The Classics and Colonial India by Phiroze Vasunia
This extraordinary book provides a detailed account of the relationship between classical antiquity and the British colonial presence in India. It examines some of the great figures of the colonial period such as Gandhi, Nehru, Macaulay, Jowett, and William Jones, and covers a range of different disciplines as it sweeps from the eighteenth century to the end of the British Raj in the twentieth. Using a variety of materials, including archival documents and familiar texts, Vasunia shows how classical culture pervaded the thoughts and minds of the British colonizers. His book highlights the many Indian receptions of Greco-Roman antiquity and analyses how Indians turned to ancient Greece and Rome during the colonial period for a variety of purposes, including anti-colonialism, nationalism, and collaboration. Offering a unique cross-cultural study, this volume will be of interest to literary scholars and historians of the classical world, the British Empire, and South Asia.-
Laughing with Medusa
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Stand in the Trench, Achilles
- Sophocles' Antigone in Early Modern English Drama
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E. E. Cummings' Modernism and the Classics
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Greek Tragedy on Screen
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Modernist Women and the Greek Chorus
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The Living Death of Antiquity
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Latin Américan Antígonas: An Anthology of Seven Translated Plays
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Classics and Media Theory
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Fragmentary Modernism
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Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames
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Childhood and the Classics
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David Jones and Rome
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Roman Receptions of Sappho
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The Irish Classical Self
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Madly after the Muses
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Richard Aldington's Modernist Antiquity
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Beyond Greece and Rome
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Between Jerusalem and Athens
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The Other Virgil
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Hegel's Antiquity
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Women Classical Scholars
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Topologies of the Classical World in Children's Fiction
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Travel and Home in Homer's Odyssey and Contemporary Literature
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Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity
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Postdramatic Tragedies
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Virgil and his Translators
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Ovid's Presence in Contemporary Women's Writing
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Diversifying Greek Tragedy on the Contemporary US Stage
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Homer's Daughters
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Son of Classics and Comics
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Film and the Classical Epic Tradition
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Athens in Paris
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Remembering Parthenope
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Romans and Romantics
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Classics and Comics
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The Senecan Aesthetic
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Classical Traditions in Science Fiction
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Homer and the Politics of Authority in Renaissance France
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Crossroads in the Black Aegean
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Milton and the Metamorphosis of Ovid
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Lucretius and the Early Modern
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The Nation and its Ruins
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Victorian Women Writers and the Classics
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Sciences of Antiquity
This is a gold-mine of a book, that treats a fascinating subject with all the intelligent imagination, based on exhaustive research, that it so richly deserves* Professor Peter Green, Adjunct Professor at the University of Iowa *
This is a book which significantly deepens our understanding of how classics could exert an influence in a colonial context ... All in all, and most importantly, while this book answers many important questions, it also provides a wealth of evidence to support future research into the nature of the relationship between the classics and empire. It is of undoubted value to scholars specializing in the field of classical reception, classical studies more broadly, and wider audiences interested in the history of classical scholarship and modern intellectual history in a colonial context. * The Classical Journal *
This is a book which significantly deepens our understanding of how classics could exert an influence in a colonial context ... All in all, and most importantly, while this book answers many important questions, it also provides a wealth of evidence to support future research into the nature of the relationship between the classics and empire. It is of undoubted value to scholars specializing in the field of classical reception, classical studies more broadly, and wider audiences interested in the history of classical scholarship and modern intellectual history in a colonial context. * The Classical Journal *
Phiroze Vasunia is a Professor of Classics at the University of Reading.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199203239 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199203237 |
| Title | The Classics and Colonial India |
| Author | Phiroze Vasunia |
| Series | Classical Presences |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2013-05-16 |
| Number of pages | 414 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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