Essay Collection: New Readings in the Literature of British India c.1780-1947 "New Readings" provocatively invites its contributors to newly interrogate and contest established readings of canonical texts, as well as offer new readings of critically neglected works. Contributors are encouraged to interpret the term "literature" as broadly as they wish, including within its permeable boundaries both fiction and non-fiction, verse and prose, essay and memoir, drama and travel writing. As such, each essay in the collection should offer a close and stimulating new reading of a specific literary work. Contributors are free to adopt whatever literary critical perspective they feel will be most productive in offering a new reading of their chosen work, but they must offer a sustained close reading of their chosen text. This volume will aim to demonstrate the rich, ?conflicting and often coextensive diversity of interpretation opened up by the concept of "new readings" of, and in, the literature of British India from a variety of critical and heuristic positions. |