Civility and Empire: Literature and Culture in British India, 1821-1921

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Literary studies: post-colonia

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Wordery

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Taylor & francis

Civility and Empire: Literature and Culture in British India, 1821-1921 : Routledge : 9780415646666 : 0415646669 : 12 Sep 2014 : This book addresses the idea of 'civility' as a manifestation of the fluidity and ambivalence of imperial power as reflected in British colonial literature and culture. Discussions of Anglo-Indian romances of 1880-1900, E.M. Forster's The Life to Come and Leonard Woolf's writings show how the appeal to civility had a significant effect on the constitution of colonial subject-hood and reveals 'civility' as an ideal trope for the ambivalence of imperial power itself.

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