The Novel in Nineteenth-Century Bengal
Becoming Readers in Colonial India
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2025
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-9850-6 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
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How does a reader learn to read an unfamiliar genre? The Novel in Nineteenth-Century Bengal answers this question by looking at the readers of some of the first Bengali novelists, including Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and Mir Mosharraf Hossain. Moving from the world of novels, periodicals, letters, and reviews to that of colonial educational policies, this book provides a rich literary history of the reading lives of some of the earliest novel readers in colonial India.
Sunayani Bhattacharya studies the ways in which Bengalis thought about reading; how they approached the thorny question of influence; and uncovers that they relied on classical Sanskrit and Perso-Arabic literary and aesthetic models, whose attendant traditions formed not a distant past, but coexisted, albeit contentiously, with the everyday present. Challenging dominant postcolonial scholarship, The Novel in Nineteenth-Century Bengal engages with the lived experience of colonial modernity as it traces the import of the Bengali reader’s choices on her quotidian life, and grants access to 19th-century Bengal as a space in which the past is to be found enmeshed with the present.
Sunayani Bhattacharya studies the ways in which Bengalis thought about reading; how they approached the thorny question of influence; and uncovers that they relied on classical Sanskrit and Perso-Arabic literary and aesthetic models, whose attendant traditions formed not a distant past, but coexisted, albeit contentiously, with the everyday present. Challenging dominant postcolonial scholarship, The Novel in Nineteenth-Century Bengal engages with the lived experience of colonial modernity as it traces the import of the Bengali reader’s choices on her quotidian life, and grants access to 19th-century Bengal as a space in which the past is to be found enmeshed with the present.
Sunayani Bhattacharya is Associate Professor of English at Saint Mary’s College of California, USA. Her research areas include postcolonial studies, world literature, global Anglophone studies, and novel studies. She has published her work in the Comparative Literature journal and in several edited volumes.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Establishing the Problem — Reading as a Practice
1. Breaking the Cycle of Bad Readers: Battala Literature, Colonial Pedagogy, and the Idea of Education
2. Becoming a Reader: Letters, Reviews, and Memories of Reading
3. Dear Reader, Good Sir: The Reader and Bankim’s Novels
4. Another World of Reading: Hossain and Islamic Bengali Prose
Conclusion: The Novelty of Reading
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.08.2023 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5013-9850-4 / 1501398504 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5013-9850-6 / 9781501398506 |
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