Author: Simon Eliot File Type: epub From the early Sumerian clay tablet through to the emergence of the electronic text, this Companion provides a continuous and coherent account of the history of the book. ullMakes use of illustrative examples and case studies of well-known texts llWritten by a group of expert contributors llCovers topical debates, such as the nature of censorship and the future of the booklul**

Author: Antoinette Burton File Type: pdf Antoinette Burton focuses on the experiences of three Victorian travelers in Britain to illustrate how Englishness was made and remade in relation to imperialism. The accounts left by these three sojourners--all prominent, educated Indians--represent complex, critical ethnographies of native metropolitan society and offer revealing glimpses of what it was like to be a colonial subject in fin-de-sicle Britain. Burtons innovative interpretation of the travelers testimonies shatters the myth of Britains insularity from its own construction of empire and shows that it was instead a terrain open to continual contest and refiguration.Burtons three subjects felt the influence of imperial power keenly during even the most everyday encounters in Britain. Pandita Ramabai arrived in London in 1883 seeking a medical education and left in 1886, having resisted the Anglican Churchs attempts to make her an evangelical missionary. Cornelia Sorabji went to Oxford to study law and became the first Indian woman to be called to the Bar. Behramji Malabari sought help for his Indian reform projects in England, and subjected London to colonial scrutiny in the process. Their experiences form the basis of this wide-ranging, clearly written, and imaginative investigation of diasporic movement in the colonial metropolis. Antoinette Burton focuses on the experiences of three Victorian travelers in Britain to illustrate how Englishness was made and remade in relation to imperialism. The accounts left by these three sojourners--all prominent, educated Indians--represent complex, critical ethnographies of native metropolitan society and offer revealing glimpses of what it was like to be a colonial subject in fin-de-sicle Britain. Burtons innovative interpretation of the travelers testimonies shatters the myth of Britains insularity from its own construction of empire and shows that it was instead a terrain open to continual contest and refiguration.Burtons three subjects felt the influence of imperial power keenly during even the most everyday encounters in Britain. Pandita Ramabai arrived in London in 1883 seeking a medical education and left in 1886, having resisted the Anglican Churchs attempts to make her an evangelical missionary. Cornelia Sorabji went to Oxford to study law and became the first Indian woman to be called to the Bar. Behramji Malabari sought help for his Indian reform projects in England, and subjected London to colonial scrutiny in the process. Their experiences form the basis of this wide-ranging, clearly written, and imaginative investigation of diasporic movement in the colonial metropolis.