British Women Writers and the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1785-1835
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Baseless Illusion
British women authors in colonial Bengal
British Women Writers
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Chief Brahmin
colonial India studies
community
deism
enlightenment
Enlightenment Deism
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Female Sublime
gendered epistemology
gibbes
Hartly House
HHC
Hilarion's Sensibility
Hilarion’s Sensibility
Hindoo Rajah
Indian Sublime
interracial marriage discourse
Jones's Translations
Jones’s Translations
Late Enlightenment
Male Orientalists
marriage
Marriage Plot
Miss Ardent
OED's Entry
OED’s Entry
Orientalism critique
Paradoxical Binary
phebe
Phebe Gibbes
plot
Preliminary Dissertation
Romantic period literature
Starke's Play
Starke’s Play
translation
Vedic philosophy
Wilkins's Translation
wilkinss
Wilkins’s Translation
Women Writers
Young Brahmin
Young Men
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- ISBN 9781472430885
- Weight: 430g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Oct 2014
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In her study of newly recovered works by British women, Kathryn Freeman traces the literary relationship between women writers and the Asiatic Society of Bengal, otherwise known as the Orientalists. Distinct from their male counterparts of the Romantic period, who tended to mirror the Orientalist distortions of India, women writers like Phebe Gibbes, Elizabeth Hamilton, Sydney Owenson, Mariana Starke, Eliza Fay, Anna Jones, and Maria Jane Jewsbury interrogated these distortions from the foundation of gender. Freeman takes a three-pronged approach, arguing first that in spite of their marked differences, female authors shared a common resistance to the Orientalists’ intellectual genealogy that allowed them to represent Vedic non-dualism as an alternative subjectivity to the masculine model of European materialist philosophy. She also examines the relationship between gender and epistemology, showing that women’s texts not only shift authority to a feminized subjectivity, but also challenge the recurring Orientalist denigration of Hindu masculinity as effeminate. Finally, Freeman contrasts the shared concern about miscegenation between Orientalists and women writers, contending that the first group betrays anxiety about intermarriage between East Indian Company men and indigenous women while the varying portrayals of intermarriage by women show them poised to dissolve the racial and social boundaries. Her study invites us to rethink the Romantic paradigm of canonical writers as replicators of Orientalists’ cultural imperialism in favor of a more complicated stance that accommodates the differences between male and female authors with respect to India.
Kathryn S. Freeman is Professor of English at the University of Miami, USA. She is the author of Blake's Nostos: Fragmentation and Nondualism in The Four Zoas; A Guide to Blake’s Cosmology; Rethinking the Romantic Era: Androgyny and Subjectivity in the Writings of Mary Robinson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Mary Shelley; and Through the Fiction of Phebe Gibbes: Women, Alienation, and Prodigality in the Long Eighteenth Century.
