Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India (Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms) - Softcover

Viswanathan, Gauri

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0231070853 ISBN 13: 9780231070850

Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr, 1992

Synopsis

A revision of the author's Ph.D thesis (Columbia U.) in which she examines the history of English literature instruction in India, how English studies became an instrument of political control, and the continuing implications of the uses to which literary works were put in the service of British imperialism. Originally published (cloth) in 1989. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

About this title

About the Author:

Gauri Viswanathan is Professor of English and Comparative Litera\ ture at Columbia University.

Review:

"Will make a significant contribution to the field."--Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University
"Intellectually lively and well written."--Richard Fox, Duke University
"Will make a significant contribution to the field."--Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University
"Intellectually lively and well written."--Richard Fox, Duke University
"Will make a significant contribution to the field."--Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University
"Intellectually lively and well written."--Richard Fox, Duke University
"Will make a significant contribution to the field."--Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University
"Intellectually lively and well written."--Richard Fox, Duke University

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0231070853
• ISBN 13: 9780231070850
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 206