Sarbani Choudhury memorial lectures (Hardcover)

Reflecting on a range of key moments in historical locations and periods, the essays compiled in this volume were delivered as lectures in memory of Professor Sarbani Chaudhury between 2018 and 2023. The essays by Professor Supriya Chaudhuri, Professor Amlan Dasgupta and Professor Swapan Chakravorty focus on Shakespeare and Milton by re-examining their works through later influential theorists and producing compellingly nuanced accounts of their continuing presence across literary time-spaces. Through extensive archival and historical research,. Professor Anustup Basu's essay highlighting the figures of Raminohun and Bankimchandra, analyses the formation of a national consciousness, one continually shaped by colonial ideologies. Dr Swati Moitra's essay employs a close investigative reading of a canonical poem by Indian English poet Toru Dutt, bringing to bear upon it new scholarships of materialities and plant humanities.