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Trans-imperial Feminism in England and India: Catherine Dickens, Marie Corelli, and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain

Trans-imperial Feminism in England and India: Catherine Dickens, Marie Corelli, and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Author: Kellie Holzer
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ISBN-10: 1666930067
ISBN-13: 9781666930061
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<i>Trans-imperial Feminism in England and India: Catherine Dickens, Marie Corelli, and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain</i> demonstrates the trans-imperial dimensions of gender-based oppression and traces the emergence of trans-imperial feminist consciousness between England and India. The book identifies a &ldquo;new constellation&rdquo; for literary studies that links the demise of Charles and Catherine Dickens&rsquo;s marriage in the midst of an imperial crisis, the 1857 Sepoy Rebellion; Marie Corelli&rsquo;s use of elements of the Dickens Scandal in her 1896 novel <i>The Murder of Delicia</i>; and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain&rsquo;s 1922 translation and critical adaptation of Corelli&rsquo;s novel, <i>Delicia Hatya</i>. Further, the book also offers a richly contextualized reading of Hossain&rsquo;s 1924 New Woman novel <i>Padmarag </i>to demonstrate the culmination of trans-imperial feminist consciousness. Kellie Holzer coins the term &ldquo;trans-imperial feminism&rdquo; to denote a dispersed feminist formation of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries characterized by ambivalent agency, asymmetry, &ldquo;feminist snaps&rdquo; that resound across empire, and partisanship forged through storytelling. Combining the methods of area studies and critical comparativism, Holzer&rsquo;s analysis demonstrates how the trans-imperial circulation and citation of women&rsquo;s stories, both lived and fictional, rescripts women&rsquo;s lives and imagines new feminist constituencies. Ultimately, Holzer suggests that such trans-imperial aesthetic pairings have the potential to revivify Victorian Studies.