The Stillbirth of Capital : Enlightenment Writing and Colonial India /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ahmed, Siraj Dean (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2012]
Subjects:	English literature > 18th century > History and criticism. India > In literature. Colonies in literature. Enlightenment. Great Britain > Colonies > Asia > History. India > History > British occupation, 1765-1947.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : the Enlightenment and colonial India
Sovereignty and monopoly in Dryden's Amboyna
Conversion and piracy in Defoe's Captain Singleton
Sentiment and debt in Sterne's Bramine's Journal and Foote's Nabob
Free trade and famine in the wealth of nations and Bentham's 'essay'
Nation and addiction in Burke's and Sheridan's speeches in the Hastings impeachment
Orientalism and the permanent fix of war : Voltaire contra Sir William Jones
History, anachronism, violence : Morgan's Missionary and Scott's Guy Mannering.