• ISBN13: 9788126933389
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: July 28, 2022
• Pages: 358
• Original Price: INR 1195.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 510 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Feminism is a rapidly developing critical ideology of great promise. It has evolved into a philosophy encompassing diverse fields of human activity in society. The feminist theory with its varied articulations and ramifications in a literary context constitutes a significant segment for critical endeavour. The present anthology provides a broad spectrum on Feminist English Literature with in-depth analysis of the works of Kamala Das, Kamala Markandaya, Antia Desai, Rama Mehta, Shashi Deshpande, Uma Vasudevan, Githa Hariharan, Nina Sibal, Arundhati Roy, Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Margaret Atwood, Jean Rhys, Ellen Glasgow, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Toni Morrison, and others. The volume also contains articles on feminist theory, the emerging self of women in Indian English Fiction, and general appraisal of women novelists with regard to their portrayal of the woman’s question.

Dr. Manmohan K. Bhatnagar is Professor, Department of English, M.D. University, Rohtak (Haryana), India. A distinguished scholar and a veteran teacher of more than two decades’ standing, he has been Chairman, Department of English, M.D. University, Rohtak and also Chairman, State Inter-University Common Syllabi Committee in English of Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra and M.D. University, Rohtak. Having been selected for the prestigious Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship, Professor Bhatnagar has been a U.G.C.-empanelled Resource Person and part of the Guest Faculty at a number of U.G.C-sponsored Refresher Courses for College Lecturers. He has also chaired individual sessions at National Seminars. He has been a U.G.C. Fellow at Panjab University, Chandigarh and a U.G.C. Research Associate at University of Pune, Pune. Currently, he is engaged in working as Principal Investigator in a Major U.G.C. Project on Indian English Fiction. Professor Bhatnagar’s publications include, besides a number of research articles in prestigious journals in India and abroad, Political Consciousness in Indian English Writing, Perspectives and The Fiction of Nayantara Sahgal. His areas of interest include Literary Theory, Comparative Literature, Commonwealth and Indian English Literature, and Third World Fiction.

• Preface
• List of Contributors
• 1. Feminist English Literature
• An Introduction
• M.K. Bhatnagar
• 2. Kamala Das
• Need for Re-Assessment
• Sharad Rajimwale
• 3. The Unconscious Desire and its Fulfilment in Kamala Markandaya’s A Silence of Desire
• M. Rajeshwar
• 4. Images of Alienation
• A Study of Anita Desai’s Novels
• S.P. Swain
• 5. Inside the Haveli
• The Silent Transformation
• A.G. Khan
• 6. Roots and Shadows
• A Feminist Study
• S.P. Swain
• 7. Articulation of the Feminine Voice: Jaya in Shashi Deshpande’s That Long Silence
• S.P. Swain
• 8. Shreya of Sonagarh
• A Sexist Approach
• S.P. Swain
• 9. The Image of Woman in Uma Vasudevan’s The Song of Anasuya
• A Study
• Mallikarjun Patil
• 10. Yatra
• A Journey Unto Self Accomplishment
• A.G. Khan
• 11. The God of Small Things
• A Feminist Analysis
• Bimaljit Saini
• 12. Fictional Treatment of the Neurotic Phenomenon
• Indian Women Novelists in English and
• Psychoanalysis
• M. Rajeshwar
• 13. For a Story of My Own
• The Female Quest for Identity: A Global Perspective
• Rama Kundu
• 14. Shobha De’s Socialite Evenings
• A Feminist Study
• S.P. Swain
• 15. Elizabeth Bennet, Jane Austen’s Feminist Heroine
• Sharad Rajimwale
• 16. The Concept of Perfect Man in Between the Acts of Virginia Woolf
• Najma Mahmood
• 17. Atwood’s ‘I’ and ‘Thou’
• Padma Srinivasan
• 18. The Feminine Predicament in Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman
• F.A. Inamdar
• 19. A Doll’s House
• A Reassessment
• Najma Mahmood
• 20. Ellen Glasgow’s The Miller of Old Church
• A Vision of a Changing Woman
• Surekha Dangwal
• 21. Female Characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Attia Abid
• 22. A Critique of Toni Morrison’s Feminism
• Shruti Das
• 23. The Alienated Self
• A Study of Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day
• S.P. Swain
• 24. T.S. Eliot and Hinduism
• Surekha Dangwal
• 25. Superstition and Psyche in Anita Desai’s Cry, The Peacock
• M. Rajeshwar
• 26. Where Shall We Go This Summer?
• Sita’s Incarcerated Self
• S.P. Swain
• 27. Tradition and Deviation
• A Study of Anita Desai’s Novels
• S.P. Swain
• 28. “Feminism Jettisoned in Pinter’s Plays”
• Sanjay Kumar
• 29. Nargis Dalal
• The Woman Writer
• Mallikarjun Patil
• 30. Concept of Woman in Nectar in a Sieve
• Vibha Jain
• 31. The Novels of Tony Morrison
• A Feminist Study
• S.P. Swain and A. Naik