{"product_id":"english-writing-and-india-1600-1920-pramod-k-nayar-9780415409193","title":"English Writing and India, 1600-1920: Colonizing Aesthetics","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the formations and configurations of British colonial discourse on India through a reading of prose narratives of the 1600-1920 period. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArguing that colonial discourse often relied on aesthetic devices in order to describe and assert a degree of narrative control over Indian landscape, Pramod Nayar demonstrates how aesthetics furnished a vocabulary and representational modes for the British to construct particular images of India.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLooking specifically at the aesthetic modes of the marvellous, the monstrous, the sublime, the picturesque and the luxuriant, Nayar marks the shift in the rhetoric - from the exploration narratives from the age of mercantile exploration to that of the 'shikar' memoirs of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century's extreme exotic. \u003cem\u003eEnglish Writing and India\u003c\/em\u003e provides an important new study of colonial aesthetics, even as it extends current scholarship on the modes of early British representations of new lands and cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pramod K. Nayar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415409195\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415409193\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.09lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d","brand":"Pramod K. Nayar","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48136082653439,"sku":"9780415409193","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_38a39266-f8a9-4548-9f5e-fcdeee5161fa.jpg?v=1770160395","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/english-writing-and-india-1600-1920-pramod-k-nayar-9780415409193","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}