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Late Orientalist Poetry and Politics: India in the Colonial Literary Culture of the 1830s

n� Fhlath�in, M�ire

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As British rule in India took an increasingly Anglicist and Utilitarian-influenced turn in the 1830s, there nevertheless persisted some remnants of the Orientalist approach to Indian culture associated with the scholarship of William Jones. This essay explores the work of William Francis Thompson (1810-1842), whose poetry and literary translations develop an unusually sympathetic identification with both colonizer and colonized subjects. It argues that Thompson’s recognition of parallels between European and Indian nationalism enables an alternative perception of British rule; and that his work highlights the eclectic and complex character of the colonial literary culture of British India.

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ní Fhlathúin, M. (2020). Late Orientalist Poetry and Politics: India in the Colonial Literary Culture of the 1830s. Modern Language Review, 115(4), 809-833. https://doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.115.4.0809

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date May 20, 2020
Online Publication Date Oct 1, 2020
Publication Date 2020
Deposit Date May 26, 2020
Publicly Available Date Oct 2, 2021
Journal The Modern Language Review
Print ISSN 0026-7937
Electronic ISSN 2222-4319
Publisher Modern Humanities Research Association
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 115
Issue 4
Pages 809-833
DOI https://doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.115.4.0809
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/4512976
Publisher URL https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5699/modelangrevi.115.4.0809?seq=1
Additional Information Fhlathúin. (2020). Late Orientalist Poetry and Politics: India in the Colonial Literary Culture of the 1830s. The Modern Language Review, 115(4), 809. https://doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.115.4.0809

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