Before the raj : writing early Anglophone India / James Mulholland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mulholland, James, 1975- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Newspaper publishing--India--History--18th century.

Newspaper publishing.

Journalism, Regional--India--History--18th century.

Journalism, Regional.

India--In literature.

India.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource 313 p.)

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2020]

Summary:

Revealing the vibrant literary culture that existed long before the characters of Rudyard Kipling's best-known works, Before the Raj reveals how these writers operated within a web of colonial cities and trading outposts that borrowed from one another and produced vital interlinked aesthetics.

Contents:

Multilingualism in the Java Government Gazette (1812-16)

The "Samarang Hurly-Burly"

Imitation in Early Nineteenth-Century Java

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Metropolitical Empire

Oriental Traits

Rewriting Tristram Shandy in Bombay

"Children of the Sun"

6. Agonies of Empire: Captivity Narratives and the Mysore Wars, 1767-1799

Mercenaries of Imperial Emotion and the Spectacle of the Jailed Author

Prison Poetry and Antiwar Sentiments

The Dancing Boys of Mysore

Captivity as Social Regeneration

7. Literary Culture of Colonial Outposts: Penang, Sumatra, and Java, 1771-1816

The Bay of Bengal and the Geography of "Greater India"

Outpost Aesthetics: William Marsden in Sumatra

Poetry and the Business of Newspapers

Multilingual Reading Publics

Punch Houses, Hookahs, and Cheroots

Literature's Infrastructure and the History of Conventional Forms

3. The Vagrant Muse: Making Reputation across Eurasia

Reading Charlotte Smith in Canton

Parnassus in Madras

Ruins, Relics, and the Near Eastern Past

Collaboration and Interimperial Assemblages

4. Undoing Britain in Bengal

A "British Brahma": Sir William Jones and the Politics of Translocalism

Rediscovering Liberty

A Della Cruscan in Calcutta

Forgetting Asia

5. Tristram Shandy in Bombay

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

A Note on Spelling and Usage

Introduction: Translocal Anglo-India

Translocal Regionalism in Anglo-India

Oceanic to Regional

Middle Reading

Bad Writing, Normal Literature, Boring Things

1. A Cultural Company-State and the Colonial Public Sphere

Why Now? 1765-1819

Who Were the Anglo-Indians?

Printers, Patrons, Readers, and Libraries

Sponsorship and Censorship

Making a Colonial Public Sphere

2. Newspaper Poetry and Reading Publics in Eighteenth-Century India

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4214-3961-1

OCLC:

1245669016