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Anxieties of Empire and the fiction ...

Siddiqi, Yumna.

Anxieties of Empire and the fiction of intrigue /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Anxieties of Empire and the fiction of intrigue /Yumna Siddiqi.
Author:	Siddiqi, Yumna.
Published:	New York :Columbia University Press,c2008.
Description:	xi, 290 p. ;24 cm.
Subject:	Literature and societyHistory19th century.Great Britain
Online resource:	http://www.igpublish.com/columbia-ebooks/Book.nsp?cid_BOOKCODE=DEMOCOLB0001323&cid_BOOKPAGE=1
ISBN:	9780231138086 (cloth : alk. paper)

Anxieties of Empire and the fiction of intrigue /
Siddiqi, Yumna.

Anxieties of Empire and the fiction of intrigue /Yumna Siddiqi. - New York :Columbia University Press,c2008. - xi, 290 p. ;24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-268) and index.

Colonial anxieties and the fiction of intrigue -- Imperial intrigue in an English country house -- Sherlock Holmes and "the cesspool of Empire": the return of the repressed -- The fiction of counterinsurgency -- Intermezzo: postcolonial modernity and the fiction of intrigue -- Police and postcolonial rationality in Amitav Ghosh's The circle of reason -- "Deep in blood": Roy, Rushdie, and the representation of state violence in India -- "The unhistorical dead": violence, history, and narrative in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's ghost -- Conclusion: "power smashes into private lives": cultural politics in the new Empire.

ISBN: 9780231138086 (cloth : alk. paper)Subjects--Topical Terms:

177190
Literature and society
--History--Great Britain--19th century.

LC Class. No.: PR861 / .S53 2008

Dewey Class. No.: 823/.809358

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