British women writers and the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1785-1835 :

Freeman, Kathryn S.,

British women writers and the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1785-1835 : re-orienting Anglo-India / Kathryn S. Freeman, University of Miami, USA. - 1st ed : - England : Ashgate : 2014. - viii, 151 p ; hbk,

The Asiatic Society of Bengal: "beyond the stretch of labouring thought sublime" -- "Out of that narrow and contracted path": creativity and authority in Elizabeth Hamilton's translations of the letters of a Hindoo rajah -- Confronting sacrrifice, resisting the sentimental: sensibility, imperialism, and romantic masculinity in the Anglo-Indian novels of Phebe Gibbes and Sidney Owenson -- Female authorship in the Anglo-Indian meta-drama of Mariana Starke's The sword of peace (1788) and The widow of Malabar (1791) -- Epilogue: Lost and found in translation: re-orienting the revolutionary period through women writers in early Anglo-India.

9781472430885 (hbk)


English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
English literature--History and criticism.
English literature--History and criticism.
Authorship--Sex differences--History
Authorship--Sex differences--History
Orientalism in literature.

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