Orientalist Jones : Sir William Jones, poet, lawyer, and linguist, 1746-1794 /

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Author / Creator:Franklin, Michael J.
Imprint:Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Description:xii, 396 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8550611
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ISBN:9780199532001
0199532001
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [362]-373) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Claiming kin in Calcutta : Jones discovers the Indo-European family of languages
  • 'Persian' Jones, London Welshman, surveys his roots
  • 'Druid' Jones on the Carmarthen circuit : radicalization and recreation on the Celtic fringe
  • Impressive patrons and impressing mariners
  • Republican Jones and the 'poetry of politics' : fragments of liberty
  • Knowing India : Asiatic researches/recreations
  • Europe falls in love with Sakuntala
  • Life and death in Calcutta : a courtroom view of the ethics of empire
  • 'Indo-Persian' Jones and Indian pluralism.