British India in the 1850s
(2023)
Book Chapter
All Outputs (3)
Satire, Militarism, and the Hunt: Appropriations of Thomas Moore in Sporting Bombay (2019)
Book Chapter
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.
Poetry of the Everyday: Comic Verse in the Nineteenth Century (2016)
Book Chapter
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.