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India in Early Modern English Travel Writings
Rita Banerjee
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Protestantism, Enlightenment, and Toleration
出版BRILL, 2021-07-15
主題History / Europe / GeneralHistory / Europe / RenaissanceTravel / Essays & TraveloguesSocial Science / Popular CultureSocial Science / Sociology / GeneralPolitical Science / Political Ideologies / GeneralPolitical Science / Colonialism & Post-ColonialismSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
ISBN90044482689789004448261
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=qTlIEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Comparing the variant ideologies of the representations of India in seventeenth-century European travelogues, India in Early Modern English Travel Narratives concerns a relatively neglected area of study and often overlooked writers. Relating the narratives to contemporary ideas and beliefs, Rita Banerjee argues that travel writers, many of them avid Protestants, seek to negativize India by constructing her in opposition to Europe, the supposed norm, by deliberately erasing affinities and indulging in the politics of disavowal. However, some travelogues show a neutral stance by dispassionate ethnographic reporting, indicating a growing empirical trend. Yet others, influenced by the Enlightenment ideas of diversity, demonstrate tolerance of alien practices and, occasionally, acceptance of the superior rationality of the other's customs.