Indian angles English verse in colonial India from Jones to Tagore /
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Athens :
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2011.
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10469438 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part One. Languages, tropes, and landscape in the beginnings of English language poetry: Contact poetics in eighteenth-century Calcutta: Sir William Jones, John Horsford, and Anna Maria; Bards and sybils: landscape, gender, and the culture of dispute in the poems of H. L. V. Derozio and Emma Roberts
- Part two. The institutions of colonial mimesis, 1830/1857: Books, reading, and the profession of letters: David Lester Richardson and the construction of a British canon in India; sighing, or not, for albion: Kasiprasad Ghosh, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, and Mary Carshore
- Part three. Nationalisms, religion, and aestheticism in the late nineteenth century: From Christian piety to cosmopolitan nationalisms: the Dutt family album and the poems of Mary E. Leslie and Toru Dutt; cosmopolitanism, nationalism, and aestheticism in fin-de-siαecle London: Manmohan Ghose, Sarojini Naidu, and Rabindranath Tagore.