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Pramod K. Nayar argues that colonial representation relied on aesthetic devices to claim narrative control over Indian landscapes. Focusing on modes such as the marvellous, monstrous, sublime, picturesque, and luxuriant, the study traces a rhetorical shift from mercantile exploration writing to later “shikar” memoirs of extreme exotic. 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Aesthetics helped not only to describe the landscape, but also to discursively ‘prepare’ it for colonial projects and intervention. Aesthetics was thus a crucial anterior moment in the rhetoric of colonial India – it narrated, and it colonized.  \nLooking specifically at the aesthetic modes of the marvellous, the monstrous, the sublime, the picturesque and the luxuriant, Nayar marks the shift in the rhetoric – from the exploration narratives in the proto-colonial age of mercantile exploration to that of the ‘shikar’ memoirs of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century’s extreme exotic. English Writing and India provides an important new study of colonial aesthetics, even as it extends current scholarship on the modes of early British representations of new lands and cultures.  \nPramod K. Nayar teaches at the University of Hyderabad, India. His recent publications in literary and cultural studies include The Great Uprising: India, 1857 (2007), The Penguin 1857 Reader (2007), Reading Culture: Theory, Praxis, Politics (2006)  \nand Virtual Worlds: Culture and Politics in the Age of Cybertechnology (2004) .  \nPostcolonial Literatures  \nEdited in collaboration with the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, University of Kent at Canterbury, this series presents a wide range of research into postcolonial literatures by specialists in the field. Volumes will concentrate on writers and writing originating in previously (or presently) colonized areas, and will include material from non-anglophone as well as anglophone colonies and literatures. The series will also include collections of important essays from older journals, and re-issues of classic texts on postcolonial subjects. Routledge is pleased to invite proposals for new books in the series. Interested authors should contact Lyn Innes or Rod Edmond at the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, University of Kent at Canterbury, or Routledge’s Commissioning Editor for Literature.  \nThe series comprises three strands.  \nRoutledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures is a forum for innovative new research intended for a specialist readership. Published in hardback, titles include:  \n1. Magical Realism in West African Fiction: Seeing with a Third Eye by Brenda Cooper  \n2. The Postcolonial Jane Austen edited by You-Me Park and Rajeswari Sunder Rajan  \n3. Contemporary Caribbean Women’s Poetry: Making Style by Denise deCaires Narain  \n4. African Literature, Animism and Politics by Caroline Rooney  \n5. Caribbean-English Passages: Intertextuality in a Postcolonial Tradition by Tobias Döring  \n6. Islands in History and Representation edited by Rod Edmond and Vanessa Smith  \n7. Civility and Empire: Literature and Culture in British India, 1822–1922 by Anindyo Roy  \n8. Women Writing the West Indies, 1804–1939: ‘A Hot Place, Belonging To Us’ by Evelyn O’Callaghan  \n9. Postcolonial Pacific Writing: Representations of the body by Michelle Keown  \n10. Writing Woman, Writing Place: Contemporary Australian and South African Fiction by Sue Kossew  \n11. Literary Radicalism in India: Gender, Nation and the Transition to Independence by Priyamvada Gopal  \n12. Postcolonial Conrad: Paradoxes of Empire by Terry Collits  \n13. American Pacificism: Oceania in the U.S. Imagination by Paul Lyons  \n14. Decolonizing Culture in the Pacific: Reading History and Trauma in Contemporary Fiction by Susan Y. Najita  \n15. Writing Sri Lanka: Literature, Resistance and the Politics of Place by Minoli Salgado  \n16.","cbCaihCfa08nxDtE","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihCfa08nxDtE","pdf",1300968,225,"English","# Introduction\n## Colonial discourse and narrative control\n## Aesthetics as a prelude to colonial projects\n## Aesthetic modes: marvellous, monstrous, sublime, picturesque, luxuriant\n## Rhetorical shift: exploration narratives to shikar memoirs\n## Postcolonial Literatures series overview","[{\"question\":\"What is the central argument of the book?\",\"answer\":\"The book argues that British colonial discourse about India used aesthetic devices to establish narrative control over Indian landscapes, and that aesthetics prepared India for colonial projects and intervention.\"},{\"question\":\"Which aesthetic modes are studied in detail?\",\"answer\":\"It examines the aesthetic modes of the marvellous, the monstrous, the sublime, the picturesque, and the luxuriant, showing how they shape representation.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the book describe the change in rhetoric over time?\",\"answer\":\"It tracks a shift from proto-colonial exploration narratives in the mercantile age to the “shikar” memoirs of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries characterized as extreme exotic.\"}]","English Writing and India - Colonizing Aesthetics - 2008 | PDF",567]