Hindi publishing in colonial Lucknow : gender, genre, and visuality in the creation of a literary 'canon' /

By:

Nijhawan, Shobna [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Oxford scholarship onlinePublisher: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2019Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)Content type:

text
still image

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780199095834 (ebook) :

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Additional physical formats: Print version :: No titleDDC classification:

070.509542 23

LOC classification:

Z286.L58

Online resources:

Oxford scholarship online

Summary: This volume centres on the literary activities emerging out of the north Indian publishing house Ganga Pustak Mala and its house periodical Sudha, a literary, social, political and illustrated monthly in the first half of the 20th century. Building on the defining work of Gérard Genette on paratexts as well as on scholarship on text-image relationships, this text charts the emergence and commercialisation as well as nationalisation of Hindi literary production in the city of Lucknow.

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This edition previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This volume centres on the literary activities emerging out of the north Indian publishing house Ganga Pustak Mala and its house periodical Sudha, a literary, social, political and illustrated monthly in the first half of the 20th century. Building on the defining work of Gérard Genette on paratexts as well as on scholarship on text-image relationships, this text charts the emergence and commercialisation as well as nationalisation of Hindi literary production in the city of Lucknow.

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