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Indian angles [electronic resource] : English verse in colonial India from Jones to Tagore / Mary Ellis Gibson.

By: Gibson, Mary Ellis, 1952-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Athens : Ohio University Press, 2011Description: xv, 334 p. : ill.Subject(s): Anglo-Indian poetry -- History and criticism | Indic poetry (English) -- History and criticism | Colonies in literature | India -- In literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 821.009/954 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Introduction -- Part One. Languages, tropes, and landscape in the beginnings of English language poetry: Contact poetics in eighteenth-century Calcutta: Sir William Jones, John Horsford, and Anna Maria; Bards and sybils: landscape, gender, and the culture of dispute in the poems of H. L. V. Derozio and Emma Roberts -- Part two. The institutions of colonial mimesis, 1830/1857: Books, reading, and the profession of letters: David Lester Richardson and the construction of a British canon in India; sighing, or not, for albion: Kasiprasad Ghosh, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, and Mary Carshore -- Part three. Nationalisms, religion, and aestheticism in the late nineteenth century: From Christian piety to cosmopolitan nationalisms: the Dutt family album and the poems of Mary E. Leslie and Toru Dutt; cosmopolitanism, nationalism, and aestheticism in fin-de-siècle London: Manmohan Ghose, Sarojini Naidu, and Rabindranath Tagore.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Part One. Languages, tropes, and landscape in the beginnings of English language poetry: Contact poetics in eighteenth-century Calcutta: Sir William Jones, John Horsford, and Anna Maria; Bards and sybils: landscape, gender, and the culture of dispute in the poems of H. L. V. Derozio and Emma Roberts -- Part two. The institutions of colonial mimesis, 1830/1857: Books, reading, and the profession of letters: David Lester Richardson and the construction of a British canon in India; sighing, or not, for albion: Kasiprasad Ghosh, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, and Mary Carshore -- Part three. Nationalisms, religion, and aestheticism in the late nineteenth century: From Christian piety to cosmopolitan nationalisms: the Dutt family album and the poems of Mary E. Leslie and Toru Dutt; cosmopolitanism, nationalism, and aestheticism in fin-de-siècle London: Manmohan Ghose, Sarojini Naidu, and Rabindranath Tagore.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.