Transformations of Byron in the literature of British India

Ni Fhlathuin, Maire

doi:10.1017/S1060150314000151

All Outputs (7)

British India in the 1850s (2023)
Book Chapter
Ni Fhlathuin, M. (in press). British India in the 1850s. In Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: the 1850s. Cambridge University Press

Late Orientalist Poetry and Politics: India in the Colonial Literary Culture of the 1830s (2020)
Journal Article
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

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 essa... Read More about Late Orientalist Poetry and Politics: India in the Colonial Literary Culture of the 1830s.

Satire, Militarism, and the Hunt: Appropriations of Thomas Moore in Sporting Bombay (2019)
Book Chapter
Ni Fhlathuin, M. (2019). Satire, Militarism, and the Hunt: Appropriations of Thomas Moore in Sporting Bombay. In S. McCleave, & T. O'Hanlon (Eds.), The Reputations of Thomas Moore: Poetry, Music and PoliticsTaylor & Francis (Routledge)

Moore’s works – especially the Irish Melodies – were read, reviewed, and imitated across British India during the nineteenth century. This essay outlines Moore’s place within the cultural field of the colony, tracing the ways in which his Orientalisi... Read More about Satire, Militarism, and the Hunt: Appropriations of Thomas Moore in Sporting Bombay.

The Griffin (1820) and Other Works (2018)
Book
Morris, T. D. (2018). M. N. Fhlathúin (Ed.), The Griffin (1820) and Other Works. Romantic Circles

This edition showcases the poetry of Thomas D’Arcy Morris (1792-1835), a significant figure in the Bombay literary scene of the early nineteenth century. It identifies and attributes Morris’s works, originally published anonymously or pseudonymously... Read More about The Griffin (1820) and Other Works.

Poetry of the Everyday: Comic Verse in the Nineteenth Century (2016)
Book Chapter
Ní Fhlathúin, . M. (2016). Poetry of the Everyday: Comic Verse in the Nineteenth Century. A History of Indian Poetry in English (98-113). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139940887.007

When David Lester Richardson compiled the “British-Indian Poetry” section of his Selections from the British Poets (the first attempt to anthologize the poetry of British India) in 1840, he included no comic poetry. Despite the fact that humorous ver... Read More about Poetry of the Everyday: Comic Verse in the Nineteenth Century.

British India and Victorian literary culture (2015)
Book
ní Fhlathúin, M. (2015). British India and Victorian literary culture. Edinburgh University Press

British India and Victorian Culture extends current scholarship on the Victorian period with a wide-ranging and innovative analysis of the literature of British India. The book traces the development of Anglo-Indian writing from its genesis in the... Read More about British India and Victorian literary culture.

Transformations of Byron in the literature of British India (2014)
Journal Article
Ni Fhlathuin, M. (2014). Transformations of Byron in the literature of British India. Victorian Literature and Culture, 42(3), 573-593. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1060150314000151

This essay examines the reception of Byron’s work, and some responses to it, among the poets of the British community in India during the first half of the nineteenth century. The first section sketches some of the routes by which Byron’s work and a... Read More about Transformations of Byron in the literature of British India.