Indian Angles: English Verse in Colonial India from Jones to Tagore

Contents

vii Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi A Note on Names xv Introduction 1 Part i Languages,Tropes, and Landscape in the Beginnings of English Language Poetry One Contact Poetics in Eighteenth-Century Calcutta Sir William Jones, Sir John Horsford, and Anna Maria 17 Two Bards and Sybils Landscape, Gender, and the Culture of Dispute in the Poems of H. L.V . Derozio and Emma Roberts 63 Part ii The Institutions of Colonial Mimesis, 1830–57 Three Books, Reading, and the Profession of Letters David Lester Richardson and the Construction of a British Canon in India 101 Four Sighing, or Not, for Albion Kasiprasad Ghosh, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, and Mary Carshore 137 Part iii Nationalisms, Religion, and Aestheticism in the Late Nineteenth Century Five From Christian Piety to Cosmopolitan Nationalisms The Dutt Family Album and the Poems of Mary E. Leslie andToru Dutt 181 Six Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Aestheticism in Fin-de-Siècle London Manmohan Ghose, Sarojini Naidu, and RabindranathTagore 227 Epilogue 268 Notes 281 Bibliography 309 Index 325 ...