Transformations of Byron in the literature of British India

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Ni Fhlathuin, Maire (2014) Transformations of Byron in the literature of British India. Victorian Literature and Culture, 42 (3). pp. 573-593. ISSN 1060-1503

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Abstract

This essay examines the reception of Byron’s work, and some responses to it, among the poets of the British community in India during the first half of the nineteenth century.

The first section sketches some of the routes by which Byron’s work and accounts of his life were circulated and read in India and demonstrates the impact of his work on the poets of British India. These poets co-opted Byronic texts into their own writings in the form of epigraphs and other citations and allusions, composed responses to Byron and his work, and imitated the tropes, formats and themes of Byron’s poetry. The second section of the essay looks in more detail at selected examples of the many adaptations and imitations of Byron’s work that proliferated during this period. In these poems, Byronic models are propriated by writers whose chosen professions or relationships have the effect of aligning them with the colonial project of the East India Company. They re-imagined the encounter with the romanticized Orient that characterizes many of Byron’s works in response to the specific political and cultural contexts of British India in the nineteenth century.

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/999409
Additional Information: This article has been accepted for publication and will appear in a revised form, subsequent to editorial input by Cambridge University Press, in 'Victorian Literature and Culture'. Copyright Cambridge University Press.
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Arts > School of English
Identification Number: 10.1017/S1060150314000151
Depositing User: ní Fhlathúin, Dr Máire
Date Deposited: 19 Sep 2013 08:49
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 20:17
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/2161

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