The Politics of Ballads and the Poetics of Nationalism: The 1857 Indian Uprising, Tennyson's Defence of Lucknow, and Chauhan's Jhansi ki Rani.
This essay presents an intertextual reading of Tennyson's imperial Defence of Lucknow (1879) in English and Chauhan's anticolonial Rani of Jhansi (1923) in Hindi. Both are balladic celebrations of the 1857 Uprising in India, a major landmark in the Indian subcontinent's history of colonization that...
| Publicado en: | Victorian Poetry Vol. 62; no. 4; pp. 432 - 465 |
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