{"product_id":"before-the-raj-9781421439617","title":"Before the Raj","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnglo-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 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy 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 \u003ci\u003eBefore for Raj\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eEighteenth-Century Intelligencer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eA Note on Spelling and Usage\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction. Translocal Anglo-India\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. A Cultural Company-State and the Colonial Public Sphere\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Newspaper Poetry and Reading Publics in Eighteenth-Century India\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. The Vagrant Muse: Making Reputation across Eurasia\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Undoing Britain in Bengal \u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. \u003ci\u003eTristram Shandy\u003c\/i\u003e in Bombay\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Agonies of Empire: Captivity Narratives and the Mysore Wars, 1767–1799\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. Literary Culture of Colonial Outposts: Penang, Sumatra, and Java, 1771–1816\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408140476759,"sku":"9781421439617","price":35.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421439617.jpg?v=1730501734","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/before-the-raj-9781421439617","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}