TY - BOOK AU - Sahota,G.S TI - Late colonial sublime : neo-epics and the end of Romanticism T2 - FlashPoints SN - 9780810136489 AV - PK2037 .S24 2018 U1 - 891.4309 23 PY - 2018/// CY - Evanston PB - Northwestern University Press KW - Hindi literature KW - India KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - 20th century KW - Urdu literature KW - Romanticism KW - Sublime, The, in literature N1 - Includes bibliographic references (pages 247-271) and index; Introduction: Aporias of modernity -- Fractured frames: imperial parallax and disjointed time -- Commodity and sublimity: mimesis of the immaterial -- Romanticism's horizons, or the transmission of critique -- Atmospherics of imperialism: Benjamin's sublime -- Neo-epic constellation: out of British India -- Hali's transvaluation of modernity: allegories of Marsiya -- Iqbal, or the Sturm und Drang of late colonial India: resemblances of pure content -- Utility and culture: modern subjectivity and Hindi neo-traditional aesthetics -- Epilogue: Melancholic ornament: TV Ramayana, nostalgia, and kitsch as counter-Enlightenment ER -