Narrating Cultural Encounter

This book interrogates and historicises eighteenth-century British women writers' responses to India through the novel and travel writing, to bring out the polyvalent space arising out of their complex negotiation with the colonial discourse.

Autorentext

Arnab Chatterjee works as an Assistant Professor of English at Harishchandrapur College, Malda. Having completed graduate and post-graduate degrees at Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, he joined Sabang Sajanikanta Mahavidyalaya, Paschim Medinipur, as a substitute teacher for a term of two years under the UGC Faculty Development Programme. He was awarded a Ph.D by Visva-Bharati University in 2019 for his doctoral dissertation titled "Representation of India in Select British Women Novelists and Travel Writers of the Long Eighteenth Century". Chatterjee's areas of interest include literatures of the Enlightenment, travel writing, theatre studies and history of ideas.

Inhalt

Introduction

Chapter 1 British Women Writers and India Vis-à-Vis the Context of the Enlightenment

Chapter 2 "Enchanting Quarter of the Globe": Representation of India in Phebe Gibbes's Hartly House, Calcutta

Chapter 3 "A Presumptuous Effort": Representation of India in Translations of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah

Chapter 4 "My Indian Venture": Representation of India in Lady Morgan's The Missionary: An Indian Tale

Chapter 5 Mapping the Gaze of the British Women Travellers: Representation of India in Jemima Kindersley and Eliza Fay

Conclusion