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.
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