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Confessions of a Thug
Engelsk
Bogcover for Confessions of a Thug af Philip Meadows Taylor, 9780198854647
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
608
ISBN-13:
9780198854647
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0198854641
Udg. Dato:
11 jul 2024
Størrelse i cm:
19,9 x 13,4 x 3,1
Oplagsdato:
11 jul 2024
Forfatter(e):
Paperback 2024
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''You have given a faithful portrait of a Thug''s life, his ceremonies, and his acts''Often overshadowed by Kipling''s Kim or Forster''s A Passage to India, Philip Meadows Taylor''s forgotten classic, Confessions of a Thug (1839), is nevertheless the most influential novel of early nineteenth-century British India. This was the first dramatic account to expose a European readership to the fantastic world of the murderous Thugs, or highway robbers, who strangled their victims and who have ever since been a stable of Western popular culture. Writing in the voice of a captured Thug, Taylor presents an Orientalist fantasy that is part picaresque adventure and part colonial exposé. Confessions of a Thug offers a unique glimpse of the colonial world in the making, revealing how the British imagined themselves to be omniscient and in complete control of their Indian subjects. This unique critical edition makes available a fascinating and significant work of Empire writing, in addition to excerpts from the original colonial texts that inspired Taylor''s narrative.
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
608
ISBN-13:
9780198854647
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0198854641
Udg. Dato:
11 jul 2024
Størrelse i cm:
19,9 x 13,4 x 3,1
Oplagsdato:
11 jul 2024
Forfatter(e):
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