TY - BOOK ID - 77941561 TI - Eastern figures : Orient and empire in British writing PY - 2008 SN - 9882206891 1282708856 9786612708855 9888052233 9789888052233 9622099343 9789622099340 9622099351 9789622099357 9789622099340 9789622099357 PB - Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Imperialism in literature. KW - English literature KW - History and criticism. KW - Orient KW - In literature. KW - History and criticism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77941561 AB - 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. ER -