Civility and Empire
Literature and Culture in British India, 1821-1921| By: | Anindyo Roy |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9780415304351 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781134408344 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2005 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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This book addresses the idea of 'civility' as a manifestation of the fluidity and ambivalence of imperial power as reflected in British colonial literature and culture. Discussions of Anglo-Indian romances of 1880-1900, E.M. Forster's The Life to Come and Leonard Woolf's writings show how the appeal to civility had a significant effect on the constitution of colonial subject-hood and reveals 'civility' as an ideal trope for the ambivalence of imperial power itself.