Eastern Figures ISBN: 9789888052233 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Hong Kong University Press, HKU Digital rights:Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: Imperialism in literature.; English literature; English 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.