India's literary history : essays on the nineteenth century /
India's literary history : essays on the nineteenth century /
edited by Stuart Blackburn & Vasudha Dalmia
- Delhi : Permanent Black, c2004.
- xi, 515 p.; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction /Stuart Blackburn and Vasudha Dalmia
Performance and Identity
2. Between print and performance /Indira Viswanathan Peterson -- 3. Language, Community and the theatrical public /Kathryn Hansen -- Impersonation, narration, desire, and the Parsi Theatre /Anuradha Kapur
Print and Prose Narratives
5. The burden of authenticity /Stuart Blackburn -- 6. Print and prose /Velcheru Narayan Rao -- 7. Entertainment and reform /Christina Oesterheld -- 8. Multiple temporalities, unsettled boundaries, trickster women /Kumkum Sangari
Publication, Circulation, and Control
9. Hindi publishing in the heart of an Indo-Persian cultural metropolis /Ulrike Stark -- 10. Reading in the public eye /Priya Joshi
The Genre of the New City
11. Dalpatram and the nature of literary shifts in nineteenth-century Ahmedabad /Svati Joshi -- The modern Babu and the metropolis /Hans Harder -- Generic questions /Vasudha Dalmia -- Detective novels /Francesca Orsini -- A place elsewhere /Dilip M. Menon
8178241722
Indic Literature (English)--History and Criticism
Indic Literature--History and Criticism
891.409 / BLA/I
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction /Stuart Blackburn and Vasudha Dalmia
Performance and Identity
2. Between print and performance /Indira Viswanathan Peterson -- 3. Language, Community and the theatrical public /Kathryn Hansen -- Impersonation, narration, desire, and the Parsi Theatre /Anuradha Kapur
Print and Prose Narratives
5. The burden of authenticity /Stuart Blackburn -- 6. Print and prose /Velcheru Narayan Rao -- 7. Entertainment and reform /Christina Oesterheld -- 8. Multiple temporalities, unsettled boundaries, trickster women /Kumkum Sangari
Publication, Circulation, and Control
9. Hindi publishing in the heart of an Indo-Persian cultural metropolis /Ulrike Stark -- 10. Reading in the public eye /Priya Joshi
The Genre of the New City
11. Dalpatram and the nature of literary shifts in nineteenth-century Ahmedabad /Svati Joshi -- The modern Babu and the metropolis /Hans Harder -- Generic questions /Vasudha Dalmia -- Detective novels /Francesca Orsini -- A place elsewhere /Dilip M. Menon
8178241722
Indic Literature (English)--History and Criticism
Indic Literature--History and Criticism
891.409 / BLA/I