War of no pity; the Indian Mutiny and Victorian trauma.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

From: Reference & Research Book News | Date: May 1, 2008 | Copyright information

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War of no pity; the Indian Mutiny and Victorian trauma.

Herbert, Christopher.

Princeton U. Press

2008

334 pages

$35.00

Hardcover

PR468

Herbert (humanities, Northwestern U.) traces the British Victorian cultural reaction to the events of the Indian Mutiny of 1857 (also known as the Sepoy Rebellion or, in India, the First War of Independence). Examining journalistic a...