Inveterate Walkers, Literary Minds

Auteur

Anandarup Biswas is an Associate Professor in English literary studies in Shibpur Dinobundhoo College, affiliated to the University of Calcutta. He is also a guest faculty in the Department of English, Presidency University, Kolkata. His doctoral research on the Australian writer Eric Rolls falls under the domain of environmental humanities. His essay titled "Bengal's Encounter with the Himalaya: Mountaineering Beyond Conquest" has found a place in the anthology, The Mountain and the Politics of Representation, edited by Jenny and Martin Hall (2023). He has also published essays on environmental humanities, travel writing and Sherpa autobiographies.

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Inveterate Walkers, Literary Minds makes visible the writings of Bengal's travellers (mostly pilgrims) who went, on foot, into Himalayan trails from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. It traces the emergent subjectivities of the men and women who wrote both ordinary travel accounts and reflective self-writing.

Résumé
Inveterate Walkers, Literary Minds makes visible the writings of Bengal's travellers (mostly pilgrims) who went, on foot, into Himalayan trails from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. It traces the emergent subjectivities of the men and women who wrote both ordinary travel accounts and reflective self-writing.

Contenu

Foreword by Bill Ashcroft

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1: Early Pilgrims: Emergence of the Self-absorbed Walker

Chapter 2: The Urge to Surrender: Spiritualising and Aestheticising the Himalaya

Chapter 3: The Woman Traveller as Writer: Forging Selfhoods Through Himalayan Journeys

Works cited

Index