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Chatterjee, Arnab (Professor of English),
Narrating cultural encounter : representation of India in select Enlightenment women writers / Arnab Chatterjee. - xii, 196 p. ; 23 cm. - Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature .
Originally presented as the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Visva-Bharati University, 2019.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
British women writers and India vis-a-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"--
9780367714581 9781032112008 9781003152125
English prose literature--History and criticism.--18th century
English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
Travelers' writings, English--History and criticism.--India
Colonies in literature.
Enlightenment.
India--In literature.
Literary criticism.
PR448.I534 / C47 2021
820.935854 / C495
Narrating cultural encounter : representation of India in select Enlightenment women writers / Arnab Chatterjee. - xii, 196 p. ; 23 cm. - Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature .
Originally presented as the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Visva-Bharati University, 2019.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
British women writers and India vis-a-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"--
9780367714581 9781032112008 9781003152125
English prose literature--History and criticism.--18th century
English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
Travelers' writings, English--History and criticism.--India
Colonies in literature.
Enlightenment.
India--In literature.
Literary criticism.
PR448.I534 / C47 2021
820.935854 / C495