Negotiating India in the Nineteenth-Century Media. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)

David Finkelstein and Douglas M. Peers, eds. Negotiating India in the Nineteenth-Century Media. New York: Palgrave. 2000. Pp. xi, 285. $59.95. ISBN 0-312-2 3465-1.

Is there something distinctive about the way India was understood and information about it communicated to the British public in the Victorian mass media-newspapers and journals? The editors, Finkelstein and Peers, introduce this collection of studies with several claims about the importance and uniqueness of periodical literature. Travel accounts, histories, novels, and memoirs, all of which have been well studied, ...

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