Goodyear, Sara Suleri

The rhetoric of English India / Sara Suleri. - 230 pages ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-219) and index.

Acknowledgments.--1. The rhetoric of English India.--2. Edmund Burke and the Indian sublime.--3. Reading the trial of Warren Hastings.--4. The feminine picturesque.--5. The adolescence of Kim.--6. Foster's imperial erotic.--7. Naipaul's arrival.-- 8. Salman Rushdie: Embodiments of blasphemy, censorships of shame.--Notes.--Index.

0226779823 0226779831 9780226779829 9780226779836


Indic literature (English)--History and criticism
Anglo-Indian literature--History and criticism
English literature--Indic influences.
English language--Rhetoric--India
Imperialism in literature.
British--History--India
Colonies in literature.


India--In literature

PR9484.3 / .S85 1992