Under Western Eyes: India from Milton to Macaulay (Post-Contemporary Interventions) - Softcover

Under Western Eyes: India from Milton to Macaulay (Post-Contemporary Interventions)

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Buchbeschreibung paperback. Zustand: Sehr gut. 280 Seiten Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). Very good copy! - Spanning nearly two and a half centuries of English literature about India, Under Western Eyes traces the development of an imperial discourse that governed the English view of India well into the twentieth century. Narrating this history from its Reformation beginnings to its Victorian consolidation, Balachandra Rajan tracks this imperial presence through a wide range of literary and ideological sites. In so doing, he explores from a postcolonial vantage point collusions of gender, commerce, and empirewhile revealing the tensions, self-deceptions, and conflicts at work within the English imperial design.Rajan begins with the Portuguese poet Camões, whose poem celebrating Vasco da Gama's passage to India becomes, according to its eighteenth-century English translator, the epic of those who would possess India. He closely examines Milton's treatment of the Orient and Dryden's Aureng-Zebe,the first English literary work on an Indian subject. Texts by Shelley, Southey, Mill, and Macaulay, among others, come under careful scrutiny, as does Hegel's significant impact on English imperial discourse. Comparing the initial English representation of its actions in India (as a matter of commerce, not conquest) and its contemporaneous treatment of Ireland, Rajan exposes contradictions that shed new light on the English construction of a subaltern India. Contents: 1 The Lusiads and the Asian Reader 31 2 Banyan Trees and Fig Leaves: Some Thoughts on Milton's India 50 3 Appropriating India: Dryden's Great Mogul 67 4 James Mill and the Case of the Hottentot Venus 78 5 Hegel's India and the Surprise of Sin 100 6 Feminizing the Feminine: Early Women Writers on India 118 7 Monstrous Mythologies: Southey and The Curse of Kehama 139 8 Understanding Asia: Shelley's Prometheus Unbound 157 9 Macaulay: The Moment and the Minute 174 Afterword: From Center to Circumference 198 Notes 213 Index 261 ISBN 9780822322986 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 499. Artikel-Nr. 1233877

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