Colonial Law In India And The Victorian Imagination

Author : Leila Neti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108950744
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination written by Leila Neti and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situated at the intersection of law and literature, nineteenth-century studies and post-colonialism, Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination draws on original archival research to shed new light on Victorian literature. Each chapter explores the relationship between the shared cultural logic of law and literature, and considers how this inflected colonial sociality. Leila Neti approaches the legal archive in a distinctly literary fashion, attending to nuances of voice, character, diction and narrative, while also tracing elements of fact and procedure, reading the case summaries as literary texts to reveal the common turns of imagination that motivated both fictional and legal narratives. What emerges is an innovative political analytic for understanding the entanglements between judicial and cultural norms in Britain and the colony, bridging the critical gap in how law and literature interact within the colonial arena.

Author : Leila Neti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108837484
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination written by Leila Neti and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the shared cultural genealogy of popular Victorian novels and judicial opinions of the Privy Council.

Author : Preeti Nijhar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317316002
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law and Imperialism written by Preeti Nijhar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laws that were imposed by colonizers were as much an attempt to confirm their own identity as to control the more dangerous elements of a potentially unruly populace. This title uses material from both British Parliamentary Papers and colonial archive material to provide evidence of legal change and response.

Author : Tanya Agathocleous
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501753908
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disaffected written by Tanya Agathocleous and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disaffected examines the effects of antisedition law on the overlapping public spheres of India and Britain under empire. After 1857, the British government began censoring the press in India, culminating in 1870 with the passage of Section 124a, a law that used the term "disaffection" to target the emotional tenor of writing deemed threatening to imperial rule. As a result, Tanya Agathocleous shows, Indian journalists adopted modes of writing that appeared to mimic properly British styles of prose even as they wrote against empire. Agathocleous argues that Section 124a, which is still used to quell political dissent in present-day India, both irrevocably shaped conversations and critiques in the colonial public sphere and continues to influence anticolonialism and postcolonial relationships between the state and the public. Disaffected draws out the coercive and emotional subtexts of law, literature, and cultural relationships, demonstrating how the criminalization of political alienation and dissent has shaped literary form and the political imagination.

Author : Elizabeth Kolsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781107404137
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colonial Justice in British India written by Elizabeth Kolsky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonial Justice in British India describes and examines the lesser-known history of white violence in colonial India. By foregrounding crimes committed by a mostly forgotten cast of European characters - planters, paupers, soldiers and sailors - Elizabeth Kolsky argues that violence was not an exceptional but an ordinary part of British rule in the subcontinent. Despite the pledge of equality, colonial legislation and the practices of white judges, juries and police placed most Europeans above the law, literally allowing them to get away with murder. The failure to control these unruly whites revealed how the weight of race and the imperatives of command imbalanced the scales of colonial justice. In a powerful account of this period, Kolsky reveals a new perspective on the British Empire in India, highlighting the disquieting violence that invariably accompanied imperial forms of power.

Author : Matthew Sussman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108967248
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stylistic Virtue and Victorian Fiction written by Matthew Sussman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative approach to literary stylistic analysis that targets students and scholars of nineteenth-century literature and culture through provocative interpretations of style in Victorian novels and succinct revaluations of major figures in rhetoric, criticism, and philosophy.

Author : Elizabeth Helsinger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009200178
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversing in Verse written by Elizabeth Helsinger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conversing in Verse considers poems of conversation from the late eighteenth into the twentieth centuries – the very period when a more restrictive conception of poetry as the lyric product of the poet's solitary self-communing became entrenched. With fresh insight, Elizabeth Helsinger addresses a range of questions at the core of conversational poetry: When and why do poets turn to conversation to explore poetry's potential? How do conversation's forms and intentions shape the figures, rhythms, and prosody of poems to alter the reader's experience? What are the ethical and political stakes of conversing in verse? Coleridge, Clare, Landor, Tennyson, Robert Browning, Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Swinburne, Michael Field, and Hardy each composed poems that open difficult or impossible conversations with phenomena outside themselves. Helsinger unearths an unfamiliar lyric history that produced some of the most interesting formal experiments of the nineteenth century, including its best known, the dramatic monologue.

Author : Dennis Denisoff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108998348
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decadent Ecology in British Literature and Art, 1860–1910 written by Dennis Denisoff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decadent Ecology illuminates the networks of nature, paganism, and desire in 19th- and early 20th-century decadent literature and art. Combining the environmental humanities with aesthetic, queer and literary theory, this study reveals the interplay of art, eco-paganism and science during the formation of modern ecological and evolutionary thought.

Author : Francesca Mackenney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009084089
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Birdsong, Speech and Poetry written by Francesca Mackenney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the long nineteenth century, scientists discovered striking similarities between how birds learn to sing and how children learn to speak. Tracing the 'science of birdsong' as it developed from the 'ingenious' experiments of Daines Barrington to the evolutionary arguments of Charles Darwin, Francesca Mackenney reveals a legacy of thought which informs, and consequently affords fresh insights into, a canonical group of poems about birdsong in the Romantic and Victorian periods. With a particular focus on the writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the Wordsworth siblings, John Clare and Thomas Hardy, her book explores how poets responded to an analogy which challenged definitions of language and therefore of what it means to be human. Drawing together responses to birdsong in science, music and poetry, her distinctive interdisciplinary approach challenges many of the long-standing cultural assumptions which have shaped (and continue to shape) how we respond to other creatures in the Anthropocene.

Author : Matthew Rowlinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009409956
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biopolitics and Animal Species in Nineteenth Century Literature and Science written by Matthew Rowlinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-02 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Centring on Darwin and on literature throughout the nineteenth century, this book documents a general crisis in the species concept.