The Residue of Modernity: Technology, Anachronism and Bric-à-Brac in Anglo-Indian Writing, 1870-1914

Alexander Bubb

The Residue of Modernity: Technology, Anachronism and Bric-à-Brac in Anglo-Indian Writing, 1870-1914

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This chapter discusses the metaphorical use of technology and technological obsolescence in colonial Indian fiction from the late nineteenth century. Four authors are examined - Jules Verne, Rudyard Kipling, Flora Annie Steel, and Edmund Candler - with an additional brief discussion of the gramophone and its role in Tagore's Ghare Baire (The Home and the World).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Late Victorian into Modern, 1880-1920
Editors	Laura Marcus, Michèle Mendelssohn, Kirsten Shepherd-Barr
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Publication status	Published - 13 Oct 2016

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Name	Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature
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Bubb, A. (2016). The Residue of Modernity: Technology, Anachronism and Bric-à-Brac in Anglo-Indian Writing, 1870-1914. In L. Marcus, M. Mendelssohn, & K. Shepherd-Barr (Eds.), Late Victorian into Modern, 1880-1920 (Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature). Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/late-victorian-into-modern-9780198704393?cc=gb&lang=en&

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Bubb, A 2016, The Residue of Modernity: Technology, Anachronism and Bric-à-Brac in Anglo-Indian Writing, 1870-1914. in L Marcus, M Mendelssohn & K Shepherd-Barr (eds), Late Victorian into Modern, 1880-1920. Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature, Oxford University Press. <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/late-victorian-into-modern-9780198704393?cc=gb&lang=en&>

The Residue of Modernity: Technology, Anachronism and Bric-à-Brac in Anglo-Indian Writing, 1870-1914. / Bubb, Alexander.
Late Victorian into Modern, 1880-1920. ed. / Laura Marcus; Michèle Mendelssohn; Kirsten Shepherd-Barr. Oxford University Press, 2016. (Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature).

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