Overview
- Discusses a breadth of materials ranging from paintings to missionary tracts to literary texts by writers such as Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, and Maria Susanna Cummins
- Offers a vast appeal to scholars interested in American Studies, Asian Studies, South Asian Studies, Asian-American Studies, transatlantic studies, and postcolonial studies
- Breaks open a scholarly discussion that has been neglected about the shifting American attitudes towards India from 1780-1880
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: The New Urban Atlantic (NUA)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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India in the American Imaginary: Indo-American Encounters, 1780s–1880s
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Transatlantic Imperial Circuits: Trade, Missionary Activity, and the British East India Company
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The Imperial Imaginary: Indo-American Interactions in the Literary, Philosophical, and Political Sphere
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Imperial Publics: India in U.S. Reform Debates on Race, Slavery, and Labor
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Orientalist Imaginings: Royal India and American Fine Arts and Painting
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Rajender Kaur is Associate Professor of English at William Paterson University of New Jersey, USA, where she teaches courses in postcolonial, Asian American, British, and World literatures.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: India in the American Imaginary, 1780s–1880s
Editors: Anupama Arora, Rajender Kaur
Series Title: The New Urban Atlantic
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62334-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-62333-7Published: 20 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87293-3Published: 31 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-62334-4Published: 09 November 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 292
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Postcolonial/World Literature, Comparative Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Asian Literature