Meet the Author: Bansari Mitra

Join us for the next “Meet Your Author” event at Lovestruck Books! This event series is your chance to connect with amazing authors, shop their books directly, and get your copies personally signed.

Bansari Mitra  is joining us on Sunday, March 22 to highlight her book about the qualities and transformation of Gothic to Victorian to Contemporary novel genres. 

Purchase Bansari’s  book when you arrive at the store or choose to pre-purchase the book at Eventbrite checkout. 

Drop in anytime between 1-3  pm grab your book, get it signed, chat with the author, and stroll through the book store. This is the perfect chance to fall in love with a new favorite author! 

Signing event entry is free but we ask that you please RSVP on eventbrite to attend. 

ACCESSIBILITY

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Guests who would benefit from any additional assistance are encouraged to reach out in advance — just email us at [email protected]. We're more than happy to make arrangements to ensure you feel comfortable and supported.

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BOOK PICKUP POLICY

If you purchased a book with your event ticket but can’t make it to the event—and don’t request a refund—we’ll happily hold your book for pickup for up to 30 days after the event date.

We’ll be in touch via the email you provided at checkout to help coordinate pickup. After 30 days, if we haven’t heard from you or made other arrangements, we’ll consider the book abandoned property and may donate it or return it to inventory so it can find a new home.

Thanks so much for your understanding and for supporting our events—we love doing this with you!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Bansari Mitra received her Ph.D. in English from State University of New York at Buffalo. She

is a Writing Tutor in Wentworth Institute of Tech, Boston. She has published a book on the

migration of western folktales to the East, The Renovation of Folktales by Five Modern Bengali Writers and articles on films in Asian Cinema and Kinema. She has taught in many universities in Louisiana, Maryland, Georgia and New York and she has been a research fellow in Trinity College Dublin and Birkbeck College, London.

ABOUT GHOSTS FROM THE PAST

This book focuses on genre studies and examines Gothic’s outstanding characteristics like loose plot, hidden crimes and ruined settings. Anne Bronte redefines Gothic by writing in a fragmentary way. This storytelling is further examined in Jane Eyre.  The story resists closure because Jane cannot establish peace with the characters that haunt her.  The adage “no happy woman writes” makes us reflect on the unhappy life of Mary Shelley which led her to write her “monstrous” novel, Frankenstein.  Instead of literary criticism that stems from Romantic and feminist sensibilities, there is a new interpretation of the non-western character, Safie, whose story is a variation from the other tales of catastrophes.

Broad categories fail to define genres, like Eliade and Devi’s works, Bengal Nights and Na Hanyate.  We reexamine the limitations of various forms of life-writing like memoirs and autobiographies and the encounters and clashes between eastern and western cultures.  We also examine the form of Gothic and swashbucklers, two popular, successful types of film. Western and eastern cultures differ, especially when settings and plots are reinvented to create blockbusters, and themes are revised to suit the palates of eastern audiences.  The last essay focuses on transformations of Gothic from Victorian to contemporary times. In a wide assortment of mysteries, the common themes of a missing woman and misinterpretations of the detective heroine show how settings of Gothic have changed from 18th to 21st Century.

Bicentenaries of Shelley and Brontes were recently celebrated, discussing their impact on contemporary times, so it is time to look at their novels in a new way.

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