{"id":19,"date":"2014-03-04T18:51:04","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T18:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/pjoshi\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2025-08-29T16:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T16:50:11","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/pjoshi\/research-2\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Publications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=9_HVMUkAAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao&amp;gmla=AJsN-F56per_i7eB-RokKQJLXnawPle5s2YkQCzfsvMcyTXXWGnYvUVXBcsohIUk257V2sinqyDcqEoC0J5FE4gJoklXx3MTX8VpKaq-qlkzZmelwLfvop8&amp;sciund=13144525672460245418&amp;scilu=&amp;scisig=AMstHGQAAAAAW84HCPNF3odQeUQaHyKjBkWp7kcyTed7&amp;gmla=AJsN-F7OplURG-olyaCdeFMRIhKtDvf_V63WA9gbWTWBbCUyGaLSB4Y7SCf3uqDzfEINu2ZfAWBPdxITE7LEzI2CzvJsqFNW9e21l7w_8agE0y1lAh6xJRU&amp;sciund=722956100098277798\">Google Scholar Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Recent essays:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;A Book History of the Novel&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>(<strong><em>NOVEL<\/em>, 2025<\/strong>): <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/pjoshi\/files\/2025\/08\/Joshi_Priya_Book_History_of_the_Novel_2025.pdf\">pdf<\/a><br \/>\n<h6><em>&#8220;A small handful of novels, comprising a very small handful of forms, from among an even smaller handful of places, has determined both the history and the theory of the novel even as the novel today enjoys a thriving global presence.\u00a0 Is a different theory of the novel possible that incorporates common readers and markets and, on this basis, understands the novel\u2019s geographical expansion in the twenty-first century?&#8221;<\/em><\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Archives in Action: Three Lessons from the Frontline&#8221;<\/strong><em>\u00a0<strong>(<\/strong><\/em><strong>Routledge 2025): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Research-Methods-in-Publishing-and-Book-Studies\/Noorda-Norrick-Ruhl\/p\/book\/9781032830711?srsltid=AfmBOoqO6qPKgHwZ1PJGyJxxubMIyGyx56ej9TNGd5mXxmtFnWVOtAi1\">link<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<h6><em><em>&#8220;Archives are made by those who construct them as well as by those who use them. The term\u2019s seventeenth-century arrival in the English language coincided with the rise of the British Empire. &#8230;There is much connecting the impulse behind political expansion and preserving records of that expansion.&#8221;<\/em><\/em><\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Can Literary Theory be Participatory?&#8221;<\/strong> <strong>(post-45, 2019):<\/strong> <strong><strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/post45.research.yale.edu\/2019\/09\/can-literary-theory-be-participatory\/\">link<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br \/>\n<h6><i>&#8220;In an unfolding moment when digital platforms enable open-source participatory opportunities for remixing and redeploying &#8220;culture,&#8221;\u00a0literary theory has remained obstinately analog\u2014unwilling to engage with\u00a0current practices of production and consumption.&#8221;<\/i><\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;The Novel as Commodity&#8221; (Cambridge, 2018): <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/pjoshi\/files\/2019\/05\/Joshi_Cambridge_Novel_as_Commodity_rot2.pdf\">pdf<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<h6><em><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 1em\">&#8220;To study the novel as a commodity includes studying its circulation in material and symbolic realms as an object that trades both in commercial and in cultural capital.&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Chetan Bhagat: \u00a0Remaking the Novel in India&#8221; (Cambridge, 2015): <a style=\"font-size: 1em\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/pjoshi\/files\/2019\/05\/Chetan_Bhagat_Remaking_Novel_in_India_2015.pdf\">pdf<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<h6><em>&#8220;A curious thing happened to the Indian novel in English on the way to the twenty-first century. \u00a0It stopped being a child of midnight. \u00a0It even stopped being a child.&#8221;<\/em><\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Genre Fiction in India&#8221; (Oxford, 2019): <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/pjoshi\/files\/2019\/05\/Joshi_Genre_Fiction_in_India.pdf\">pdf<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<h6><i>&#8220;In general, the story of genre fiction situates the Anglo American world in the\u00a0nineteenth and twentieth centuries as its <\/i>locus classicus<em>. \u00a0Applying this history to India obscures what is unusual about Indian publishing and the very recent\u2014 C21\u2014 proliferation of \u00a0genre fiction on the subcontinent.&#8221;<\/em><\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Globalizing Victorian Studies&#8221; <i>(Yearbook of\u00a0English<\/i> <em>Studies<\/em>, 2011): <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/pjoshi\/files\/2019\/05\/Joshi_Globalizing_Victorian_Studies.pdf\">pdf<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<h6><em>&#8220;Might &#8216;Victorian&#8217; be a term whose real use lies in <\/em>indexing<em> a set of preoccupations rather than confining those preoccupations to history and geography?&#8221;<\/em><\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Books:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i style=\"line-height: 1.5em\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/pjoshi\/files\/2014\/12\/cover_joshi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-187\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/pjoshi\/files\/2014\/12\/cover_joshi-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"cover_joshi\" width=\"85\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/pjoshi\/files\/2014\/12\/cover_joshi-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/pjoshi\/files\/2014\/12\/cover_joshi-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/pjoshi\/files\/2014\/12\/cover_joshi.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 85px) 100vw, 85px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bollywoods-India-Fantasy-Priya-Joshi\/dp\/0231169612\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1418222925&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=priya+joshi+bollywood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bollywood\u2019s India:\u00a0 A Public\u00a0 Fantasy<\/a><\/strong><\/i><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\"><br \/>\n(Columbia UP, 2015; ISBN: 978-0231169615)<br \/>\n\u2014Read the introduction,&#8221;Bollywood&#8217;s India,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/columbiaup\/docs\/joshi-bollywood-excerpt\">here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/pjoshi\/files\/2014\/03\/book_cover-e1394726931956.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-143 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/pjoshi\/files\/2014\/03\/book_cover-e1394726931956.gif\" alt=\"book_cover\" width=\"86\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Another-Country-Priya-Joshi\/dp\/0231125852\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1394037310&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=priya+joshi\">In Another Country:\u00a0 Colonialism, Culture and the English Novel in India<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/i>(Columbia UP, 2002; Oxford UP, 2003; ISBN: \u00a0978-0231125857)<br \/>\n\u2014Read the introduction, &#8220;The Poetical Economy of Consumption,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/pjoshi\/files\/2019\/05\/Joshi_P_IAC_ch1-copy_compressed.pdf\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/pjoshi\/files\/2014\/03\/1970s-and-its-legacies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-140\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/pjoshi\/files\/2014\/03\/1970s-and-its-legacies-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"1970s and its legacies\" width=\"91\" height=\"91\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/pjoshi\/files\/2014\/03\/1970s-and-its-legacies-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/pjoshi\/files\/2014\/03\/1970s-and-its-legacies-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/pjoshi\/files\/2014\/03\/1970s-and-its-legacies.jpg 1008w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 91px) 100vw, 91px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.routledge.com\/books\/details\/9780415836586\/\">The 1970s and its Legacies in India\u2019s Cinemas\u00a0<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/i>(co-edited; Routledge 2014;\u00a0ISBN: \u00a0978-0415836586)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Scholar Page Recent essays: &#8220;A Book History of the Novel&#8221;\u00a0(NOVEL, 2025): pdf &#8220;A small handful of novels, comprising a very small handful of forms, from among an even smaller handful of places, has determined both the history and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/pjoshi\/research-2\/research\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4255,"featured_media":0,"parent":91,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/pjoshi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/pjoshi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/pjoshi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/pjoshi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/pjoshi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/pjoshi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/pjoshi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/544"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/pjoshi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/pjoshi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}