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Intimate Relations [electronic resource]

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Title Intimate Relations [electronic resource] : Social Reform and the Late Nineteenth-Century South Asian Novel / Krupa Shandilya.
Publisher Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press
Creation Date 2017
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.
Content 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.
Series Flashpoints
Extent 1 online resource (169 pages)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2017
National Library system number 997012747044705171
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