Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Chatterjee, Arnab

Titel

Narrating cultural encounter : representations of India in select Enlightenment women writers

Ist Teil von

• Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature

Ort / Verlag

New York ; London : Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

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• Inhaltsverzeichnis

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 177-187
• British women writers and India vis-à-vis the context of the Enlightenment -- "Enchanting quarter of the globe" : representation of India in Phebe Gibbes's Hartly House, Calcutta -- "A presumptuous effort" : representation of India in Translations of the letters of a Hindoo Rajah -- "My Indian venture" : representation of India in Lady Morgan's The Missionary: an Indian tale -- Mapping the gaze of the British women travellers : representation of India in Jemima Kindersley and Eliza Fay.
• "This book interrogates and historicises eighteenth-century British women writers' responses to India through the novel and travel writing, to bring out the polyvalent space arising out of their complex negotiation with the colonial discourse"--