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Narrating cultural encounter : representation of India in select Enlightenment women writers /
by Chatterjee, Arnab
Series: Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature Physical details: xii, 196 p. ; 23 cm. ISBN: 0367714582 Subject(s): English prose literature %18th century %History and criticism. | English literature %Women authors %History and criticism. | Travelers' writings, English %India %History and criticism. | Colonies in literature. | Enlightenment. | India %In literature. | Literary criticism.| Item type | Location | Call Number | Status | Notes | Date Due |
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AUM Main Library English Collections Hall | 820.935854 C495 (Browse Shelf) | Available | 202500085 |
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"--
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