04363nam a22004695i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020003700100024003500137050001600172072001700188072002300205072001600228100008500244245016300329250001800492264007900510300006100589336002600650337002600676338003600702347002400738505037200762520230301134650003803437650002903475650002403504650003503528650003103563650004003594710003403634773002603668776003603694776003603730776003603766856004603802912001403848912001403862999001703876978-3-031-60705-9DE-He21320251030112628.0cr nn 008mamaa240714s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830316070599978-3-031-60705-97 a10.1007/978-3-031-60705-92doi 4aPN760.5-769 7aDSBF2bicssc 7aLIT0240402bisacsh 7aDSBF2thema1 aWhite, Daniel E.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut98057310aRomanticism, Liberal Imperialism, and Technology in Early British Indiah[electronic resource] :b“The all-changing power of steam” /cby Daniel E. White.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXI, 91 p. 8 illus., 2 illus. in color.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 aChapter 1: Introduction: Motions and Means -- Chapter 2: A Soul Imparted to Brute Matter; or, the Secret Ministry of Steam -- Chapter 3: Diffusions, Relocations, and the Permeative Process of Coalescence -- Chapter 4: Henry Hurry Goodeve and Dominion Over the Wants of the Universe -- Chapter 5: Henry Meredith Parker and the Miserable Hour of a World’s Desolation.  a“Deftly combining the history of technology with literary analysis, White’s new book fascinatingly reveals the centrality of the steam engine to the British imperial imagination. A steam-powered tour de force of colonial literary history.” — Kate Teltscher, University of Roehampton, UK “White’s brilliant book explores futurist fictions published in the Bengal Annual and Romantic poetry side by side to dissolve the borders between metropolitan and colonial cultural production. His enviable range of references energises a discussion that encompasses activities, friendships, and writings that are fun to read about even today.” —Rosinka Chaudhuri, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India “In this well-written, well-researched, and fascinating account, White offers steam as a way to rethink parallel literary and scientific histories that have had significant consequences for colonialism and liberal thought. With characteristically revealing detail, White gives readers a new vision of empire as a place for techno-futurism and its cautious appraisal, contributing important lessons for our own age of buoyant invention. An unusual book, in the best way.” —James Mulholland, North Carolina State University, USA Considering metropolitan and colonial cultural production as a “unitary field of analysis,” this book shows how tensions in the 1830s between utilitarian and Romantic perspectives on steam power marked meaningful divisions within the pervasive liberal imperialism of the period and generated divergent speculative fantasies, set in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, about the future of Indian nationalism. Poetry and fiction in Britain and Bengal engage with a Romantic strain of thought and sentiment according to which steam technology represents an anti-utilitarian humanization of nature. Within and against that frame and in uneven and different ways, writers in British India map a constellation of liberal values onto their hopes and fears concerning a future powered by steam. Daniel E. White is Professor of English at the University of Toronto and author of Early Romanticism and Religious Dissent (2006) and From Little London to Little Bengal: Religion, Print, and Modernity in Early British India, 1793–1835 (2013). 0aLiterature, Modernx19th century. 0aSciencexHistory.965232 0aImperialism.94566314aNineteenth-Century Literature.24aHistory of Science.96610124aImperialism and Colonialism.9712282 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303160704208iPrinted edition:z978303160706608iPrinted edition:z978303160707340uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60705-9  aZDB-2-LCM  aZDB-2-SXL  c61598d61598