Civility and Empire: Literature and Culture in British India, 1821-1921
, by Roy,AnindyoNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780415646666 | 0415646669
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- Copyright: 9/11/2014
This book addresses the idea of 'civility' as a manifestation of the fluidity and ambivalence of imperial power as reflected in British colonial literature and culture. Discussions of Anglo-Indian romances of 1880-1900, E.M. Forster's The Life to Comeand Leonard Woolf's writings show how the appeal to civility had a significant effect on the constitution of colonial subject-hood and reveals 'civility' as an ideal trope for the ambivalence of imperial power itself.