Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Schmitt, Cannon

Titel

Border Crossings: Nationality, Sexuality, and Colonialism in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette

Ist Teil von

• Alien Nation, 2018, p.76-106

Ort / Verlag

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

De Gruyter eBooks

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• It was in India rather than China that the national victimization De Quincey anxiously predicted finally took place. Sepoy troops stationed at Meerut mutinied on 10 May 1857, firing upon their British officers and looting European homes before fleeing toward Delhi. By the evening of the next day, the mutineers had defeated that city’s garrison and seized its magazine of weapons and gunpowder. In the month that followed, nearly all the Indian regiments in northwestern India broke into open revolt: the Indian Rebellion (or Sepoy Mutiny, as the British called it at the time) was underway.¹ Of the various confused