Title: Late Orientalist Poetry and Politics: India in the Colonial Literary Culture of the 1830s
Abstract:As British rule in India took an increasingly Anglicist and Utilitarian-influenced turn in the 1830s, there nevertheless persisted some remnants of the Orientalist approach to Indian culture associate...As British rule in India took an increasingly Anglicist and Utilitarian-influenced turn in the 1830s, there nevertheless persisted some remnants of the Orientalist approach to Indian culture associated with the scholarship of William Jones. This article explores the work of William Francis Thompson (1810–1842), whose poetry and literary translations develop an unusually sympathetic identification with both colonizer and colonized subjects. It argues that Thompson's recognition of parallels between European and Indian nationalism enables an alternative perception of British rule; and that his work highlights the eclectic and complex character of the colonial literary culture of British India.Read More
Publication Year: 2020
Publication Date: 2020-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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