Civility and Empire: Literature and Culture in British India, 1821-1921 (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures) - Softcover

Roy, Anindyo

 
9780415646666: Civility and Empire: Literature and Culture in British India, 1821-1921 (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0415646669 ISBN 13: 9780415646666
Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

This book addresses the idea of 'civility' as a manifestation of the fluidity and ambivalence of imperial power as reflected in British colonial literature and culture. Discussions of Anglo-Indian romances of 1880-1900, E.M. Forster's The Life to Come and Leonard Woolf's writings show how the appeal to civility had a significant effect on the constitution of colonial subject-hood and reveals 'civility' as an ideal trope for the ambivalence of imperial power itself.

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About the Author

Anindyo Roy is Associate Professor in English at Colby College, Maine, USA, where he teaches critical and postcolonial theory, and postcolonial and modern British literature.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415646669
ISBN 13 
9780415646666
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
224