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Author:

Kapila, Shuchi, 1964-

Title:

Educating Seeta : the Anglo-Indian family romance and the poetics of indirect rule / Shuchi Kapila.

Publisher:

Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

ix, 161 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Anglo-Indian literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Domestic fiction, English--19th century--History and criticism.
Indian women in literature.
Interracial marriage in literature.
Gardner, William Linneaus,--d. 1833--Criticism and interpretation.
Croker, B. M.--(Bithia Mary),--d. 1920--Criticism and interpretation.
Taylor, Meadows,--1808-1876--Criticism and interpretation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 148-157) and index.

Contents:

The poetics and politics of Anglo-Indian romance -- "Half an Asiatic" : William Linneaus Gardner and Anglo-Muslim domesticity -- The home and the bazaar : the Anglo-Indian novels of Bithia Mary Croker -- Family quarrels : the royal widows and the East India Company -- Educating Seeta : Philip Meadows Taylor's romances of empire -- Why romance matters.

Series:

Victorian critical interventions.

ISBN:

0814211267 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780814211267 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)468973721

LCCN:

2009052643

Locations:

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)