Intimate relations : social reform and the late nineteenth-century South Asian novel / Krupa Shandilya.

Author
Shandilya, Krupa [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2017.
  • ©2017
Description
x, 157 pages ; 23 cm.

Availability

Available Online

Copies in the Library

Location Call Number Status Location Service Notes
Firestone Library - Stacks PK1712 .S49 2017 Browse related items Request

    Details

    Subject(s)
    Series
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-145) and index.
    Contents
    • 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.
    ISBN
    • 9780810134225 (paperback : alkaline paper)
    • 0810134225 (paperback : alkaline paper)
    • 9780810134232 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
    • 0810134233 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
    LCCN
    2016007593
    OCLC
    939911330
    Statement on language in description
    Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage. Read more...
    Other views
    Staff view