Ireland, India and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature

by Julia M. Wright

Book Overview

In this innovative study Julia M. Wright addresses rarely asked questions: how and why does one colonized nation write about another? Wright focuses on the way nineteenth-century Irish writers wrote about India, showing how their own experience of colonial subjection and unfulfilled national aspirations informed their work. Their writings express sympathy with the colonised or oppressed people of India in order to unsettle nineteenth-century imperialist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521114594
• ISBN13: 9780521114592
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"