{"product_id":"india-in-early-modern-english-travel-writings-protestantism-enlightenment-and-toleration-studies-in-medieval-and-reformation-traditions-226","title":"India in Early Modern English Travel Writings: Protestantism, Enlightenment, and Toleration (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 226)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook info:\u003c\/strong\u003e India in Early Modern English Travel Writings: Protestantism, Enlightenment, and Toleration (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 226) (Hardcover, 288 pages) – Brill, 2021. Language: English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n 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.  \n\n                                         Editorial Reviews                   Review   \"It breaks new ground in relating the ‘ideology of [the] travel narratives to [the rational turn] in seventeenth-century European thought’, which discarded the divine and miraculous justifications for the world phenomena. With an interdisciplinary focus, the book takes a historicist approach, draws upon contemporary theories, particularly the feminist framework, and provides a captivating and joyful read for both the academic reader and a general literary audience.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sucharita Sen, Victoria University of Wellington, in New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 24.1, pp. 121-123           About the Author   Rita Banerjee, PhD (1997, Northern Illinois University) is research scholar at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. She has published articles, book chapters, and a monograph on early modern literature, and recently edited the collection Cultural Histories of India (Routledge, 2020).                                           ","brand":"Rita Banerjee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46070566486250,"sku":"9789004420960","price":190.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/5301\/6298\/files\/71MIfYzwX5L._SL1500.jpg?v=1781270932","url":"https:\/\/textbookme.store\/products\/india-in-early-modern-english-travel-writings-protestantism-enlightenment-and-toleration-studies-in-medieval-and-reformation-traditions-226","provider":"TextbookMe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}