Eastern Figures: Orient and Empire in British Writing ISBN: 9789888052233 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Hong Kong University Press Digital rights:Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Language & Literature;
Eastern Figures is a literary history with a difference. It examines British writing about the East -- centred on India but radiating as far as Egypt and the Pacific -- in the colonial and postcolonial period.