Colonial voices [electronic resource] : the discourses of empire / Pramod K. Nayar.
Publication details: Chichester [England] ; Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.Description: viii, 264 pISBN:- 1444338560 (hbk. alk. paper)
- 9781444338652 (pbk. alk. paper)
- 144433865X (pbk. alk. paper)
- 9781444338560
- 9781118278994 (e-book)
- English literature -- History and criticism
- Imperialism in literature
- Colonies in literature
- National characteristics, English, in literature
- Exoticism in literature
- Other (Philosophy) in literature
- Discourse analysis, Narrative
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- In literature
- India -- In literature
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- India -- History
- 820.9/3585403 23
- PR149.I6 N38 2012eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-259) and index.
Introducing: colonial discourse -- Travel, exploration and discovery: from imagination to inquiry -- The discourse of difference: constructing the colonial exotic -- Empire management: from domestication to spectacle -- Civilizing the empire: colonialism and the ideology of moral-material progress -- Aesthetic understanding: from colonial English to imperial cosmopolitans.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.