By Arie L. Molendijk
This quantity bargains a severe research of 1 the main formidable editorial initiatives of overdue Victorian Britain: the variation of the fifty immense volumes of the Sacred Books of the East (1879-1910). The sequence was once edited and conceptualized by means of Friedrich Max Muller (1823-1900), a world-famous German-born philologist, orientalist, and spiritual student. Muller and his influential Oxford colleagues secured monetary help from the India place of work of the British Empire and from Oxford collage Press. Arie L. Molendijk files how the sequence has turn into a landmark within the improvement of the humanities-especially the examine of faith and language-in the second one half the 19th century. The variation additionally contributed considerably to the Western belief of the "religious" or maybe "mystic" East, which used to be textually represented in English translations. The sequence used to be a token of the increase of 'big technological know-how' and textualized the East, via identifying their 'sacred books' and bringing them less than the facility of western scholarship.
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Max Müller must have fallen immediately in love with Georgina and asked his friend James Froude to take Miss Grenfell into confidence to explore the possibilities of marriage. 53 Chaudhuri’s discovery of Georgina’s diary makes it possible to tell the story in more detail. Her diary is indeed, as Chaudhuri writes, an extraordinary document, which describes ‘her suffering 49 50 LLB I, 147; LLA I, 154. LLB I, 180; LLA I, 189f. LLB I, 228; LLA I, 239. 52 Chaudhuri, Scholar Extraordinary, pp. , Miss Grenfell to Froude, 10 February 1854.
Robert A. Yelle, The Language of Disenchantment. Protestant Literalism and Colonial Discourse in British India, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, pp. 100f. 27 Bernard S. : Cambridge University Press, 1988, pp. 165–209, p. 182; LLB I, 116 and 267; LLA I, 121 and 281. 28 Müller, Rig-Veda-Sanhita, vol. III, preface. 29 Max Müller, ed. , Rig-Veda-Sanhita, the Sacred Hymns of the Brahmans, vol. I: Hymns to the Maruts or the Storm-Gods, London: Trübner, 1869; Max Müller, A History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature.
252. Chaudhuri, Scholar Extraordinary, p. 218, without mentioning a source; the same passage is quoted in Peter Sutcliffe, Oxford University Press. An Informal History, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978, p. 47, who does not give a source either. V. H. H. Green, Oxford Common Room. A Study of Lincoln College and Mark Pattison, London: Edward Arnold, 1957, p. 219, again without giving a source. Manley, ‘Max Müller and the Bodleian Sub-Librarianship, 1865’, p. 34, n. 4, refers to Bodleian Library, MS Pattison 130: Mark Pattison’s diary, 7 December 1860.