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'Orientalist Jones': Sir William Jones, Poet, Lawyer, and Linguist, 1746-1794

'Orientalist Jones': Sir William Jones, Poet, Lawyer, and Linguist, 1746-1794 - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Michael J. FranklinPublish date:2011-10-25Pages:408
Language:EnglishPublisher:OUP OxfordISBN-13:9780199532001ISBN-10:199532001UPC:9780199532001Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Europe, Asia, HistoricalBook Topic:Great Britain, SouthSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.94 inchesWeight:1.6513Product ID:SCQ65NRFRC
A critical biography of Sir William Jones (1746-94), the foremost Orientalist of his generation and one of the greatest intellectual navigators of all time, whose Sanskrit researches did more than any other writer to destroy Eurocentric prejudice, reshaping Western perceptions of India and the Orient.
Language:EnglishPublisher:OUP OxfordISBN-13:9780199532001ISBN-10:199532001UPC:9780199532001Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Europe, Asia, HistoricalBook Topic:Great Britain, SouthSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.94 inchesWeight:1.6513Product ID:SCQ65NRFRC
Michael J. Franklin is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Swansea University. His main current area of interest is the study of colonial representations of India and their various interfaces with Romanticism, and he has published widely on this subject and on the work of Sir William Jones, including the critical biography Sir William Jones (1995), and (as editor)Sir William Jones: Selected Poetical and Prose Works (1995), Representing India: Indian Culture and Imperial Control (2000), and The European Discovery of India: Key Indological Sources of Romanticism (2001). His most recent books are an edited collection of essays, Romantic Representations of British India (2006), and a scholarly edition of Phebe Gibbes, Hartly House, Calcutta (2007), also published by Oxford University Press.
Publisher: OUP Oxford

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