Civility and empire : literature and culture in British India, 1822-1922

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    • Roy, Anindyo

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Civility and empire : literature and culture in British India, 1822-1922

Anindyo Roy

(Routledge research in postcolonial literatures, 7)

Routledge, 2005

  • : cloth

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [200]-212) and index

Contents of Works

  • Colonial civility and the regulation of social desire
  • Writing the liberal self : colonial civility and disciplinary regime
  • Policing the boundaries : civility and gender in the Anglo-Indian romances, 1880-1900
  • Savage pursuits : missionary civility and colonization in E.M. Forster's "The life to come"
  • Civility and the colonial state of body in Leonard Woolf

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Description

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.

Table of Contents

1. Colonial Civility and the Regulation of Social Desire 2. Writing the Liberal Self in John Stuart Mill: Colonial Civility and Disciplinary Regime 3. Policing the Boubdaries: Civility and Gender in the Anglo-Indian Romances, 1880-1900 4. 'Savage Pursuit': Missionary Civility and Colonization in E. M. Forster's The Life to Come 5. Civility and the Colonial Body/State in Leonard Woolf

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