Gibson, Mary Ellis, 1952-

Indian angles English verse in colonial India from Jones to Tagore / [electronic resource] : Mary Ellis Gibson. - Athens : Ohio University Press, 2011. - xv, 334 p. : ill.

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.


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Anglo-Indian poetry--History and criticism.
Indic poetry (English)--History and criticism.
Colonies in literature.


India--In literature.


Electronic books.

PR9490.4 / .G53 2011eb

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