Colonial voices : the discourses of empire /

• Main Author: Nayar, Pramod K.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
• Subjects: 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.; British colonies.; English literature.; Literature.; Great Britain > Colonies > In literature.; India > In literature.; Great Britain > Colonies > India > History.; India.; Electronic books.; Criticism, interpretation, etc.; History.

Table of Contents:

• 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.