social reform and the late nineteenth-century South Asian novel Shandilya, Krupa creator author. text bibliography ilu 2017 monographic eng

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x, 157 pages ; 23 cm. 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. Krupa Shandilya. Includes bibliographical references (page 137-145) and index. 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 PK1712 .S49 2017 891.4430093552 SHA/I 9780810134225 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780810134232 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780810134249 (ebook) 2016007593 IEN/DLC 160217 20231204123828.0 18978338 eng