British India and Victorian Literary Culture

Máire ni Fhlathúin is a Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Nottingham.

• Acknowledgements; A Note on Terms; Introduction; I: Experiences of India; 1. The Literary Marketplace of British India: 1780–1844; 2. Exile; 3. Consuming and Being Consumed; II: Representations of India; 4. European Nationalism and British India; 5. Romantic Heroes and Colonial Bandits; 6. Imagining India through Annals and Antiquities of Rajast’han; 7. Transformations of India after the Indian Mutiny; Afterword: Reading India; Bibliography

In sum, ní Fhlathúin’s work shows the complexities in British writers’ per-ceptions of India, derived from their lived experiences in India, their knowledge of indigenous history, and their engagement with existing colonial discourses, literary tropes, and genres. By giving us a clear picture of how colonial litera-ture in British India is produced throughout the 19th century, her comprehensive study has already offered an impartial way of perceiving the Other.