British women writers and the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1785-1835: re-orienting Anglo-India : Kathryn S. Freeman, University of Miami, USA.
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2014Description: viii, 151 pages ; 24 cmSubject(s): Asiatic Society of Bengal | English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism | English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism | English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Authorship -- Sex differences -- History -- 18th century | Authorship -- Sex differences -- History -- 19th century | Orientalism in literature | India -- In literatureDDC classification: 820.99287 LOC classification: PR448.W65 | F74 2014| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Nalanda University Language and Literature | School of languages and Literature/Humanities Studies | 820.99287 F8774 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 008624 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-143) and index.
The Asiatic Society of Bengal: "beyond the stretch of labouring thought sublime" -- "Out of that narrow and contracted path": creativity and authority in Elizabeth Hamilton's translations of the letters of a Hindoo rajah -- Confronting sacrrifice, resisting the sentimental: sensibility, imperialism, and romantic masculinity in the Anglo-Indian novels of Phebe Gibbes and Sidney Owenson -- Female authorship in the Anglo-Indian meta-drama of Mariana Starke's The sword of peace (1788) and The widow of Malabar (1791) -- Epilogue: Lost and found in translation: re-orienting the revolutionary period through women writers in early Anglo-India.
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