![]() ![]() Plot by way of explanation (as the end of this introduction will have to do), let us turn our (and profoundly proper) ignorance, The Danvers Jewelsĭirects us throughout to the suppressed and silent parts of history. The novel's close, Middleton is so untouched by this revealing detail that it receives neitherĪsking us from the first to read between the lines of Colonel Middleton's parodically profound Touching, it, it isn't wet." (6) Although the emerald bracelet will taste blood again before Rather brown, isn't it, on one side but it will come off. Iĭon't think I'll tell you how the hasp got broken-little accident as the lady who wore it gave it to The hasp is broken, but it makes a pretty bracelet. As Sir John presents Middleton with the jewels of the novel's title, he We meet our narrator, one Colonel Middleton, and his superior, Sir John, an administrator of high Moonstone, to which Cholmondeley's novel bitingly responds. Writers-most notably by Wilkie Collins in The Retaliation, the uncomfortable details of which were generally glossed over by contemporary Jewels gives us a glimpse into this latter part of the war, and the English India as a colony by the British Crown in 1858 India would not gain independence for nearly a The long-term effects of the Mutiny included the consolidation and annexation of "blowing away," involved strapping a living "revel" over the mouth of a cannonĪnd firing it. Some methods of revenge were brutal: one, called Sepoys, but civilian men, women, and children. Own slaughter of native Indians across the continent from the end of 1857 through 1859-not only For the Anglo-Indians, the Mutiny licensed their Their advances culminated in the siege of Lucknow. The sepoys were able to wipe out not only their white officers, but much colonial infrastructure With many of Britain's regiments busy in Iran, Afghanistan, and the Crimea, Greased with a mixture of cow and pig fat since caps had to be bitten off prior to insertingīullets in rifles, this added insult to the injury of colonial subordination for both Hindu and Standard-issue rifle bullets were reportedly being White-officered units, violently exploded. Indian soldiers-sepoys-serving in the British East India Company's army in segregated, In May of 1857, the ever-present discontent of the The Victorians called it, the Sepoy Mutiny. That the sun would in fact set on the British Empire-to the First War of Indian Independence, or, as Written in that year and published the next, takes us back to the moment it first became apparent The introductory tableau of The Danvers Jewels, Even the horse, that symbol of imperial prowess,īecame obsolete: Karl Benz patented the first gas-powered automobile in 1886. AmericanĮconomic power pulled even with Britain's. Of Bavaria, died, and Bismark consolidated his rule of a united and rivalrous Germany. Parliament: the beginning of the end for the British domination of Ireland. Gladstone introduced the contentious Irish Home Rule Bill in Bookmark: Introduction to The Danvers Jewels By Mara Inglezakisġ886 was a bad year for empire. ![]() Publication Year: 2011 Source: Bloomington, IN: Digital Library Program, Indiana University, 2011. Author Affiliation: Indiana University, Bloomington. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.Title: Introduction to The Danvers Jewels.Īuthor: Inglezakis, Mara L. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. His source materials include the writings of travelers, diarists, civil servants, soldiers, and retired officials such literature as Jane Eyre, A Passage to India, Oakfield by William Arnold, the Works of Kipling letters, essays, newspaper articles, and records of the Parliamentary hearings following the Mutiny. The author stresses that the illusion of permanence began some years before the Great Mutiny of 1857, although it was the Mutiny that made the subsequent imperialistic attitude rigid. By combining the techniques of intellectual history and social psychology Professor Hutchins provides a new perspective for an understanding of the intellectual atmosphere of British imperialism in India in the nineteenth century.
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