• ISBN13: 9788126910809
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: May 6, 2018
• Pages: 248
• Original Price: INR 795.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 416 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): General

During its early history, America was a group of British colonies on the eastern coast of the present-day United States. Its literary tradition, therefore, began as closely linked to the broader tradition of English literature. However, the unique American characteristics and the breadth of its production are now considered a separate identity. The present work Studies in American Literature is like an anthology on seminal works in American literature. It presents a chronological account of American literature right from the beginning to the present day. The book includes articles on Franklin’s Autobiography, Emerson’s Essays, Thoreau’s Walden, and the novels of Hawthorne, Stowe, Melville, Twain, James, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Bellow, Morrison and Amy Tan. Besides, there are articles on the poetry of Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, Stevens, Cummings, Hughes, Ginsberg and Plath. In addition, some major African-American writings have also been analysed to give the book a wider coverage. The book will be highly useful to the students and teachers of American literature and researchers in this field.

Mallikarjun Patil is a novelist, short-story writer, translator and critic. A Reader in English, Karnatak University, Dharwad, he is a distinguished academician. He has written numerous articles and two works on Thomas Hardy, apart from Studies in American Literature, and British Literature. He has written a novel When the Ground Shakes Beneath, which has been translated into Kannada, Punjabi and Hindi. His A Don in the Jungle is a political novel on the forest brigand, Veerappan. He has translated Bajranga Korde’s English work Anna Bhau Sathe into Kannada for Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi. He writes in Kannada as well. His two Kannada novels Raita Kallappana Aatmahatye and Bhukampa have established his reputation as an ambitious writer. In Shakespeare’s England… is a travel account of his education at Oxford and his visit to various places in England. Its Kannada version entitled, Shakespearana Ingandinalli… has seen five editions so far.

• Preface
• Introduction
• 1. Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography
• 2. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Thoughts with Reference to Self-Reliance
• 3. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter: A Chronicle of Puritan Life
• 4. H.D. Thoreau’s Walden: A Way of Life
• 5. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Depiction of “Life Among the Lowly” in Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• 6. Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of an American Slave
• 7. Democratic Life in Walt Whitman’s Poetry
• 8. Herman Melville’s Moby Dick
• 9. Emily Dickinson as a Mystic Poet
• 10. Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn ‘as a Satire on Slavery’
• 11. Psychological Realism in Henry James’s The American
• 12. Theodore Dreiser’s The American Tragedy
• 13. Robert Frost’s Poetry as a Meditation
• 14. Wallace Stevens’s Poetry: A Note
• 15. Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape: As a Critique of American Capitalism
• 16. Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman: A Critique of American Life
• 17. Edward Albee’s Two Absurd Plays
• 18. E.E. Cummings’s Poetry
• 19. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
• 20. William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury as a Portrayal of Abnormal Psychology
• 21. Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea: An Inspiration to the New Millennium
• 22. Langston Hughes’s Poetry
• 23. John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath
• 24. Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man as a Depiction of Identity Crisis
• 25. Saul Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King as Fantasy
• 26. Flannery O’ Conner’s Short Stories
• 27. An Understanding of Allen Ginsberg’s Poetry
• 28. Sylvia Plath’s Poetry and Fiction
• 29. Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club as a Work of Magic Realism
• 30. The “Ghost of the Past” in Toni Morrison’s Beloved