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Sympathy and India in British Literature, 1770-1830

By:A. Rudd
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780230233393
eText ISBN:9780230306004
Edition:0
Copyright:2011
Format:Page Fidelity

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India was the object of intense sympathetic concern during the Romantic period. But what was the true nature of imaginative engagement with British India? This study explores how a range of authors, from Edmund Burke and Sir William Jones to Robert Southey and Thomas Moore, sought to come to terms with India's strangeness and distance from Britain.