Contents

• Introduction: Preliminary Navigations
• 1. The Lusiads and the Asian Reader
• 2. Banyan Trees and Fig Leaves: Some Thoughts on Milton’s India
• 3. Appropriating India: Dryden’s Great Mogul
• 4. James Mill and the Case of the Hottentot Venus
• 5. Hegel’s India and the Surprise of Sin
• 6. Feminizing the Feminine: Early Women Writers on India
• 7. Monstrous Mythologies: Southey and The Curse of Kehama
• 8. Understanding Asia: Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound
• 9. Macaulay: The Moment and the Minute
• Afterword: From Center to Circumference