Romantic Representations of British India

<p>Michael J. Franklin's <em>Romantic Representations of British India</em> is a timely study of the impact of Orientalist knowledge upon British culture during the Romantic period. The subject of the book is not so much India, but the British cultural understanding of India, particularly between 1750 and 1850. Franklin opens up new areas of investigation in Romantic-period culture, as those texts previously located in the ghetto of ‘Anglo-Indian writing’ are restored to a central place in the wider field of Romanticism. The essays within this collection cover a wide range of topics and are written by an impressive troupe of contributors including P.J. Marshall, Anne Mellor, and Nigel Leask. Students and academics involved with literary studies and history will find this book extremely useful, though musicologists and historians of science and of religion will also make good use of the book, as will those interested in questions of gender, race, and colonialism. </p> <ol> <p> </p> <li>General Introduction and [Meta]historical Background [re]presenting 1</li> <p>‘The Palanquins of State; or, Broken Leaves in a Mughal Garden’</p> <p> </p> <li>British-Indian Connections c. 1780 to c. 1830: The Empire of the Officials </li> <p>Peter Marshall</p> <p> </p> <li>Torrents, Flames and the Education of Desire: Battling Hindu Superstition </li> <p>on the London Stage </p> <p>Daniel O'Quinn</p> <p> </p> <li>Between Mimesis and Alterity: Art Gift and Diplomacy in Colonial India 150</li> <p>Natasha Eaton</p> <p> </p> <li>Poetic Flowers/Indian Bowers </li> <p>Tim Fulford</p> <p> </p> <li>‘Where … success is certain’? Southey the literary East Indiaman’ </li> <p>Lynda Pratt,</p> <p> </p> <li>Radically Feminizing India: Phebe Gibbes’s Hartly House, Calcutta (1789) </li> <p>and Sydney Owenson’s The Missionary: An Indian Tale (1811)</p> <p>Michael J. Franklin</p> <p> </p> <li>Imperial Strains: Shelley and Music </li> <p>Tilar Mazzeo</p> <p> </p> <li>‘Very acute and plausible’: The Reception of Sir William Jones’s </li> <p>‘On the Musical Modes of the Hindus’ (1792)</p> <p>Bennett Zon</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <li>‘Traveling the Other Way’: The Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan (1810) </li> <p>and Romantic Orientalism </p> <p>Nigel Leask</p> <p> </p> <li>Orientalism, Militarism and Romanticism: Writing and Rewriting </li> <p>the History of the British Conquest of India </p> <p>Douglas Peers</p> <p> </p> <li>Orientalism and Religion in the Romantic Period: </li> </ol><p>Rammohun Ray’s Vedanta(s) </p><p>Amit Ray</p>