The "discourse of difficulty": English writing and India, 1600-1720

dc.contributor.author Nayar, Pramod K.
dc.date.accessioned 2022-03-27T01:51:23Z
dc.date.available 2022-03-27T01:51:23Z
dc.date.issued 2003-12-01
dc.description.abstract This essay argues that early English travel writing on India tropes India as a difficult space as a preliminary to interpreting it. This "discourse of difficulty," which uses a range of features from the aesthetic of the sublime, first intensifies Indian dangers and subsequently demystifies it in an assertion of rhetorical control over vastness and difficulty. The article suggests that the tropes of later, eighteenth-century colonial writing on India are well in place within the discursive operations of the sublime aesthetic in numerous seventeenth- century travelogues. © 2003 Taylor & Francis Ltd.
dc.identifier.citation Prose Studies. v.26(3)
dc.identifier.issn 17439426
dc.identifier.uri 10.1080/0144035042000328897
dc.identifier.uri http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0144035042000328897
dc.identifier.uri https://dspace.uohyd.ac.in/handle/1/4177
dc.title The "discourse of difficulty": English writing and India, 1600-1720
dc.type Journal. Review
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