Arts, Literature and Humanities

Virginia Woolf’s fourth novel, Mrs Dalloway, marks an important stage in her development as a writer. In this novel she finally departs from the fo...

Moll Flanders was one of the first social novels to be published in English and draws heavily on Defoe's experience of the topography and social co...

“One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.” The life of Gregor Sam...

Measure for Measure is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604. Originally published in the First Folio of 162...

Mansfield Park is a unique novel in its moral design, with a heroine remarkably different from the author’s previous creations. This young lady, Mi...

Man and Superman, a four-Act drama, was written in 1903 as a response to those who had questioned Shaw as to why he had never written a play based ...

America is a country of immense diversity, home to people from heterogeneous ethnic, religious and social backgrounds. Over the years, American soc...

The Tragedy of Macbeth, or Macbeth, is one of his Shakespeare's shorter tragedies, and was probably written between 1599–1606, and is thought to ha...

Love’s Labour’s Lost, in five-acts, was written sometime between 1588 and 1597, and published in a quarto edition in 1598, with a title page sugges...

Lord Jim is a work of Joseph Conard’s maturity as a writer, and is one of the book which established him as a master storyteller and a great noveli...

Louisa M. Alcoa, (29th November, 1832, Germantown, 6th March, 1888, Pennsylvania Boston, Massachusetts), Was an American novelist, short story writ...

Literary Criticism: An MCQ Based Study Guide offers an exhaustive coverage of Literary Criticism as a discipline. Beginning with the Classical Crit...

King Lear is one of Shakespeare's most famous tragedies and was believed to have been written be-tween 1605-1606, and was based on a legend of the ...

Jude the Obscure is a haunting love story and a raging indictment of Victorian society. In addition to its literary qualities, the novel is a rich ...

Journey to the Centre of the Earth published in 1864 in French as Voyage au centre de la Terre is the second book in Verne's popular science-fictio...

Joseph Andrews is Fielding's first novel, and although directed against Samuel Richardson's Pamela which was a great success, it is far from being ...

Jane Eyre remains one of the most widely read of English Classics. In this novel, Charlotte Bronte invented a romantic tale of passion and thrill a...

In the modern or postmodern world, James Joyce is not only a stupendous writer but also a definer of the genre. His works are considered essential ...

Jacob Flanders is flawed, but also quite a brilliant man. An embodiment of solitude, Jacob is unable to concoct his affinity in life for traditions...

Scott’s most beloved and exciting adventure, Ivanhoe is a vivid recreation of Norman-Saxon conflict in 12th century England. Framing a royal myth o...

The dynamic field of graphic narratives is a burgeoning area of academic research and is being subjected to sustained analysis in academia worldwid...

Indian English Literature, a comprehensive anthology, presents perceptive chapters on the major Indian English writers, including novelists, dramat...

Identity and Gender in Postcolonial Multiculturalism covers the complexities of identity and gender in contemporary postcolonial British society, w...

Henry IV, Part One is a history play, believed to have been written no later than 1597. It is the second play in Shakespeare's tetralogy dealing wi...

Heart of Darkness is the finest of all Conrad's tales, showing him at the height of his powers as a writer of great vividness, intensity, and sophi...

Harold Pinter, a Nobel Prize-winning playwright, was renowned for voicing the fears, deformed sense of perception and anxiety that surfaced due to ...

“Let us strike the keynote, Coketown, before pursuing our tune... It was a town of machines and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents o...

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, usually shortened to just Hamlet, was written by Shakespeare sometime between 1599–1602. It is arguably o...

Gulliver's Travels, first published in 1726, was an immediate success and was read 'from the Cabinet - council to the Nursery' (Gay). It continues ...

The book combines general rules of English language for common users as well as complex issues for expert philologists. It contains the chief pecul...

Great Expectations is a superbly constructed novel of spellbinding mystery and is full of comic and tragic twists. It is generally considered to be...

Translation is an act of freedom from linguistic and cultural hegemony. In the post-colonial time, the projection of cultural voice in translation ...

The growing trend of inter-cultural migration brought by global market forces has infused fresh interest among people across the world in learning ...

Flowing Genre: Travelogues on the Ganga and the Narmada explores the canonicity of the hitherto minor genre of literature—travelogues—the establish...

The book examines contemporary Indian women writers working in the English language, namely Anita Nair, Sreemoyee Piu Kundu, and Meena Kandasamy, a...

One of the most acclaimed Russian works of literature, Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev is a philosophical fiction cutting across a wide-ranging s...

The story revolves around young and amorous but capricious Bathsheba Everdene and her enviable problem of coping with her three suitors simultaneou...

The recent academic focus on popular culture has prompted extensive research into terms like ‘popular’ and ‘mainstream’. Essays on the Popular in C...

The book presents the history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the close of the Victorian Era. It aims to create in every student th...

The book introduces some of the major areas that students and teachers of English in India should understand in order to follow a scientific approa...

NET is one of the most difficult examinations, more so because the syllabus is very vast and only a few lucky ones can cross the threshold, especia...

Emma was the last novel which Jane Austen lived to see through the press and is perhaps her most accomplished and representative work, happily comb...

Emerging Trends in the New Historical Fiction of India aims to unravel the intricacies and nuances of the literary movement by examining key works ...

The book explores the study of literature and environment. It analyses the relationship between human life and nature. It critiques the way we repr...

Ours is an age of criticism. Literary and critical theories have occupied a prominent place in our academic discipline. The twentieth century liter...

A manager of a stationary shop with a meagre salary, Ganpat has tried his best to keep his wife, Gomati, and his two children, Ganesh and Geeta, ha...

What do some of the world’s leading brands within design, technology and business industries have in common? They adapt and use the design thinkin...

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. In the heart ...