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The stillbirth of capital : Enlightenment writing and colonial India
- Title
- The stillbirth of capital : Enlightenment writing and colonial India / Siraj Ahmed.
- Author
- Ahmed, Siraj Dean
- Publication
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2012]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PR448.I534 A36 2012 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- x, 291 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Argues that Enlightenment writers viewed the alliance of corporate monopolies (like the East India Company) and militarized states that produced colonialism as an engine of "war, economic ruin, and political degeneration" (p. 2).
- Subject
- 1700-1947
- Geschichte 1670-1815
- English literature > 18th century > History and criticism
- Colonies in literature
- Enlightenment
- British colonies
- English literature
- Literature
- Aufklärung
- Indienbild
- Kolonialismus
- India > In literature
- Great Britain > Colonies > History. > Asia
- India > History > British occupation, 1765-1947
- Asia
- India
- Großbritannien
- Indien
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : the Enlightenment and colonial India -- Sovereignty and monopoly in Dryden's Amboyna -- Conversion and piracy in Defoe's Captain Singleton -- Sentiment and debt in Sterne's Bramine's Journal and Foote's Nabob -- Free trade and famine in the wealth of nations and Bentham's 'essay' -- Nation and addiction in Burke's and Sheridan's speeches in the Hastings impeachment -- Orientalism and the permanent fix of war : Voltaire contra Sir William Jones -- History, anachronism, violence : Morgan's Missionary and Scott's Guy Mannering.
- ISBN
- 9780804775229
- 0804775222
- 9780804775236
- 0804775230
- LCCN
- 2011012292
- OCLC
- ocn710816343
- 710816343
- SCSB-14510264
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library