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Colonialism, World Literature, and the Making of the Modern Culture of Letters
Language: en
Pages: 303
Authors: Baidik Bhattacharya
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-01-31 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book is a radical reimagination of the idea of the literary through colonial histories and world literature.
Colonialism, World Literature, and the Making of the Modern Culture of Letters
Language: en
Pages: 303
Authors: Baidik Bhattacharya
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-01-31 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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In a radical and ambitious reconceptualization of the field, this book argues that global literary culture since the eighteenth century was fundamentally shaped
Ruling the World
Language: en
Pages: 417
Authors: Alan Lester
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-01-07 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Reveals how the British Empire's governing men enforced their ideas of freedom, civilization and liberalism around the world.
Cosmopolitan Dreams
Language: en
Pages: 194
Authors: Jennifer Dubrow
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-31 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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In late nineteenth-century South Asia, the arrival of print fostered a dynamic and interactive literary culture. There, within the pages of Urdu-language period
Commonwealth of Letters
Language: en
Pages: 333
Authors: Peter J. Kalliney
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-19 - Publisher:

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Peter Kalliney's original archival work demonstrates that metropolitan and colonial intellectuals used modernist theories of aesthetic autonomy to facilitate co