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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. In the tradition of Montesquieu's Persian Letters and Goldsmith's Citizen of the World, Hamilton gives us the epistolary British adventures of Zaarmilla, raja of Rohilkand, as related to his friend Maandaara (these names have a total of six macrons between them, which I have omitted). Hamilton's politics were the wrong ones, which is forgivable on its own,but it makes it all the more jarring when Zaarmilla moves from Eastern naif to authorial mouthpiece, laying on the sarcasm with a trowel. Hamilton knows full well that her screeds against late eighteenth-century species like sentimentalists and defenders of the commons and skeptorationalists in the model of David Hume take on a different valence coming out of the mouth of the unimplicated, decent foreigner of breeding, and she milks it. Certainly, though, this novel is interesting from the feminist POV, and has a lot still to say to people who don't know where they stand on the "tolerance of others' intolerance" East/West questions of our own historical moment. And several of the character sketches are cute, and you get a lot of insight into the William Jonesian construction of India and Sanskrit as the Greco-Rome and Classical language, respectively, of the East--although that then gets deployed problematically in the service of a discourse justifying British imperial dominance of India as "liberation" from Mughal Mohammedanism. And so on. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
In Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah, Elizabeth Hamilton engages directly with the major issues of her day, from colonialism and the "New Philosophy" to the present state of literature and female education. Satirizing British society and incorporating material from a wide range of the orientalists' new translations of Indian writing, Hamilton's book is a key document in the debates which raged in England over the British role in India. It remains one of the most interesting political novels of the 18th century. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)823.6Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Later 18th century 1745-1800LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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