Women Writers and the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1785-1835 Re-Orienting Anglo-India

Women Writers and the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1785-1835 Re-Orienting Anglo-India
ISBN-10
1472430891
ISBN-13
9781472430892
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
160
Language
English
Published
2014-11-01
Publisher
Lund Humphries Publishers
Author
Kathryn S. Freeman

Description

Tracing the literary relationship between British women and the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Kathryn Freeman argues that women writers, distinct from their male counterparts, interrogated Orientalist distortions of India through the lens of gender. Her study invites us to rethink the Romantic paradigm of canonical writers as replicators of Orientalists' cultural imperialism in favor of a more complicated stance that accommodates the differences between male and female authors with respect to India.

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