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100	1		_aMitra, Samarpita.
245	1	0	_aPeriodicals, Readers and the Making of a Modern Literary Culture : _bBengal at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aBoston : _bBRILL, _c2020.
264		4	_c©2020.
300			_a1 online resource (447 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aBrill's Indological Library ; _vv.52
505	0		_aIntro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures and Tables -- Note on Transliteration of Bengali Terms -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Māsik patrikā: A New Cultural Artefact? -- 1 Colonial Archives and the Making of Literary Periodicals: The Bengal Library Catalogues -- 2 An Emergent Bengali Literary Sphere: the Baṅgadarśan Divide -- 2.1 Reading in the Pre-Baṅgadarśan Years -- 2.2 The Baṅgadarśan Experiment -- 3 Professionalizing Literary Journalism: Aspects of Periodical Publishing -- Chapter 2 -- The Social Space of māsik patrikā: Periodicals Market and Readership -- 1 Making of the sacitra māsik patrikā: Ramananda Chattopadhyay's Prabāsī -- 1.1 Beginnings and Organization -- 1.2 Prabāsī's Innovations and Popularity -- 2 Becoming a Family Magazine: The War and the Exigencies of Commercial Publishing -- 3 Envisioning the Aesthete Reader: Literacy, Education and Reading -- 3.1  Charting Periodical Readership -- 3.2  Vernacular Education, Periodical Readership and the Public Sphere -- 3.3  Libraries and Periodical Holdings -- 4 Leisure, Periodicals and Suitable Reading -- Chapter 3 -- Determining the Frontiers of Obscenity, Aesthetics and Realism: Debates over aślīlatā in Literary Periodicals -- 1 Cleansing Literature: The Colonialist and Reformist Efforts -- 2 The Periodical Media, Serial Fiction and the Formation of a New Aesthetic: Baṅgadarśan -- 3 An Emergent Counter-Fiction Discourse -- 4 Sāhitya Samālocanā: Regulating the Public Sphere -- 5 -- 5.1 The Body, Its Diseases and the Threat of Epidemic -- 5.2 Marriage, Hindu Patriarchy and Post-war Economic Crises -- 5.3 A Different Take on Aślīlatā -- 6 Tagore's Citrāṅgadā: A Warped Mythology or Foregrounding a New Aesthetic? -- 7 Realism, Psychoanalysis and the Question of Obscenity -- 6.1 The Kallol Group and Their New Literary Aesthetic (bāstabatā).
505	8		_a6.2 Manabikalan: A New Literary Apparatus? -- Chapter 4 -- The Way to Traverse: Literary Separatism or Towards a Shared Literary Space -- 1 Bengali-Muslim Periodicals Publishing -- 1.1  The Saogāt Divide: A Breakthrough in Periodical Publishing -- 1.2  Mentoring Writers -- 1.3 Awaiting a Readership? -- 2 The Language Debates and Bengali Muslims' Quest for a Literary Language -- 3 The Debates on Genres: Fiction or History? -- 3.1  'Muslim' History and Correcting Biases in Hindu Historiography -- 3.2  National History and its 'Muslim' Critique: Methodological Questions -- 3.3 Revisionist History in School Curriculum -- 3.4  Revisionism in the Popular Media -- 3.5 Histories of the Islamicate World Beyond India -- 3.6  Epic and the Practice of Authentic History -- 4 The Call for Emancipation of the Mind: Saogāt and Buddhir Mukti Āndolan -- 4.1  Recuperating a Rational Religion: Classical Islam and Bengal Islam -- 4.2  The Saogāt-Mohāmmadī Rivalry -- Chapter 5 -- The Limits of Literary License: What Could Women Read and Write on? -- 1 Home, Reform and Nationalism -- 2 Content of Women's Journals -- 3 Delineating a Female Readership: Domesticity, Leisure and Journal Reading -- 4 Only Good Wives (sugṝhiṇī) Can Bring up Good Wives: Journal Writing as a Vocation -- 5 Education, Income and Changing Lives for Women -- 6 Women Writing Protest: Muslim Women, Abarodh and Publicity -- Chapter 6 -- Political Discourse in the Bengali Literary Sphere: The Khilafat Non-Cooperation Years -- 1 Editorials, Readers and the Making of a Literary Political Culture -- 2 The Call of mahāsṝṣṭi (the Grand Creation): The Gandhian Spinner or the Tagorean Byakti-mānab -- 3 Summoning Mahāpralaẏ (the Grand Catastrophe): Nazrul Islam, Dhūmketu and the Contemplation of Cosmic Dissolution -- 3.1 Dhūmketu: Cacophony or a Militant Call for Buddhir Mukti? -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.
505	8		_aIndex.
520			_aPeriodicals, Readers and the Making of a Modern Literary Culture is a study of literary periodicals and the Bengali public sphere at the turn of the twentieth century, the variety of interests and concerns that animated this domain and how literary relations were seen to constitute new social solidarities.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aMitra, Samarpita _tPeriodicals, Readers and the Making of a Modern Literary Culture: Bengal at the Turn of the Twentieth Century _dBoston : BRILL,c2020 _z9789004425644
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
830		0	_aBrill's Indological Library
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=6247794 _zClick to View
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