Flora Annie Steel : A Critical Study of an Unconventional Memsahib / ed. by Susmita Roye.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Banerjee, Amrita, Contributor.

Bauer, Helen Pike, Contributor.

Crane, Ralph, Contributor.

Goodwin, Gráinne, Contributor.

Johnson, Alan, Contributor.

Johnston, Anna, Contributor.

Nielsen, Danielle, Contributor.

Richardson, LeeAnne M., Contributor.

Roye, Susmita, Editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Place of Publication:

Edmonton : University of Alberta Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Flora Annie Steel (1847-1929) was a contemporary of Rudyard Kipling and rivaled his popularity as a writer during her lifetime, but her legacy faded due to gender-biased politics. She spent 22 years in India, mainly in the Punjab. This collection is the first to focus entirely on this "unconventional memsahib" and her contribution to turn-of-the-century Anglo-Indian literature. The eight essays draw attention to Steel's multifaceted work-ranging from fiction to journalism to letter writing, from housekeeping manuals to philanthropic activities. These essays, by recognized experts on her life and work, will appeal to interdisciplinary scholars and readers in the fields of British India and Women's Studies. Contributors: Amrita Banerjee, Helen Pike Bauer, Ralph Crane, Gráinne Goodwin, Alan Johnson, Anna Johnston, Danielle Nielsen, LeeAnne M. Richardson, Susmita Roye

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Women Who Serve in Times of Need: Recreating an Uprising in Flora Annie Steels Voices in the Night

2 The Other Voice: Agency of the Fallen Women in Flora Annie Steels Novels

3 Narrative Strategy as Hermeneutic: Reading In the Permanent Way as Colonial Theory

4 Flora Annie Steel and Indian Girlhood

5 The Transgressing Purdahnashin and Violated Purdah Space Kiplings Beyond the Pale and Steels Faizullah

6 Going Jungli Flora Annie Steels Wild Civility

7 How to Dine in India: Flora Annie Steels The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook and the Anglo-Indian Imagination

8 Yours truly, Flora Annie Steel Gender, Empire, and Indian Pressure Politics in the Timess Correspondence Columns, 18971910

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)

ISBN:

1-77212-324-2

OCLC:

966404582