Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print

Rudd, A.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2011-01-01

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349313426

DOI: 10.1057/9780230306004

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 216