Conquest narratives: Romanticism, Orientalism and intertextuality in the Indian writings of Sir Walter Scott and Robert Orme

Romantic Representations of British India

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 238-258

  Peers, Douglas M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203966679     Document Type: Chapter

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