British orientalisms, 1759-1835 / James Watt.

Call Number	303.48/2410509033
Author	Watt, James, author.
Title	British orientalisms, 1759-1835 / James Watt.
Physical Description	1 online resource (vii, 285 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Series	Cambridge studies in Romanticism
Notes	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 Jul 2019).
Contents	Introduction: Britain, empire, and 'openness' to the East -- 'Those islanders' : British orientalisms and the Seven Years' War -- 'Indian details' : fictions of British India, 1774-1789 -- 'All Asia is covered in prisons' : Oriental despotism and British liberty in an age of revolutions -- 'In love with the Gopia' : Sir William Jones and his contemporaries -- 'Imperial dotage' and poetic ornament in romantic orientalist verse narrative -- Cockney translation : Leigh Hunt and Charles Lamb's eastern imaginings -- 'It is otherwise in Asia' : 'character' and improvement in picaresque fiction -- Conclusion: British orientalisms, empire, and improvement.
Summary	How did Britons understand their relationship with the East in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? James Watt's new study remaps the literary history of British Orientalisms between 1759, the 'year of victories' in the Seven Years' War, and 1835, when T. B. Macaulay published his polemical 'Minute on Indian Education'. It explores the impact of the war on Britons' cultural horizons, and the different and shifting ways in which Britons conceived of themselves and their nation as 'open' to the East across this period. Considering the emergence of new forms and styles of writing in the context of an age of empire and revolution, Watt examines how the familiar 'Eastern' fictions of the past were adapted, reworked, and reacted against. In doing so he illuminates the larger cultural conflict which animated a nation debating with itself about its place in the world and relation to its others.
Subject	Orientalism Great Britain History. British India Intellectual life 18th century. British India Intellectual life 19th century. Orientalism in Literature. East and West. Great Britain Intellectual life 18th century. Great Britain Intellectual life 19th century. India History British occupation, 1765-1947 Historiography. Great Britain Foreign relations India. India Foreign relations Great Britain.
Multimedia	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108560924

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Summary	How did Britons understand their relationship with the East in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? James Watt's new study remaps the literary history of British Orientalisms between 1759, the 'year of victories' in the Seven Years' War, and 1835, when T. B. Macaulay published his polemical 'Minute on Indian Education'. It explores the impact of the war on Britons' cultural horizons, and the different and shifting ways in which Britons conceived of themselves and their nation as 'open' to the East across this period. Considering the emergence of new forms and styles of writing in the context of an age of empire and revolution, Watt examines how the familiar 'Eastern' fictions of the past were adapted, reworked, and reacted against. In doing so he illuminates the larger cultural conflict which animated a nation debating with itself about its place in the world and relation to its others.
Notes	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 Jul 2019).
Contents	Introduction: Britain, empire, and 'openness' to the East -- 'Those islanders' : British orientalisms and the Seven Years' War -- 'Indian details' : fictions of British India, 1774-1789 -- 'All Asia is covered in prisons' : Oriental despotism and British liberty in an age of revolutions -- 'In love with the Gopia' : Sir William Jones and his contemporaries -- 'Imperial dotage' and poetic ornament in romantic orientalist verse narrative -- Cockney translation : Leigh Hunt and Charles Lamb's eastern imaginings -- 'It is otherwise in Asia' : 'character' and improvement in picaresque fiction -- Conclusion: British orientalisms, empire, and improvement.
Subject	Orientalism Great Britain History. British India Intellectual life 18th century. British India Intellectual life 19th century. Orientalism in Literature. East and West. Great Britain Intellectual life 18th century. Great Britain Intellectual life 19th century. India History British occupation, 1765-1947 Historiography. Great Britain Foreign relations India. India Foreign relations Great Britain.
Multimedia	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108560924