India was the object of intense sympathetic concern during the Romantic period. But what was the true nature of imaginative engagement with British India? This study explores how a range of authors, from Edmund Burke and Sir William Jones to Robert Southey and Thomas Moore, sought to come to terms with India's strangeness and distance from Britain.

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ANDREW RUDD Teaches English literature at the Open University, UK. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge.

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List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Edmund Burke and the Trial of Warren Hastings 'No less pious than sublime': the Sympathetic Vision of Sir William Jones Sympathy in a Hot Climate: British and Indian Subjects at the turn of the century Gothic Sympathy and Missionary Writing 'Oriental' versus 'Orientalist' Poetry: the Debate in Romantic Period Literary Criticism Epilogue: Orientalism under Pressure Bibliography Index