TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chaudhury, Rosinka
TI  - The literary thing: history, poetry and the making of a modern culture sphere 
SN  - 9780198089667
U1  - 891.4409 Cha/Lit 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Oxford University Press
N1  - Includes index;  Disjunctions, Conjunctions - Reading Iswarchandra Gupta (1812-1859) - Poet of the Present: The Material Object in the World of Iswar Gupta - 'Another Wonder of the Nineteenth Century': Rangalal Bandyopadhyay (1827-1887) - Event, Anecdote, Iconicity: The Legend of Michael Madhusudan Datta - Michael Madhusudan Datta and the Marxist Understanding of the 'Real Renaissance' in Bengal - Hemchandra's 'Bharat sangit' (1870) and the Politics of Poetry: A Pre-History of Hindu Nationalism in Bengal - Cutlets or Fish Curry?: Debating Indian Authenticity - History in Poetry: Nabinchandra Sen's Palasir yuddha (1875) and the Question of Truth - The Curious Case of Nabinchandra Sen and the Textbook Committee: An Investigation into Hindu/Muslim Representations - Rabindranath's Early Style and Reconstruction of the Past
N2  - Mapping a fifty-year period that is fundamental to any understanding of nineteenth-century Bengal - 1831 to 1881, this book focuses on literary debates generated around the works of Iswarchandra Gupta, Rangalal Bandyopadhyay, Madhusudan Datta, Hemchandra Bandyopadhyay, Nabinchandra Sen, and Rabindranath Tagore.
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