Nayar, Pramod K.

Colonial voices : the discourses of empire / Pramod K. Nayar. - West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. - viii, 263 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-259) and index.

Introducing: colonial discourse -- Travel, exploration and discovery: from imagination to inquiry -- The discourse of difference: constructing the colonial exotic -- Empire management: from domestication to spectacle -- Civilizing the empire: colonialism and the ideology of moral-material progress -- Aesthetic understanding: from colonial English to imperial cosmopolitans.

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English literature--History and criticism.
Imperialism in literature.
Colonies in literature.
National characteristics, English, in literature.
Exoticism in literature.
Other (Philosophy) in literature.
Discourse analysis, Narrative.


Great Britain--Colonies--In literature.
India--In literature.
Great Britain--Colonies--History.--India