TY  - BOOK
AU  - Siddiqi,Yumna
TI  - Anxieties of Empire and the fiction of intrigue
SN  - 9780231138086
AV  - PR861 S568 A 2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - English fiction
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 20th century
KW  - South Asian authors
KW  - Intrigue in literature
KW  - Espionage in literature
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Imperialism in literature
KW  - Postcolonialism in literature
KW  - Anxiety in literature
N1  - 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
ER  -