Reading the Global: Troubling Perspectives on Britain's Empire in Asia

Sanjay Krishnan

June, 2007
Cloth, 256 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14070-6
$50.00 / £34.50

Acknowledgments

Introduction. How to Read the Global

1. Adam Smith and the Claims of Subsistence

2. Opium Confessions: Narcotic, by Commodity

3. Native Agent: Abdullah Munshi’s Global Perspective

4. Animality and the Global Subject in Conrad’s Lord Jim

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

• Literary Criticism and Theory
• South Asian Studies

About the Author

Sanjay Krishnan is assistant professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.

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