Sensation, Sati, and Retribution in Mary E. Leslie's Sonnets on the Indian Mutiny.
Mary E. Leslie's thirty-six sonnets on the Indian uprising of 1857, composed in Calcutta during that year, are the most complex English-language poems about the rebellion and the most conflicted. In Leslie's poems, as in others by Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, and Whittier, tropes of rape and rescue...
| Published in: | Victorian Poetry Vol. 62; no. 1/2; pp. 26 - 50 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Spring/Summer2024
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