Yumna Siddiqi grew up in Bombay, where she lived by the sea. She went to college at Brandeis University outside Boston and earned a Ph.D. in English and comparative literature at Columbia University in New York City. She is now associate professor of English at Middlebury College in Vermont.

[A] well-written and scholarly work. English Literature in Transition 1880-1920

• Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Colonial Anxieties and the Fiction of Intrigue 2. Imperial Intrigue in an English Country House 3. Sherlock Holmes and "the Cesspool of Empire": The Return of the Repressed 4. The Fiction of Counterinsurgency 5. Intermezzo: Postcolonial Modernity and the Fiction of Intrigue 6. Police and Postcolonial Rationality in Amitav Ghosh's The Circle of Reason 7. "Deep in Blood": Roy, Rushdie, and the Representation of State Violence in India 8. "The Unhistorical Dead": Violence, History, and Narrative in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost Conclusion: "Power Smashes Into Private Lives": Cultural Politics in the New Empire Notes Index

Yumna Siddiqi grew up in Bombay, where she lived by the sea. She went to college at Brandeis University outside Boston and earned a Ph.D. in English and comparative literature at Columbia University in New York City. She is now associate professor of English at Middlebury College in Vermont.

[A] well-written and scholarly work. English Literature in Transition 1880-1920

• Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Colonial Anxieties and the Fiction of Intrigue 2. Imperial Intrigue in an English Country House 3. Sherlock Holmes and "the Cesspool of Empire": The Return of the Repressed 4. The Fiction of Counterinsurgency 5. Intermezzo: Postcolonial Modernity and the Fiction of Intrigue 6. Police and Postcolonial Rationality in Amitav Ghosh's The Circle of Reason 7. "Deep in Blood": Roy, Rushdie, and the Representation of State Violence in India 8. "The Unhistorical Dead": Violence, History, and Narrative in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost Conclusion: "Power Smashes Into Private Lives": Cultural Politics in the New Empire Notes Index

Yumna Siddiqi grew up in Bombay, where she lived by the sea. She went to college at Brandeis University outside Boston and earned a Ph.D. in English and comparative literature at Columbia University in New York City. She is now associate professor of English at Middlebury College in Vermont.

[A] well-written and scholarly work. English Literature in Transition 1880-1920

• Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Colonial Anxieties and the Fiction of Intrigue 2. Imperial Intrigue in an English Country House 3. Sherlock Holmes and "the Cesspool of Empire": The Return of the Repressed 4. The Fiction of Counterinsurgency 5. Intermezzo: Postcolonial Modernity and the Fiction of Intrigue 6. Police and Postcolonial Rationality in Amitav Ghosh's The Circle of Reason 7. "Deep in Blood": Roy, Rushdie, and the Representation of State Violence in India 8. "The Unhistorical Dead": Violence, History, and Narrative in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost Conclusion: "Power Smashes Into Private Lives": Cultural Politics in the New Empire Notes Index