Intimate relations : social reform and the late nineteenth-century South Asian novel /
Shandilya, Krupa,
Intimate relations : social reform and the late nineteenth-century South Asian novel / Krupa Shandilya. - Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource. - Flashpoints .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
9780810134249
Bengali fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Urdu fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Domestic fiction--History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Electronic Books.
PK1712 / .I585 2017
Intimate relations : social reform and the late nineteenth-century South Asian novel / Krupa Shandilya. - Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource. - Flashpoints .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
9780810134249
Bengali fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Urdu fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Domestic fiction--History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Electronic Books.
PK1712 / .I585 2017