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Pericles, Becky Becker
Empire And Romance: John Masters's Nightrunners Of Bengal, Fikret Mehmet Arargüc
Empire And Romance: John Masters's Nightrunners Of Bengal, Fikret Mehmet Arargüc
Fikret Mehmet Arargüc
This article discusses the importance of romance in the fictional representations of the Indian Uprising in 1857 and the Raj in general. The uprising deeply impacted the psyche of both British and Indian writers; however, until the end of the Raj’s rule, only British and Anglo-Indian romances comprised the (official) literary output of the event. Bearing this in mind and considering that the literary and ideological format of romance with its emphasis on wish-fulfilment had stimulated a widespread imperial utilization, and that these romances later turned into highly influential historical documents, Arargüç contends that the romance became the authoritative narrative …
Literature And Popular Culture In Early Modern England, Phebe Jensen
Literature And Popular Culture In Early Modern England, Phebe Jensen
English Faculty Publications
"All students of popular culture," Tim Harris wrote in 1995, "would acknowledge the intellectual debt they owe to Peter Burke's seminal study Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe." (1) Now in a third edition with substantial revisions and a new preface, the book defines "popular culture" as the culture of "ordinary people," which included "folksongs and folktales; devotional images and decorated marriage chests; mystery plays and farces; broadsides and chapbooks; and, above all, festivals...." Burke's central claim was that in 1500, the elite were culturally "amphibious," participating in this popular "little tradition" but also in the "great tradition" of the …
Sway Of The Ottoman Empire On English Identity In The Long Eighteenth Century, Emily Kugler
Sway Of The Ottoman Empire On English Identity In The Long Eighteenth Century, Emily Kugler
Department of English Faculty Publications
Within popular culture of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, the intermingling of Islamic and English Protestant identity was a recurring topic of debate and anxiety in the English cultural imagination. Examining the shifting representations from Early Modern Era to nineteenth-century concepts of race, nation and empire, Sway presents the eighteenth century as a turning point in public perceptions, the moments when English subjects began to believe British imperial power was a reality rather than an aspiration.