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Author Bhattacharya, Baidik, 1975- author.

Title Colonialism, world literature, and the making of the modern culture of letters / Baidik Bhattacharya, Center for the Study of Developing Societies
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2024

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Description 1 online resource (pages cm.)
Summary "This book offers an account of how the modern idea of the literary emerged, through the colonial archives. Situated at the cusp of postcolonialism and world literature, it offers a multilingual, multicultural, and comparative account of how literature became one of the most powerful cultural expressions of modernity"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Literature, Modern -- 18th century -- History and criticism
Colonies.
colonies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781009422635
1009422634