Renaissance Reborn : In Search of a Historical Paradigm
Contents: 1. Metaphor, Metamorphosis and Knowledge in the Renaissance by Gian Mario Anselmi. 2. Relating to the Past: The Differing Attitudes of Dante and Petrarch by Maria Cecila Bertolani. 3. Renaissance and Reformation by Amlan Das Gupta. 4. The Ethical Dimension of Humanistic Philology by Andrea Severi. 5. The Rustle of History: Nationalism and the Vernacular in the French Renaissance by Niranjan Goswami. 6. The Paradigm of the Renaissance as Viewed in Nineteenth-century France by Sudesna Chakrabarti. 7. Humanism and Orientalism: Life after Rebirth by Sukanta Chaudhuri. 8. Some Distinctive Features of the Bengal Renaissance by Alok Ray. 9. Rehearsing the Renaissance: Some Symptomatic Texts from Nineteenth-century Bengal by Swapan Chakravorty. 10. Renaissance in Bengal: A Colonial Reincarnation by Swapan Majumdar. 11 The Bengali Language: A Colonial Renaissance by Biswajit Ray. 12. Women, Rebirth and Reform in Nineteenth-century Bengal by Supriya Chaudhuri. 13. Science and the Renaissance: The Case of Bengal by Kunal Chattopadhyay.
The term Renaissance has been used to refer to various movements in cultural history originally in Europe, and later, by extension, to other civilizations. This book brings together a collection of articles by thirteen Italian and Indian scholars on the European and Indian renaissances. Between them they cover the work of major writers in Europe (Dante, Petrarch) and India (Bankim Chandra, Vidyasagar, Tagore); cultural and socio-historic movements like humanism, nationalism, the Reformation and Orientalism; and crucial social sectors like the growth of the vernaculars, the changing status of women and pursuit of science.
The term Renaissance has been used to refer to various movements in cultural history originally in Europe, and later, by extension, to other civilizations. This book brings together a collection of articles by thirteen Italian and Indian scholars on the European and Indian renaissances. Between them they cover the work of major writers in Europe (Dante, Petrarch) and India (Bankim Chandra, Vidyasagar, Tagore); cultural and socio-historic movements like humanism, nationalism, the Reformation and Orientalism; and crucial social sectors like the growth of the vernaculars, the changing status of women and pursuit of science.
