Sambudha Sen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3892967 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sambudha Sen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sambudha |
| FAMILY NAME | Sen |
| SIGNATURE | SEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Shiv Nadar University |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-6216-4580 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
English studies in India
This essay argues that English departments in India have had two advantages that their counterparts in the west lack. First, the ability to speak and write correctly in English is understood as a social and professional resource and this prompts large numbers of college students to opt for an English major. Second, English literature has unfolded, historically among several highly developed literatures in our regional languages and this, in conju…
God Tussi Gay Ho
From Dispossession to Dissection
This essay responds to current scholarship as it explains the poor person's horror of dissection in the Victorian period as part of a long and complex process of deprivation. Working with the Anatomy Act (1832) and the New Poor Law (1834) as its backdrop, this essay examines three anxieties that were inseparable from the pauper's existence: the social embarrassment attendant on the loss of personal belongings, especially clothes; the humiliation …
Re‐visioning the Colonial City
This essay engages critically with the theoretical investment that the eminent Indian historian Ranajit Guha makes in his reading of an early prose classic of Bengali literature – Hootum Pyanchar Naksha . For Guha, Hootum exemplifies the contrasting ways in which time was experienced in metropolitan London and in colonial Calcutta. I, on the other hand, work with the reference that Hootum makes to the subtitle of Charles Dickens's first published…
Art of the Everyday
Reviewed by: Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel Sambudha Sen (bio) Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel, by Ruth Bernard Yeazell; pp. xxi + 252. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008, $35.00, £19.95. Ruth Yeazell's Art of the Everyday focuses primarily on the many connections between Dutch Golden Age painting and the realistic novel as it was to develop in France and in England. Yeazell…
Hogarth, Egan, Dickens, and the Making of an Urban Aesthetic
This essay tracks the making of an urban aesthetic as it developed from Hogarth's Industry and Idleness to Dickens's Oliver Twist. It argues that the urban aesthetic works in these texts to both contain and express the internal differences of the metropolis. It focuses on the ways in which the juxtapositional possibilities produced by the urban aesthetic affected such basic features of the novel as plot and characterization
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Hogarth, Egan, Dickens, and the Making of an Urban Aesthetic
This essay tracks the making of an urban aesthetic as it developed from Hogarth's Industry and Idleness to Dickens's Oliver Twist. It argues that the urban aesthetic works in these texts to both contain and express the internal differences of the metropolis. It focuses on the ways in which the juxtapositional possibilities produced by the urban aesthetic affected such basic features of the novel as plot and characterization
Art of the Everyday
Reviewed by: Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel Sambudha Sen (bio) Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel, by Ruth Bernard Yeazell; pp. xxi + 252. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008, $35.00, £19.95. Ruth Yeazell's Art of the Everyday focuses primarily on the many connections between Dutch Golden Age painting and the realistic novel as it was to develop in France and in England. Yeazell…
Re‐visioning the Colonial City
This essay engages critically with the theoretical investment that the eminent Indian historian Ranajit Guha makes in his reading of an early prose classic of Bengali literature – Hootum Pyanchar Naksha . For Guha, Hootum exemplifies the contrasting ways in which time was experienced in metropolitan London and in colonial Calcutta. I, on the other hand, work with the reference that Hootum makes to the subtitle of Charles Dickens's first published…
God Tussi Gay Ho
From Dispossession to Dissection
This essay responds to current scholarship as it explains the poor person's horror of dissection in the Victorian period as part of a long and complex process of deprivation. Working with the Anatomy Act (1832) and the New Poor Law (1834) as its backdrop, this essay examines three anxieties that were inseparable from the pauper's existence: the social embarrassment attendant on the loss of personal belongings, especially clothes; the humiliation …
English studies in India
This essay argues that English departments in India have had two advantages that their counterparts in the west lack. First, the ability to speak and write correctly in English is understood as a social and professional resource and this prompts large numbers of college students to opt for an English major. Second, English literature has unfolded, historically among several highly developed literatures in our regional languages and this, in conju…
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