{"product_id":"orientalist-jones-sir-william-jones-poet-lawyer-and-linguist-1746-1794-9780199532001","title":"'Orientalist Jones': Sir William Jones, Poet, Lawyer, and Linguist, 1746-1794","description":"A critical biography of Sir William Jones (1746-94), the foremost Orientalist of his generation and one of the greatest intellectual navigators of all time, whose Sanskrit researches did more than any other writer to destroy Eurocentric prejudice, reshaping Western perceptions of India and the Orient.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMichael J. Franklin\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Swansea University. His main current area of interest is the study of colonial representations of India and their various interfaces with Romanticism, and he has published widely on this subject and on the work of Sir William Jones, including the critical biography \u003cem\u003eSir William Jones\u003c\/em\u003e (1995), and (as editor)\u003cem\u003eSir William Jones: Selected Poetical and Prose Works\u003c\/em\u003e (1995), \u003cem\u003eRepresenting India: Indian Culture and Imperial Control\u003c\/em\u003e (2000), and \u003cem\u003eThe European Discovery of India: Key Indological Sources of Romanticism\u003c\/em\u003e (2001). His most recent books are an edited collection of essays, \u003cem\u003eRomantic Representations of British India\u003c\/em\u003e (2006), and a scholarly edition of Phebe Gibbes, \u003cem\u003eHartly House, Calcutta\u003c\/em\u003e (2007), also published by Oxford University Press.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"OUP Oxford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50872473714962,"sku":"9780199532001","price":96.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ba98e0b5-ea0a-44da-bf9e-a2ea6947631d.jpg?v=1737899158","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/orientalist-jones-sir-william-jones-poet-lawyer-and-linguist-1746-1794-9780199532001","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}