Remapping Persian Literary History, 1700-1900

Kevin L. Schwartz (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2022
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781474450850 (ISBN)

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Integrating forgotten tales of literary communities across Iran, Afghanistan and South Asia – at a time when Islamic empires were fracturing and new state formations were emerging – this book offers a more global understanding of Persian literary culture in the 18th and 19th centuries. It challenges the manner in which Iranian nationalism has infilitrated Persian literary history writing and recovers the multi-regional breadth and vibrancy of a global lingua franca connecting peoples and places across Islamic Eurasia.
Focusing on 3 case studies (18th-century Isfahan, a small court in South India and the literary climate of the Anglo-Afghan war), it reveals the literary and cultural ties that bound this world together as well as some of the trends that broke it apart.

Kevin L. Schwartz is a research fellow at the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, specialising in the literary history and culture of Iran and the Persianate world. He was previously a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC and Distinguished Visiting Professor (Middle East Chair) at the US Naval Academy.

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Note on Transliteration and Translation

List of Maps, Figures and Illustrations

Contents

Introduction

‘Literary Return’ as Literary Nationalism

Cosmopolitanism, Canon, Community

Oragnisation of the Study

Chapter 1. Remembering Iran, Forgetting the Persianate: Persian Literary Historiography of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

‘Literary Return’ and the ‘Indian Style’

Iranian Story

Afghan Legacy

The Rise of the Durrani State and Bidilism

An ‘Afghan Literary Return’?

South Asian Stagnation

The ‘New Munshi’ and Transition to English

B. Language Competition and the Rise of Urdu

　

Chapter 2. Reformation and Reconstruction of Poetic Networks, Isfahan ca. 1722-1801

Disruptions and Continuities

Connections and Networks

Patronage and Formation

Conclusion

Chapter 3. A Market for the Masters, Afghanistan ca. 1839-1842

Preparing for Battle

Recounting the War: The War Ballad of ‘Ghulami’ and Oral Culture

A Bazgashtian Tale? The Book of Akbar of Hamid Allah Kashmiri

Propaganda and Patronage: The Victory Book of Kabul by Qasim Ali

The War-Ballad Marketplace

Conclusion

Chapter 4. Debating Poetry on the Edge of the Persianate World, Arcot ca. 1850

Pivot of Persian: The Life and Times of Muhammad Ghaws Khan ‘Aʿzam’

Mapping Networks

Writing Rivalry

Speaking for Persian

Conclusion

Conclusion

Back Matter

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	16.08.2020
Reihe/Serie	Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World
Zusatzinfo	12 black and white illustrations, 1 black and white table
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9781474450850 / 9781474450850
Zustand	Neuware