Gibson, Mary Ellis (Author)
Victorian Literature and Culture
Volume: 42, no. 3
Issue: 3
Pages: 325-333
Edition Details: Lead Article in a Series: “ English in India, India in England”
Language: English
As we planned this special issue of Victorian Literature and Culture, the editors of VLC and I engaged in a lively exchange -- what title could capture such a sprawling arena of concern? Victorian India seemed short and sweet. And yet one must ask, which Victorian India? Whose Victorian India? Do we mean India and Indians in the British Isles? British traders, soldiers, and administrators in Britain or Indian subjects across the subcontinent? What about an imagined Britain in India? An imagined India in Britain? The essays collected here represent varied answers to these questions. They also chart the recent parameters of what Albert Pionke calls in his essay “the epistemological problem of British India.” Before returning succinctly to the baker's dozen articles assembled here -- for readers will want to encounter them without unnecessary commentary -- I turn to the conjoined issues animating both these essays and much recent work on British imperialism: issues of historiography and epistemology
...MoreDescription Contents:
Article Banerjee, Sandeep (2014) “Not Altogether Unpicturesque”: Samuel Bourne and the Landscaping of the Victorian Himalaya. Victorian Literature and Culture (pp. 351-368).
Article Crane, Ralph; Fletcher, Lisa (2014) Picturing the Indian Tiger: Imperial Iconography in the Nineteenth Century. Victorian Literature and Culture (pp. 369-386).
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