Sympathy and India in British Literature, 1770–1830

226 Pages·2011·1.772 MB·English

by  Andrew Rudd (auth.)

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Sympathy and India
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1770–1830
Andrew Rudd
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Rudd, Andrew, 1979–
Sympathy and India in British literature, 1770–1830 / Andrew Rudd.
p. cm.
Includes index.
1. English literature—18th century—History and criticism. 2. English
literature—19th century—History and criticism. 3. India—In literature.
4. Orientalism in literature. I. Title.
PR448.1534R83 2011
820.935854—dc22 2011004367
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20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11
For my parents
Contents
List of Figures viii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1
1 Edmund Burke and the Trial of Warren Hastings 26
2 ‘No Less Pious than Sublime’: The Sympathetic
Vision of Sir William Jones 56
3 Sympathy in a Hot Climate: British and Indian
Subjects at the Turn of the Century 87
4 Gothic Sympathy and Missionary Writing 117
5 Reorientating the Orient: Sympathy, the
East and Romantic Period Literary Criticism 140
Epilogue: Orientalism under Pressure 165
Notes 169
Sources 195
Index 213
vii
List of Figures
1.1 J ames Sayers, Galante Show ‘Redeunt Spectacula Mane’ (1788)
Courtesy of the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University 44
1.2 J ames Gillray, Camera-Obscura (1788)
Courtesy of the British Museum 45
1.3 J ames Sayers, Last Scene of the Managers Farce (1795)
Courtesy of the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University 53
2.1 A rthur William Devis, Sir William Jones (1793)
Courtesy of the British Library 71
3.1 T homas Daniell, View of Calcutta (1786–8)
Courtesy of the British Library 94
viii
Acknowledgements
The book began as a doctoral thesis at the University of Cambridge.
My first debt is to my supervisor, Nigel Leask, whose work on
Romanticism and the East was the inspiration for my own project.
Sincere thanks are due to Trinity College, Cambridge, for providing
an exemplary research environment and support, including funding
for a research visit to India through the Cambridge Commonwealth
Trust and Eddington Fund. The project could not have been com-
pleted without financial support from the AHRB (now the AHRC)
who funded my postgraduate studies in their entirety. I would also
like to thank Maggie K. Powell and the staff of the Lewis Walpole
Library, Yale University, for a fruitful pre-doctoral fellowship in
2004. To my hosts in India, Sriram Kilambi and Cherry Verghese,
I am under enormous obligation for their unfailingly generous hos-
pitality. The expertise of librarians at the British Library, Cambridge
University Library’s Rare Books department, the Bodleian Library
(Rhodes House) and the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts
Library has been instrumental to my research.
Many friends and colleagues have given advice, guidance and
moral support along the way. Among them are Nigel Aston, Piers
Baker-Bates, C.A. Bayly, Timothy Brittain-Catlin, Peter Cochran,
Joanna de Groot, Georgina Evans, Michael J. Franklin, Katie Halsey,
Howard Erskine-Hill, Mary Jacobus, Sarah Johnson, Louise Joy,
Howard Leithead, P.J. Marshall, Jenny McAuley, Philip O’Connell,
Jane Partner, Adrian Poole, Stephen Parkes, Lynda Pratt, Sophie
Read, Rosane Rocher, Andrew Sanders, Alison Shell, Jane Slinn, A.J.
Stockwell, Kate Teltscher, Shafquat Towheed, Andy Tucker and Angus
Vine.
Profound thanks are due to Jonathan Sanders, Alison Shell and
Arnold Hunt for reading the manuscript in the final stages. Any
remaining errors are, of course, my own. At Palgrave Macmillan
I wish to thank Paula Kennedy for her help in bringing this book to
fruition.
Chapter 4 was previously published in a chapter of New Readings
in the Literature of British India (Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag, 2007), ISBN
978 3 89821 673 9, ed. Shafquat Towheed, and is republished with
the kind permission of ibidem-Verlag. Chapter 5 was previously
ix
x Acknowledgements
published in Romanticism 13.1 (2007) and reappears courtesy of
Edinburgh University Press (the original can be consulted at http://www.
eupjournals.com/journal/com).
Finally, thanks to my parents and my sister Catherine. I owe more
than words can express to Paul Burditt for his love and encouragement.