01793cam a2200313 a 4500 070220s2008 nyu b 001 0 eng 9780231138086 SDU PR861 S568 A 2008 Siddiqi, Yumna. 215047 Anxieties of Empire and the fiction of intrigue / Yumna Siddiqi. New York : Columbia University Press, 2008. 290 p. Colonial anxieties and the fiction of intrigue -- Imperial intrigue in an English country house -- Sherlock Holmes and "the cesspool of Empire": the return of the repressed -- The fiction of counterinsurgency -- Intermezzo: postcolonial modernity and the fiction of intrigue -- Police and postcolonial rationality in Amitav Ghosh's The circle of reason -- "Deep in blood": Roy, Rushdie, and the representation of state violence in India -- "The unhistorical dead": violence, history, and narrative in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's ghost -- Conclusion: "power smashes into private lives": cultural politics in the new Empire. HKBU library YT2025 M08 English fiction 19th century History and criticism. English fiction 20th century History and criticism. English fiction South Asian authors History and criticism. 215048 Intrigue in literature. 215049 Espionage in literature. 215050 Literature and society Great Britain History 19th century. 199046 Literature and society Great Britain History 20th century. 215051 Imperialism in literature. 124695 Postcolonialism in literature. 124696 Anxiety in literature. 215052 = C.1 SDU GBE lcc 110755 110755 0 0 lcc 0 PR0861 S568 A2008 0 CGB 279552 SDU SDU GEN3 2025-08-27 2 0 PR861 S568 A 2008 1000376214 2025-08-27 00:00:00 C.1 2025-08-27 GBE