India’s Literary History India’s Literary History

India’s Literary History

Essays on the Nineteenth Century

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Publisher Description

This book, the first major reassessment of literary history in nineteenth-century India for a generation, opens up this emerging field of literary history to nineteenth-century India. Its essays emphasise the making of literary history, the process of canonisation, the reinvention of literary tradition, and the writing of literary history itself. A central premise of the book is that when European literary cultures arrived in India, they came into contact with popular performance forms and complex literary cultures that had their own histories. The essays also reach beyond the obvious genres and include little-known texts, situating them within a wider debate about national origins, linguistic identities, and political entitlements. Print culture and oral tales, drama and gender, library use and publishing history, theatre and audiences, detective fiction and low-caste novels are among the topics covered.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2013
April 30
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
459
Pages
PUBLISHER
Permanent Black
SELLER
Orient Blackswan Private Limited
SIZE
2.6
MB

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