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Book SynopsisAnglo-India's regional literature was both a practical and imaginative response to a pivotal period in the early colonialism of South Asia. Awarded as Honorable Mention of the Louis Gottschalk Prize by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS). Shortlisted for the Kenshur Prize by the Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Indiana University, John Ben Snow Prize by the North American Conference on British Studies, Marilyn Gaull Book Award by the Wordsworth-Coleridge Association. During the later decades of the eighteenth century, a rapid influx of English-speaking Europeans arrived in India with an interest in expanding the creation and distribution of anglophone literature. At the same time, a series of military, political, and economic successes for the British in Asia created the first global crisis to shepherd in an international system of national ideologies. In this study of colonial literary production, James Mulholland proposes that the East India Company
Trade ReviewBy excavating [archives] and reading it from new theoretical positions (like translocal regionalism and middle reading), Mulholland is giving us a shing example in how to engage in that kind of scholarship in
Before for Raj.
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Eighteenth-Century IntelligencerTable of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
A Note on Spelling and Usage
Introduction. Translocal Anglo-India
Chapter 1. A Cultural Company-State and the Colonial Public Sphere
Chapter 2. Newspaper Poetry and Reading Publics in Eighteenth-Century India
Chapter 3. The Vagrant Muse: Making Reputation across Eurasia
Chapter 4. Undoing Britain in Bengal
Chapter 5. Tristram Shandy in Bombay
Chapter 6. Agonies of Empire: Captivity Narratives and the Mysore Wars, 1767–1799
Chapter 7. Literary Culture of Colonial Outposts: Penang, Sumatra, and Java, 1771–1816
Notes
Bibliography
Index
