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Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Very pleased to have just received the final MS for 'The Bloomsbury Handbook of Romanticism in Britain and Asia', from volume editors Rosinka Chaudhuri, Peter J. Kitson, and Alex Watson. Spanning 28 chapters, it'll be a landmark text on the topic. Sneak peak at the ToC below...

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Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Introduction: Romanticism in Britain and Asia. Rosinka Chaudhuri, Peter J. Kitson, and Alex Watson 1–44

Part I Histories and Contexts
1. Romanticism in the Colony: Orientalism, Translation, and the Aesthetic unconscious in British India. Baidik Bhattacharya 45–66
2. Romantic Orientalism and Asia. Alex Watson 67–92
3. The English East India Company, Colonialism, and Empire. Callie Wilkinson 93-–17
4. Obedient Despots: Indirect Rule and the Lure of Empire in Early British India. Sudipta Sen
118–140
5. Asian Religions and Romanticism. Chris Murray 141–168
6. Sati, Colonialism, and the Romantic Imagination. Andrea Major 169–190
7. Circulating Plants: Canton, Calcutta, Kew. Kate Teltscher 191–222
8. Romantic Ecology and Asia. Robert E. Markley 223–252
9. War, Resistance, and Revolt. Peter J. Kitson 253–283

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Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Part II Peoples, Places, and Cross-Cultural Encounters
10. India, 1770–1813: Early Anglophone Writing. James Mulholland 284–310
11. India (1814–40): Later British Writing. Máire ní Fhlathúin 311–334
12. Remaking British Romanticism: Women Poets in Nineteenth-century India. Mary Ellis Gibson 335–359
13. On Ideas of the Bengal Renaissance and the Thing Itself. Rosinka Chaudhuri 360–381
14. China (1770-1842): From Chinoiserie to Opium. Elizabeth Chang 382–403
15. Hermit Kingdoms: British Ideas of Japan and Tibet, 1760–1860. Laurence Williams 404–428
16. Malay Dreams: Knowledge, History, and Colonial Expansion in Southeast Asia. Christina Skott 429-–56
17. Pan-Buddhism and Heritage-making across Maritime Networks. Himanshu Prabha Ray
457–477
18. Britain, India, China, and the Opium Trade. Daniel Sanjiv Roberts 478–505
19. Tea. Markman Ellis 506–530

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