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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Indology: Discovery, Ethnography, Pathology
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Front Matter
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Indopoesis: Poetry, Drama, Romance
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Keywords
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'In 1614, Samuel Purchas noted that India was a term that had begun to be used to describe 'all farre-distant Countries.' This volume is a careful, thought-provoking and wide-ranging analysis of the meaning, implications and consequences of that usage. It uncovers the astonishing diversity of peoples and locations signified by the term in early modern English writings. Even more important, it tracks the connections between the different 'Indians' forged through material as well as imaginative channels. 'India' and 'Indians' emerge as important points of entry into the early histories and discourses of globalization. An important and illuminating book.' - Ania Loomba, Catherine Bryson Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
"The geographic miscalculation that persuaded Columbus to identify the New World as part of 'India' is at once so gross and so familiar that its imaginative consequences have never seemed to deserve serious consideration. The brilliant tessellation of essays that make up Indography show how mistaken that neglect has been. By opening a fascinating variety of perspectives on the many 'Indias' of the Renaissance imaginary, Gil Harris and his contributors promise to transform our understanding of early modern ethnography and its relation to the discourses of trade and empire." - Michael Neill, emeritus professor of English, University of Auckland
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Indography
Book Subtitle: Writing the "Indian" in Early Modern England
Editors: Jonathan Gil Harris
Series Title: Signs of Race
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137090768
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-34137-1Published: 24 April 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-09076-8Published: 07 May 2012
Series ISSN: 2945-6312
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6320
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 271
Topics: Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Literature, general, History of Britain and Ireland, European History, British and Irish Literature