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Dear Reader, Good Sir: The Birth of the Novel in Nineteenth-Century Bengal.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Dear Reader, Good Sir: The Birth of the Novel in Nineteenth-Century Bengal./
Author:	Bhattacharya, Sunayani.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	182 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-09(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-09A(E).
Subject:	South Asian studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10261513
ISBN:	9781369753356

Dear Reader, Good Sir: The Birth of the Novel in Nineteenth-Century Bengal.
Bhattacharya, Sunayani.

Dear Reader, Good Sir: The Birth of the Novel in Nineteenth-Century Bengal. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 182 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-09(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oregon, 2017.

My dissertation traces the formation and growth of the reader of the Bengali novel in nineteenth century Bengal through a close study of the writings by Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay that comment on---and respond to---both the reader and the newly emergent genre of the Bengali novel. In particular, I focus on the following texts: two novels written by Bankim, Durgesnandini (The Lady of the Castle) (1865) and Bishabr&dotbelow;ksha (The Poison Tree) (1872), literary essays published in nineteenth century Bengali periodicals, personal letters written by Bankim and his contemporaries, and reviews of the novels, often written and published anonymously. I suggest that by examining the reader of the Bengali novel it becomes possible to understand how the individual Bengali negotiates the changes occurring in nineteenth century Bengal---an era in which traditional beliefs collide with the intellectual and technological innovations brought on by colonial modernity. As my dissertation shows colonialism is far from being a disembodied institution operating at the level of governments and ideologies. Instead, it becomes evident that with the novel, colonial modernity enters the Bengali home in the form of changing moral paradigms. What the Bengali reader chooses to read, and how she performs her reading come to have a real import in her quotidian life.

ISBN: 9781369753356Subjects--Topical Terms:

3172880
South Asian studies.

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