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Intimate relations : social reform and the late nineteenth-century South Asian novel

Title
Intimate relations : social reform and the late nineteenth-century South Asian novel / Krupa Shandilya.
Author
Shandilya, Krupa
Publication
  • Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2017.
  • ©2017

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Description
x, 157 pages; 23 cm
Series Statement
Flashpoints ; 24
Uniform Title
FlashPoints (Evanston, Ill.) ; 24.
Subject
  • 1800-1899
  • Bengali fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
  • Urdu fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
  • Domestic fiction > History and criticism
  • Women in literature
  • Sex role in literature
  • Bengali fiction
  • Urdu fiction
Genre/Form
  • Domestic fiction.
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Contents
At home in the world : feminist agency in the late-nineteenth century social reform novel -- Desire, death, and the discourse of sati : Bankimchandra Chatterjee's Krishnakanter Uil and Rabindranath Tagore's Chokher Bali -- Erotic worship and the discourse of rights : spiritual feminism in Saratchandra Chatterjee's fiction -- On purdah and poetry : social reform and the status of Urdu poetry in Nazir Ahmad and Hali's fiction -- Poetry, piety and performance : the politics of modesty in M.H. Ruswa's Umrao jaan ada and Junun-e-intezaar -- Towards a feminist modernity : the religious-erotic politics of the modernesque novel.
Call Number
JFE 17-2180
ISBN
  • 9780810134225
  • 0810134225
  • 9780810134232
  • 0810134233
LCCN
2016007593
OCLC
939911330
Author
Shandilya, Krupa, author.
Title
Intimate relations : social reform and the late nineteenth-century South Asian novel / Krupa Shandilya.
Publisher
Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2017.
Copyright Date
©2017
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Flashpoints ; 24
FlashPoints (Evanston, Ill.) ; 24.
Chronological Term
1800-1899
Research Call Number
JFE 17-2180
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