| Description |
1 online resource (181 pages) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Translation, Transliteration, Orthography, and Bengali Calendar -- 1 Political and Social Condition of Late Colonial India -- PROLEGOMENA -- 2 Sharatchandra's Childhood and Early Youth -- SHARATCHANDRA'S PARENTS: MATILAL AND BHUBANMOHINI CHATTOPADHYAY -- SHARAT'S PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL MAKEUP -- 3 The Making of a Literary Career The Beginnings -- 4 Sharatchandra in Rangoon A Nonresident Nobody from Bengal -- LOW LIFE IN RANGOON: A SEASON IN HELL7 -- 5 Literary Career during Rangoon Days -- 6 Return of the Prodigal Son -- BAJE SHIBPUR -- PANITRAS: SHARAT THE GLOWING LITERARY MOON -- CALCUTTA: END OF JOURNEY -- 7 Treasures of the Invincible Wordsmith [Aparājeya Kathāśilpī] -- PALLĪSAMĀJ -- ARAKṢAṆĪYĀ -- DENĀ-PĀONĀ -- "BAḌADIDI" -- DEBDĀS -- CARITRAHĪN -- GṚHADĀHA -- ŚRĪKĀNTA -- ŚEṢ PRAŚNA -- 8 Sharatchandra's Caste and Gender Consciousness -- SHARATCHANDRA'S MALE AND FEMALE CHARACTERS -- SHARAT'S CASTE CONSCIOUSNESS -- 9 Bankimchandra-Rabindranath- Sharatchandra -- BANKIMCHANDRA -- RABINDRANATH -- RABINDRANATH VERSUS SHARATCHANDRA: AN EPISODE OF HUMANE AND ELEGANT MISUNDERSTANDING -- 10 Sharatchandra's Political Ideas and Activities -- SHARATCHANDRA'S PATHER DĀBĪ -- 11 Sharatchandra's Enduring Popularity -- 12 Sharatchandra and Jean-Jacques Rousseau A Tour de Force -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- About the Author |
| Summary |
The Life of Sharatchandra Chatopadhyay presents a historical critical assessment of the novelist's upbringing and the experiences that informed his work. The author exposes Sharatchandra's innate conservative worldview and his romantic platonic concept of human sexuality that informs all his love stories |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Caṭṭopādhyāya, Śaratcandra, 1876-1938.
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| SUBJECT |
Caṭṭopādhyāya, Śaratcandra, 1876-1938 fast |
| Subject |
Authors, Bengali -- 20th century -- Biography
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Authors, Bengali
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781611475081 |
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1611475082 |
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