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Exploring Emotional History: Gender, Mentality and Literature in the Indian Awakening
Exploring Emotional History Gender Mentality and Literature in the Indian Awakening Author:Rajat Kanta Ray This thought-provoking book examines emotional history, an under-explored field of study that lies at the intersection of psychoanalysis, intellectual history, literature and gender studies. Using the Bengal Renaissance and the Indian Awakening of the late 19th and early 20th centuries as his canvas, the author paints a fascinating portrait of a... more » society in emotional flux. Using contemporary poetry and fiction, this book attempts to piece together an elusive emotional history in a unique study that will appeal to the general reader and specialist alike. This paperback edition has a new preface and two appendices, including a little-known essay by the late Prof. Ashin Das Gupta.« less