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... From India.” Meanings of Modernity: Britain From the Late-Victorian Era to World War II . Ed. Martin Daunton and Bernhard Rieger. Oxford: Berg, 2001 . 221 –40. Carey , John . The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia, 1880–1939 . London...

... the Individuation of Adela Quested in E. M. Forster’s and David Lean’s A Passage to India.” Heroines of Popular Culture . Ed. Pat Browne. Bowling Green: Bowling Green State U Popular P, 1987 . 41 –53. Buhariwala , Shervavaz . Arcades to a Dome: Humanism in the Novels of E. M. Forster . Atlantic...

... the geographic regions on India's periphery, toward which the novel's action drives but which it never ultimately reaches, and two “developmental genres,” the picaresque and the bildungsroman, which the novel holds in tension. It argues further that whereas earlier studies of Kim and the bildungsroman have...

... is evident in a range of new literary and cultural productions since around 2000 in India and across the Third World and marks the contemporary moment by registering the inadequacy of earlier literary trends in deliberate ways. This essay seeks to illuminate the contours of the realist impulse through...

... of Small Things' feminist legal critique is not only perceptive and timely, but it also offers a crucial insight into the political stakes of the novel's aesthetic form. I use political and legal theory to identify India's property law and juridical economy as “possessive,” or exclusionary, and to explain...

...‐based BLM protests of 2020 are considered alongside Indian politics in the same period, both through the Indian farmers’ protests that began in late 2020 and through an analysis of a successful 2020 US novel about India, Megha Majumdar's A Burning . This novel was explicitly connected by US readers...

... learn from the distance irony produces and as the occasion for testing tentative styles of reattachment to the metropole that seek deeper knowledge of British India and late imperial London than colonial exhibitions can display. Reading such texts today calls not for reaffirmations for ironic distance...

...) of the Indian writer in the second half of the twentieth century. The issue at hand is much more complicated than is usually represented as the chasm between the India-based and the Indian diasporic writer. All through the twentieth century, novels written by writers of Indian origin from either location can...

... Syncretic.” Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities . Ed. Antoinette Burton. London: Routledge, 1999 . 193 –206. Gandhi , M. K. “A Drain Inspector’s Report.” Young India 15 Sept . 1927 . Gaobcsi-Williams , Lisa . “The Intellectualism of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Evolutionary...

... evoked-richly documented by Christopher Herbert in War of No Pity-an "extraordinary countercurrent" that was "tremendously robust and public" (16). This "countercurrent" criticized jingoism, racism, vindictiveness, and sometimes the entire imperial project in India. Herbert's book, then, joins...

....” Enlightenment Essays 4 ( 1973 ): 15 –28. Critchley , T.A. The Conquest of Violence: Order and Liberty in Britain . New York: Schocken Books, 1970 . Galbraith , John Kenneth . Introduction to The History of British India. Mill. Gikandi , Simon . Maps of Englishness: Writing...

... described, in his manifesto at the 1936 founding of the All-India Progressive Writers’ Association (AIPWA) in Lucknow, as literature in which some truth is made evident. . . . In literature this quality is pro- duced in full form when life’s realities and feelings are manifested...

... was left wondering how the English language on the air in India might in fact be the central historical determinant of the formal dehiscence of the novel that we associate with the midcentury. If this is the case, then what Hosain calls “the silent gap” between English and Punjab (a gap Morse convincingly...

... Caroline Reitz shows us why the detective enjoys this allotropic nature. In the process she convincingly argues that the roots of the domestic English detective lie in fact in India, and that far hmbeing a figure for invisible panopti- cal power, he often enjoys a more spectacular status, providing...

...Zachary Samalin [email protected] Tanya Agathocleous , Disaffected: Emotion, Sedition, and Colonial Law in the Anglosphere ( Ithaca, NY : Cornell UP , 2021 ), pp. 234 , paper, $26.95 . Copyright © 2023 by Novel, Inc. 2023 In May 2022 the Supreme Court of India...

... the beginning of the nineteenth century, but makes a comeback in novels about the British in India in the period between 1830 and 1947, the period she has chosen to investigate. She asks why this displacement occurs and in what ways we are to under- stand its relocation to a colony. Her analysis...

... 14 ( Mar.-Apr . 2002 ): 5 –25. Armstrong , Nancy . Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel . Oxford: Oxford UP, 1987 . Armstrong , Paul B. “Reading India: E. M. Forster and the Politics of Interpretation.” Twentieth-Century Literature 38.4 ( 1992...

...: Reflections on the Works of Nikolai Leskov.” Illuminations . Ed. Arendt Hannah. Trans. Harry Zohn. New York: Schocken, 1968 . 83 -109. Birdwood , George C. M. The Industrial Arts of India . 1880. London: Chapman and Hall, 1884 . Burgin , G. B. “How Women Writers Work.” Idler 10 . 2...

... thought generated between India and the United States. In Un/common Cultures (2010), Kamala Visweswaran critiques twentieth-century anthropological and sociological discourses that create imperial epistemologies of common and uncommon cultures, having recourse to figures like Du Bois and B. R. Ambedkar...

... York : HarperCollins , 2008 . Mahajan Karan . “ Karan Mahajan on the Inner Lives of Terrorists and Victims in Today’s India .” Interview by Majumdar Megha . Electric Literature 22 Mar . 2006 < https://electricliterature.com/karan-mahajan-on-the-inner-lives-of-terrorists...