The Literary Thing History, Poetry, and the Making of a Modern Cultural Sphere
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Rosinka Chaudhuri
Oxford University Press
400 pages, Rs 995
The 50 years between 1831 and 1881 in Bengal were “a period in flux … a heterogeneous space, full of odd impulses and conflicting movements, in which the old co-existed with the new, while the experience of the modern shot through and permeated every offshoot of the literary enterprise.” This book explores the formulation of a modern literary culture in Bengal by examining responses to the works of poets Iswarchandra Gupta, Madhusudan Dutt, Rabindranath Tagore and others. It investigates the place of the aesthetic, the political and the collective in the making of a modern cultural sphere.
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