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British orientalisms, 1759-1835
- Title
- British orientalisms, 1759-1835 / James Watt.
- Author
- Watt, James
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- vii, 285 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "In 1761 Richard Owen Cambridge published An Account of the War in India, telling the story of a decade of conflict between British and French forces in the south of the sub-continent. While this work says nothing about the 1757 battle of Plassey and the subsequent revolution that lead to the East India Company (hereafter EIC) gaining sovereign power in Bengal, it testifies to 'the great reputation which the nation, and so many individuals have acquired in the East-Indies'. Cambridge suggested that those, like him, without first-hand experience of India might already be primed to receive news of Britons' fantastic exploits there because of the 'Eastern' fictions to which they were accustomed: 'It will not appear strange that the generality of the world, through the habits of reading novels, and works of the imagination, should expect from an history of the East (... the scene of most of their ideal stories) a tale of adventures full of wonder and novelty, and nearly bordering upon romance'"--
- Series Statement
- Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 126
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 126.
- Subject
- 1700-1947
- Orientalism > Great Britain > History
- British > India > Intellectual life > 18th century
- British > India > Intellectual life > 19th century
- Orientalism in literature
- East and West
- British > Intellectual life
- Diplomatic relations
- Historiography
- Intellectual life
- Orientalism
- British
- Great Britain > Intellectual life > 18th century
- Great Britain > Intellectual life > 19th century
- India > History > Historiography. > British occupation, 1765-1947
- Great Britain > Foreign relations > India
- India > Foreign relations > Great Britain
- Great Britain
- India
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-279) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Britain, empire, and 'openness' to the East -- 'Those islanders' : British orientalisms and the Seven Years' War -- 'Indian details' : fictions of British India, 1774-1789 -- 'All Asia is covered in prisons' : Oriental despotism and British liberty in an age of revolutions -- 'In love with the Gopia' : Sir William Jones and his contemporaries -- 'Imperial dotage' and poetic ornament in romantic orientalist verse narrative -- Cockney translation : Leigh Hunt and Charles Lamb's eastern imaginings -- 'It is otherwise in Asia' : 'character' and improvement in picaresque fiction -- Conclusion: British orientalisms, empire, and improvement.
- Call Number
- JFE 22-3583
- ISBN
- 9781108472661
- 1108472664
- LCCN
- 2019008011
- OCLC
- 1090280153
- Author
- Watt, James, author.
- Title
- British orientalisms, 1759-1835 / James Watt.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 126Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 126.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-279) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1700-1947
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781108692953
- Research Call Number
- JFE 22-3583