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Introducing … My Book

Thrilled to announce the arrival of my monograph! Trans-imperial Feminism in England and India: Catherine Dickens, Marie Corelli, and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain traces the emergence of trans-imperial feminist consciousness between England and India. I identify a “new constellation” for literary studies linking the demise of Charles and Catherine Dickens’s marriage in the midst of the 1857 Sepoy Rebellion with Marie Corelli’s adaptation of the Dickens Scandal in her 1896 novel The Murder of Delicia and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s 1922 translation of Corelli’s novel, Delicia Hatya. There’s also an Interlude on the rise of the Bengali novel, followed by a chapter on Hossain’s 1924 New Woman novel Padmarag. My term “trans-imperial feminism” denotes a dispersed feminist formation of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries characterized by ambivalent agency, asymmetry, “feminist snaps” that resound across empire, and partisanship forged through storytelling. Ultimately, I argue that trans-imperial aesthetic pairings have the potential to revivify Victorian Studies.