Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India (Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms)
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Language: English
Published by Columbia Univ Pr, 1992
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- Title
- Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India (Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms)
- Author
- Viswanathan, Gauri
- Publisher
- Columbia Univ Pr
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0231070853
- ISBN 13
- 9780231070850
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.
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Gauri Viswanathan is Professor of English and Comparative Litera\ ture at Columbia University.
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