"Alien Homage": Edward Thompson and Rabindranath Tagore (Oxford India Paperbacks) - Softcover

Thompson, E. P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195647467 ISBN 13: 9780195647464

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1999

Synopsis

Edward John Thompson, a young English poet and Wesleyan missionary, wrote the first major English-language critical study of Tagore's poetry. This study by E.P. Thompson draws on his father's extensive collection of letters and journals to throw light on the unusual relationship between the two men and, by extension, between British and Bengali culture.

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About the Author

The late E.P. Thompson was an eminent British historian; author of The Making of the English Working Classes and Customs in Common

Review

It is the great achievement of E.P. Thompson's book that it so credibly contest that too predictable model. Thompson pere in fact emerges from `Alien Homage' as a highly complex figure, ... a deeply challenging intervention in current debates about the nature of colonial literary cultures. * R.J. Dingley. University of New England, New South Wales. Notes and Queries * Dr Thompson has written a surprisingly detached and objective study in Alien Homage. The correspondence he had recently unearthed does provide a highly interesting picture of what he inelegantly calls the "interface" between Bengali and British cultures, especially before and after the last turn of the century. * Times Literary Supplement *

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195647467
• ISBN 13: 9780195647464
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 186