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Masks of Conquest
Literary Study and British Rule in India
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English
Published/Copyright:
2014
About this book
Describes the introduction of English studies in India under British rule and its function as an effective form of political control
Author / Editor information
Gauri Viswanathan is Class of 1933 Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. She is also the author of Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity, and Belief, which won the Harry Levin Prize awarded by the American Comparative Literature Association, the James Russell Lowell Prize awarded by the Modern Language Association of America, and the Ananda K. Coomaraswamy Prize awarded by the Association for Asian Studies. She coedits the series South Asia Across the Disciplines, published jointly by the university presses of Columbia, Chicago, and California.
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Brilliantly working out in local detail a conception of literary education as a 'strategy of containment,' Masks of Conquest adds significantly both to the history of English education in relation to literary representation, and to the ongoing critical revaluation of the role of 'Literature' in modern culture.
The great merit of Viswanathan's closely argued and admirably researched book is to show that the exigencies of managing an empire played a far more important role than has hitherto been recognized in the emergence of the discipline as a social practice.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Preface to the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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1. The Beginnings of English Literary Study
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2. Praeparatio Evangelica
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3. ″One Power, One Mind“
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4. Rewriting English
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5. Lessons of History
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6. The Failure of English
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7. Conclusion: Empire and the Western Canon
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Notes
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Select bibliography
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Index
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December 16, 2014
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9780231539579
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Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition
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240
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