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Author Ahmed, Siraj Dean, author.
Title The stillbirth of capital : Enlightenment writing and colonial India / Siraj Ahmed.
Publication Info Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2012].


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Descript x, 291 pages ; 24 cm.
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Contents Introduction : the Enlightenment and colonial India -- Sovereignty and monopoly in Dryden's Amboyna -- Conversion and piracy in Defoe's Captain Singleton -- Sentiment and debt in Sterne's Bramine's Journal and Foote's Nabob -- Free trade and famine: the wealth of nations and Bentham's 'essay' -- Nation and addiction: Burke's and Sheridan's speeches in the Hastings impeachment -- Orientalism and the permanent fix of war : Voltaire contra Sir William Jones -- History, anachronism, violence : Morgan's Missionary and Scott's Guy Mannering.
ISBN 0804775222 (hbk.)
0804775230 (pbk.)
9780804775229 (hbk.)
9780804775236 (pbk.)
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Author Ahmed, Siraj Dean, author.
Subject English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
Colonies in literature.
Enlightenment.
India -- In literature.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Asia -- History.
India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947.
Descript x, 291 pages ; 24 cm.
Content text txt
Media unmediated n
Carrier volume nc
Contents Introduction : the Enlightenment and colonial India -- Sovereignty and monopoly in Dryden's Amboyna -- Conversion and piracy in Defoe's Captain Singleton -- Sentiment and debt in Sterne's Bramine's Journal and Foote's Nabob -- Free trade and famine: the wealth of nations and Bentham's 'essay' -- Nation and addiction: Burke's and Sheridan's speeches in the Hastings impeachment -- Orientalism and the permanent fix of war : Voltaire contra Sir William Jones -- History, anachronism, violence : Morgan's Missionary and Scott's Guy Mannering.
ISBN 0804775222 (hbk.)
0804775230 (pbk.)
9780804775229 (hbk.)
9780804775236 (pbk.)
Author Ahmed, Siraj Dean, author.
Subject English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
Colonies in literature.
Enlightenment.
India -- In literature.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Asia -- History.
India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947.
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 Wilberforce Institute  PR 448 I534 A2  DEPT DECISION  ASK AT DEPT

Subject English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
Colonies in literature.
Enlightenment.
India -- In literature.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Asia -- History.
India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947.
Descript x, 291 pages ; 24 cm.
Content text txt
Media unmediated n
Carrier volume nc
Contents Introduction : the Enlightenment and colonial India -- Sovereignty and monopoly in Dryden's Amboyna -- Conversion and piracy in Defoe's Captain Singleton -- Sentiment and debt in Sterne's Bramine's Journal and Foote's Nabob -- Free trade and famine: the wealth of nations and Bentham's 'essay' -- Nation and addiction: Burke's and Sheridan's speeches in the Hastings impeachment -- Orientalism and the permanent fix of war : Voltaire contra Sir William Jones -- History, anachronism, violence : Morgan's Missionary and Scott's Guy Mannering.
ISBN 0804775222 (hbk.)
0804775230 (pbk.)
9780804775229 (hbk.)
9780804775236 (pbk.)
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