiography that was written in the early nineteenth century and will appeal to readers of many disciplines who are interested in understanding the interconnectedness of memory, textual narrative, and ideas of selfhood. Moreover, this book reasserts the importance of the individual in history. It explains how personal narratives reveal the individual as a purposeful social actor pursuing particular objectives, but framed by cultural and social contexts, in this case by eighteenth-century London and Imperial India. The author of this autobiography, William Hickey, projects a sense of self formed by a combination of an interiorized self-consciousness (an awareness of himself as an autonomous individual, although not one prone to deep self-reflection) and a socially-turned self-fashioning. Like so many autobiographers of his time, Hickey's self is realized through the production of a narrative, his self fixed and defined through the act of writing. As he wrote his memoirs, Hickey was engaged in purposeful textual representation to satisfy his perceived sense of place in that culture (above all, as a gentleman) while tacitly reflecting the constraints of that culture imposed upon the form and content of the text"--
- Series Statement
- Routledge studies in cultural history
- Uniform Title
- Routledge studies in cultural history.
- Subjects
- India
- Great Britain
- Narration (Rhetoric)
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Hickey, William, 1749-1830 > Memoirs of William Hickey
- Biography
- History
- British Occupation of India (1765-1947)
- Autobiographical memory
- Individualism in literature
- India > History > British occupation, 1765-1947 > Biography
- Hickey, William, 1749-1830 > History and criticism
- 1765-1947
- Autobiography > English authors
- Narration (Rhetoric) > History > 19th century
- Great Britain > History > 1789-1820 > Biography
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: A crafted life : autobiography, memory, and identity in late Georgian England and Imperial India -- "The child is father of the man" -- "Dissipation and folly" : the young libertine -- Into the empire : India and Jamaica -- London again, then back to India -- A professional gentleman in Calcutta, and the return to "dear old England" -- Gentility -- Sensibility -- Masculinity -- Nationality.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-11747
- ISBN
- 9780367331191
- 0367331195
- 9780367353124
- 0367353121
- LCCN
- 2019031454
- OCLC
- 1112137745
- Author
- Farr, James Richard, 1950- author.
- Title
- Who was William Hickey? : a crafted life in Georgian England and imperial India / James R. Farr.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Routledge studies in cultural historyRoutledge studies in cultural history.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1765-1947
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781000649888
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-11747