{"product_id":"orientalist-jones-sir-william-jones-poet-lawyer-and-linguist-1746-1794-hardcover","title":"'Orientalist Jones': Sir William Jones, Poet, Lawyer, and Linguist, 1746-1794 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael J. Franklin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSir William Jones (1746-94) was the foremost Orientalist of his generation and one of the greatest intellectual navigators of all time. He re-drew the map of European thought. 'Orientalist' Jones was an extraordinary man and an intensely colourful figure. At the age of twenty-six, Jones was elected to Dr Johnson's Literary Club, on terms of intimacy with the metropolitan luminaries of the day. The names of his friends in Britain and India present a roll-call of late eighteenth-century glitterati: Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Priestley, Edmund Burke, Warren Hastings, Johannes Zoffany, Edward Gibbon, Oliver Goldsmith, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Charles James Fox, William Pitt, and David Garrick. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Bengal his Sanskrit researches marked the beginning of Indo-European comparative grammar, and modern comparative-historical linguistics, of Indology, and the disciplines of comparative literature, philology, mythology, and law. He did more than any other writer to destroy Eurocentric prejudice, reshaping Western perceptions of India and the Orient. His commitment to the translation of culture, a multiculturalism fascinated as much by similitude as difference, profoundly influenced European and British Romanticism, offering the West disconcerting new relationships and disorienting orientations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJones's translation of the Hindu myth of Sakuntala (1789) led to an Oriental renaissance in the West and cultural revolution in India. Remembered with great affection throughout the subcontinent as a man who facilitated India's cultural assimilation into the modern world, Jones helped to build India's future on the immensity, sophistication, and pluralism of its past. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMichael J. Franklin's extensive archival research reveals new insights into this radical intellectual: a figure characterized by Goethe as 'a far-seeing man, he seeks to connect the unknown to the known', and described by Dr Johnson as 'the most enlightened of the sons of men'. Unpublished poems and new letters shed fresh light upon Jones in rare moments of relaxation, while Franklin's research of the legal documents in the courts of the King's Bench, the Carmarthen circuit, and the Supreme Court of Bengal illustrates his passion for social justice, his legal acumen, and his principled independence.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 408\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.94 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 25, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48821827830008,"sku":"9780199532001","price":151.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/OWndmTvrQF9780199532001.webp?v=1780667431","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/orientalist-jones-sir-william-jones-poet-lawyer-and-linguist-1746-1794-hardcover","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}