Introduction: Why Re-Orient?; 1. The British Raj's Mimic Men: Historicizing Genteel Masculinities across Empires 2. A Bluestocking Romance: Contesting British Military Masculinity in Joseph Emin's Letters and Memoir; 3. The Theater of Imperial Sovereignty: Entertaining Diplomatic Failure in Mirza Sheikh I'tesamuddin's London Travels; 4. Loving Strangers in Ireland: Indo-Celtic Masculinities in the Travels of Dean Mahomet and Mirza Abu Taleb Khan; 5. Female Bodies in Motion: Performing Sexual Revolution in Mirza Abu Taleb Khan's Theatrical Metropolis; 6. Dreaming with Fairyland: Virtual Magic in Yusuf Khan Kambalposh's Travels to Victorian London; 7. The Making of a Munshi Patriot: Lutfullah Khan, the Indian Mutiny, and Victorian Newsprint; Epilogue: Mirza Abul Hasan Khan, James Morier, and the Queering of Hajji Baba; Appendix A: Abu Taleb's “Treatise on Ethics”; Appendix B: Excerpts from Abu Taleb Khan's Diwān-i-Tālib; Appendix C: Letter by moonshee Lutfullah
Between 1750 and 1857, westward-bound Central and South Asian travelers connected imperial Britain to Persian Indo-Eurasia by performing queer masculinities.
Humberto Garcia is Associate Professor and Vincent Hillyer Chair of Literature at the University of California, Merced. He is the author of Islam and the English Enlightenment, 1670–1840 (2012).
'England Re-Oriented breaks new ground on dozens of Persian, South
Asian, and near Eastern trans-imperial performances that render the
European non-hegemonic. In turning from the givens of orientalism
to a history of orienting to the other, Garcia gives us politically
urgent and deeply learned game-changer.' Misty G. Anderson,
University of Tennessee
'Garcia's richly rewarding book charts a 'new imperial history,'
artfully theorizing and meticulously detailing British discovery of
foreignness within themselves. Problematizing the relationships
between empire and gender, he displays Persianate masculinity
transferring from Indo-Persian rulers to Company men. At once
deeply scholarly and thoroughly readable, this monograph will
encourage vigorous debate and stimulate important research.'
Michael J. Franklin, Swansea University
'Tracking the experiences of seven remarkable Islamicate travelers
in Georgian and Victorian Britain, Garcia devises new strategies
for analyzing intercultural performance, hybrid textuality,
colonial masculinity, and imperial display that will set a new bar
for archival subtlety and theoretical acumen among scholars of
global cultural and social exchange.' Daniel O'Quinn, University of
Guelph
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