Wordsworth in the Himalayas:

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" Wordsworth in the Himalayas: "
Diana Louise Gander Ostrander

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1081434
Doc. No	:	LA125063
Call No	:	‭10.1163/107992610X12592913031784‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Diana Louise Gander Ostrander
Title & Author	:	Wordsworth in the Himalayas: [Article] : Indian Narratology and Sacred Space in William Delafield Arnold’s Oakfield: Fellowship in the East\ Diana Louise Gander Ostrander
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and the Arts
Date	:	2010
Volume/ Issue Number	:	14/1-2
Page No	:	34–58
Abstract	:	William Delafield Arnold’s single novel, Oakfield: Fellowship in the East, is a transparently autobiographical account of what happens when the earnestness of a son and pupil of Dr. Thomas Arnold encounters the ancient world of India in the decade of the Sepoy Rebellion. This essay explores what has been far less apparent to Western readers and critics: the presence of Indian philosophy at the heart of the novel. Following in the tradition of the Wordsworthian Romantic prophet, W. D. Arnold relates Oakfield’s spiritual search and enlightenment to present the novel itself as the spiritual common ground that the hero seeks. The use of Indian narratological devices produces variegation by ancient spiritual design, merging the myths of enlightened beings East and West, including Brahmins, Buddha, Wordsworth, and Oakfield, on epiphanic mountains. The novel celebrates the potential for Western enlightenment discovered in the Himalayas, but also warns Britain that the colonizing effort is responsible for the loss of England’s best and brightest.
Descriptor	:	“Mutiny”
Descriptor	:	Anglo-Indian novels
Descriptor	:	Art History
Descriptor	:	Buddhism
Descriptor	:	Colonial India
Descriptor	:	Comparative Religion Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	History
Descriptor	:	Orientalism
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Sepoy Rebellion
Descriptor	:	Victorian novel
Descriptor	:	William Delafield Arnold
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/107992610X12592913031784‬