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Author:

Freeman, Kathryn S., 1958- author.

Title:

British women writers and the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1785-1835 : re-orienting Anglo-India / Kathryn S. Freeman, University of Miami, USA.

Publisher:

Ashgate Publishing Company,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

viii, 151 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

English literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Authorship--History--History--18th century.
Authorship--History--History--19th century.
Asiatic Society of Bengal.
Orientalism in literature.
India--In literature.
Asiatic Society--Kalkutta.
Englisch.
Frauenliteratur.
Indien.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-143) and index.

Contents:

The Asiatic Society of Bengal: "beyond the stretch of labouring thought sublime" -- "Out of that narrow and contracted path": creativity and authority in Elizabeth Hamilton's translations of the letters of a Hindoo rajah -- Confronting sacrrifice, resisting the sentimental: sensibility, imperialism, and romantic masculinity in the Anglo-Indian novels of Phebe Gibbes and Sidney Owenson -- Female authorship in the Anglo-Indian meta-drama of Mariana Starke's The sword of peace (1788) and The widow of Malabar (1791) -- Epilogue: Lost and found in translation: re-orienting the revolutionary period through women writers in early Anglo-India.

ISBN:

9781472430892
1472430891 (electronic bk.)
9781472430908
1472430905 (electronic bk.)
1472430883 (hbk)
9781472430885 (hbk)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)871536377

LCCN:

2014001011

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)