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Sympathy and India in British Literature, 1770–1830

Part of the Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230306004

ISBN: 978-1-349-31342-6

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Oct 29, 2015

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Introduction

Rudd, Andrew

Pages: 1 –25

[It may at first sight seem perverse to write of sympathy and India in a study of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British literature. This, after all, was a time when the East India Company, following the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam Il’s bestowal of diwani in 1765, was transformed from...
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Edmund Burke and the Trial of Warren Hastings

Rudd, Andrew

Pages: 26 –55

[The impeachment and trial of Warren Hastings, which began in 1787 and concluded with the acquittal of the former Governor-General in 1795, brought unprecedented attention to Indian affairs in Britain.1 It also illustrated — in terms that, for Burke, were nothing less than tragic — the aesthetic...
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‘No Less Pious than Sublime’: The Sympathetic Vision of Sir William Jones

Rudd, Andrew

Pages: 56 –86

[Only a year before the collapse of Burke’s impeachment campaign, on 22 May 1794, Sir John Shore (later Lord Teignmouth) rose before the Asiatic Society in Calcutta to lament the death of its founding president, Sir William Jones. As an Orientalist scholar and judge who believed that India should...
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Sympathy in a Hot Climate: British and Indian Subjects at the Turn of the Century

Rudd, Andrew

Pages: 87 –116

[Jones’s fellow European writers in Bengal at the end of the eighteenth century were engaged in nothing less than the construction of a new notion of sensibility, one adapted for the rigours and cultural complexities of colonial conditions. This new culture stemmed in large part from the outcome...
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Gothic Sympathy and Missionary Writing

Rudd, Andrew

Pages: 117 –139

[Whilst not easily categorised as an ‘evangelical’ herself (she was in fact Episcopalian), Hamilton conveys overtones of Christianity that align Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah chronologically, if not denominationally, with the Evangelical Revival that emerged in Britain in the mid...
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Reorientating the Orient: Sympathy, the East and Romantic Period Literary Criticism

Rudd, Andrew

Pages: 140 –164

[The growth of evangelical distaste for Hindu India, with its accompanying tendency to employ the gothic mode when writing of the country, appeared to cast doubt on Orientalism as a viable literary form. The transition formed an obvious parallel to the switch from ‘Orientalism’ to ‘Anglicism’...
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Epilogue: Orientalism under Pressure

Rudd, Andrew

Pages: 165 –168

[The book comes full circle to find that sympathetic engagement with India became possible only through the medium of heavily ‘Westernised’ forms of representation, either through the ‘costume poetry’ of Jones, later reworked by Moore, or through the depiction of Indian suffering in uniquely...

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