Anxieties of Empire and the fiction of intrigue /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Siddiqi, Yumna
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2008]
Subjects:	English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism. English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. English fiction > South Asian authors > History and criticism. Intrigue in literature. Espionage in literature. Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 20th century. Imperialism in literature. Postcolonialism in literature. Anxiety in literature.
Online Access:	Table of contents only

Table of Contents:

Colonial anxieties and the fiction of intrigue
Imperial intrigue in an English country house
Sherlock Holmes and "the cesspool of Empire": the return of the repressed
The fiction of counterinsurgency
Intermezzo: postcolonial modernity and the fiction of intrigue
Police and postcolonial rationality in Amitav Ghosh's The circle of reason
"Deep in blood": Roy, Rushdie, and the representation of state violence in India
"The unhistorical dead": violence, history, and narrative in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's ghost
Conclusion: "power smashes into private lives": cultural politics in the new Empire.