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Sympathy and India in British Literature, 1770-1830 /

India was the object of intense sympathetic concern during the Romantic period. But what was the true nature of imaginative engagement with British India? This study explores how a range of authors, from Edmund Burke and Sir William Jones to Robert Southey and Thomas Moore, sought to come to terms w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rudd, Andrew (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Series:Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print.
Subjects:
Literature.
Asian History.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Imperialism and Colonialism.
Modern History.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
History, Modern.
Imperialism.
Literature, Modern > 19th century.
Literature, Modern.
Asia > History.
Great Britain > History.
Electronic books.
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Summary:India was the object of intense sympathetic concern during the Romantic period. But what was the true nature of imaginative engagement with British India? This study explores how a range of authors, from Edmund Burke and Sir William Jones to Robert Southey and Thomas Moore, sought to come to terms with India's strangeness and distance from Britain.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 216 pages)
ISBN:9780230306004
DOI:10.1057/9780230306004