English Writing and India, 1600-1920: Colonizing Aesthetics

by Pramod K. Nayar

Book Overview

This book explores the formations and configurations of British colonial discourse on India through a reading of prose narratives of the 1600-1920 period.

Arguing that colonial discourse often relied on aesthetic devices in order to describe and assert a degree of narrative control over Indian landscape, Pramod Nayar demonstrates how aesthetics furnished a vocabulary and representational modes for the British to construct particular images...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415759536
• ISBN13: 9780415759533
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"