Romanticism, Liberal Imperialism, and Technology in Early British India: "The All-Changing Power of Steam"

by Daniel E. White

Considering metropolitan and colonial cultural production as a "unitary field of analysis," this book shows how tensions in the 1830s between utilitarian and Romantic perspectives on steam power marked meaningful divisions within the pervasive liberal imperialism of the period and generated divergent speculative fantasies, set in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, about the future of Indian nationalism. Poetry and fiction in Britain and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303160704X
• ISBN13: 9783031607042
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 93 Pages