British Orientalisms, 1759-1835

How did Britons understand their relationship with the East in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? James Watt''s new study remaps the literary history of British Orientalisms between 1759, the ''year of victories'' in the Seven Years'' War, and 1835, when T. B. Macaulay published his polemical ''Minute on Indian Education''. It explores the impact of the war on Britons'' cultural h...