Cross-cultural refractions: India in English Romantic poetry

"Creative writers of the English Romantic period often felt the allure of India, for India ""stirred"" their Imagination. This dissertation explores the question Why? through analyzing historical phenomena like England's colonization of India and the Oriental Renaissance, through considering the literary echoes of India in English literature before the eighteenth century, and through reflecting on the literary atmosphere in England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries."

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Comparative and World Literature

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Mazumder, Aparajita

Contributors dc:contributor

• Palencia-Roth, Michael

• Literature, Comparative
• Literature, Asian
• Literature, English

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1990 Mazumder, Aparajita

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9026264
(UMI)AAI9026264

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/22676