| FB-53335-07 | Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars | Mary Ellis Gibson | Empire and English Language Literary Culture in Bengal, 1780-1912 | 2/1/2008 - 10/31/2008 | $40,000.00 | Mary | Ellis | Gibson | | | | University of North Carolina, Greensboro | Greensboro | NC | 27412-5068 | USA | 2006 | Literature, General | Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars | Research Programs | 40000 | 0 | 40000 | 0 |
This study examines English language poetry in India from its beginnings to 1912. It surveys a crucial portion of the imperial archive and proposes a theoretical frame for understanding imperial literary relations. Critiquing nationalist historiography, I examine English language writing in three registers: material histories of uneven development; transperipheral histories of cultural institutions; and psychic histories accessible in literary conventions. Five chapters treat early periodicals; the literary friendship of Derozio and the British poet Emma Roberts; the rise of the literary annual in Britain and Bengal; the creation of an English language canon in schools and libraries; and the role of Indian poets in fin de siecle publishing. |