The novel in nineteenth-century Bengal : becoming readers in colonial India /
Sunayani Bhattacharya.
Bok Engelsk 2023
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| Omfang | pages cm
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| Opplysninger | Introduction: Establishing the problem: reading as practice -- Breaking the cycle of bad readers: Battala literature, colonial pedagogy, and the idea of education -- Becoming a reader: letters, reviews, and memories of reading -- Dead reader, good sir: the reader and Bankim's novels -- Another world of reading: Hossain and Islamic Bengali prose -- Conclusion: The novelty of reading.. - "Examines a history of reading practices in 19th-century Bengal at the intersection of Sanskrit and Perso-Arabic aesthetics, British colonial pedagogy, and the rise of Bengali novels"--
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| ISBN | 9781501398469. - 9781501398506
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