{"product_id":"the-novel-in-nineteenth-century-bengal-becoming-readers-in-colonial-india-paperback","title":"The Novel in Nineteenth-Century Bengal: Becoming Readers in Colonial India - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSunayani Bhattacharya\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow does a reader learn to read an unfamiliar genre? \u003ci\u003eThe Novel in Nineteenth-Century Bengal\u003c\/i\u003e answers this question by looking at the readers of some of the first Bengali novelists, including Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and Mir Mosharraf Hossain. Moving from the world of novels, periodicals, letters, and reviews to that of colonial educational policies, this book provides a rich literary history of the reading lives of some of the earliest novel readers in colonial India. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSunayani Bhattacharya studies the ways in which Bengalis thought about reading; how they approached the thorny question of influence; and uncovers that they relied on classical Sanskrit and Perso-Arabic literary and aesthetic models, whose attendant traditions formed not a distant past, but coexisted, albeit contentiously, with the everyday present. Challenging dominant postcolonial scholarship, \u003ci\u003eThe Novel in Nineteenth-Century Bengal\u003c\/i\u003e engages with the lived experience of colonial modernity as it traces the import of the Bengali reader's choices on her quotidian life, and grants access to 19th-century Bengal as a space in which the past is to be found enmeshed with the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSunayani Bhattacharya\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of English at Saint Mary's College of California, USA. Her research areas include postcolonial studies, world literature, global Anglophone studies, and novel studies. She has published her work in the \u003ci\u003eComparative Literature\u003c\/i\u003e journal and in several edited volumes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.49 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 20, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52704138854707,"sku":"9781501398506","price":78.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/Fxsgonss2X9781501398506.webp?v=1763348282","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-novel-in-nineteenth-century-bengal-becoming-readers-in-colonial-india-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}