âAn artificial little community which has climbed eight thousand feet out of the world to be coolâ: Sara Jeanette Duncan, Simla, and Middlebrow Aesthetics

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âAn artificial little community which has climbed eight thousand feet out of the world to be coolâ: Sara Jeanette Duncan, Simla, and Middlebrow Aesthetics

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Pages:: 89â102

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004426566_006

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Set in the summer capital of the British Raj, Sara Jeannette Duncanâs short story âAn Impossible Idealâ is a narrative that is directly engaged with concepts of high and low art in the colonial context. âAn Impossible Idealâ provides Duncan with the opportunity to interrogate concepts of taste, distinction, and pretension in the colonial context. This chapter reads âAn Impossible Idealâ as both a colonial fiction that is concerned with cultural capital and also a middlebrow work explicitly contending with artistic value.

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Imperial Middlebrow

Series:Â Literary Modernism, Volume: 7

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004426566

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 28 Apr 2020

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