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Amitav Ghosh (b.1956, Kolkata) is the author of the novels The Circle of Reason (1986), The Shadow Lines (1988), The Calcutta Chromosome (1995), The Glass Palace (2000), The Hungry Tide (2004), and Gun Island (2019), and a number of works of non-fiction. The Ibis trilogy was published between 2008 and 2015, and is set before and during the First Opium War. This essay begins with a discussion of urban and colonial space in Victorian realist fiction before offering some perspectives on Ghosh’s trilogy.
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Dasgupta, U. (2021). Amitav Ghosh and the Ibis Trilogy. In: Tambling, J. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62592-8_311-1
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