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Madly after the Muses: Bengali Poet Michael Madhusudan Datta and his Reception of the Graeco-Roman Classics - Classical Presences
Riddiford, Alexander (Barrister of the Inner Temple, England)
Madly after the Muses: Bengali Poet Michael Madhusudan Datta and his Reception of the Graeco-Roman Classics - Classical Presences
Riddiford, Alexander (Barrister of the Inner Temple, England)
This volume examines the use of Graeco-Roman samplings in the Bengali works of Michael Madhusudan Datta (1824-1873). Riddiford introduces new texts and contexts to the fields of classical reception and postcolonial scholarship, offering a surprising early chapter in the story of the dissemination and reception of the Graeco-Roman classics in India.
296 pages, 3 in-text illustrations
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | March 14, 2013 |
ISBN13 | 9780199699735 |
Publishers | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 304 |
Dimensions | 146 × 223 × 22 mm · 500 g |