The Literary Thing: History, Poetry and the Making of a Modern Cultural Sphere

by Rosinka Chaudhuri

Overview

Mapping a fifty-year period that is fundamental to any understanding of nineteenth-century Bengal - 1831 to 1881 - this book focuses on literary debates generated around the works of Iswarchandra Gupta, Rangalal Bandyopadhyay, Madhusudan Datta, Hemchandra Bandyopadhyay, Nabinchandra Sen, and Rabindranath Tagore.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783034317603
Publisher:	Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	01/14/2014
Pages:	334
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.04(d)

About the Author

Rosinka Chaudhuri completed her DPhil in English from the University of Oxford and is now Professor of Cultural Studies at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. She has also been a visiting fellow at the Southern Asian Institute, Columbia University, and Charles Wallace Fellow at Cambridge University.

Table of Contents

Contents: Disjunctions, Conjunctions – Reading Iswarchandra Gupta (1812-1859) – Poet of the Present: The Material Object in the World of Iswar Gupta – ‘Another Wonder of the Nineteenth Century’: Rangalal Bandyopadhyay (1827–1887) – Event, Anecdote, Iconicity: The Legend of Michael Madhusudan Datta – Michael Madhusudan Datta and the Marxist Understanding of the ‘Real Renaissance’ in Bengal – Hemchandra’s ‘Bhārat saṅgīt’ (1870) and the Politics of Poetry: A Pre-History of Hindu Nationalism in Bengal – Cutlets or Fish Curry? : Debating Indian Authenticity – History in Poetry: Nabinchandra Sen’s Palāśīr yuddha (1875) and the Question of Truth – The Curious Case of Nabinchandra Sen and the Textbook Committee: An Investigation into Hindu/Muslim Representations – Rabindranath’s Early Style and Reconstruction of the Past.