Ankhi Mukherjee: 2 books
What Is a Classic?
Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
What Is a Classic? revisits the famous question posed by critics from Sainte-Beuve and T. S. Eliot to J. M. Coetzee to ask how classics emanate from postcolonial histories and societies. Exploring definitive trends in twentieth- and twenty-first century English and Anglophone literature, Ankhi Mukherjee...
Aesthetic Hysteria
The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Aesthetic Hysteria is a deconstructive psychoanalytic study of hysteria, using literary texts to foreground a telling encounter between two growing discourses within English studies: that of emotion/affect and trauma studies. It brings together several academic foci - the history of medicine, aesthetic...