• ISBN13: 9788126902071
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: June 21, 2003
• Pages: 360
• Original Price: INR 595.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 380 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): General

Studies in Fiction deals with George Orwell, John Steinbeck, Thomas Love Peacock, Anita Desai, Jerome David Salinger, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, W.M. Thackeray, George Eliot, Walker Percy and George Meredith in addition to a number of other novelists. The Chapters based on these novelists thoroughly and conclusively analyse and summarise only those aspects which form the central part of the modern criticism. Novels chosen for discussion, too, are those which usually have a scholarly tradition of criticism. The Early as well as the Late Victorian Fiction has been re-interpreted in the light of Uniformitarianism, Naturalism Newtorism and Darwinism.

S.D. Sharma, Ph.D., D.Litt., is Professor of English and Head, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, G.B. Pant University, Pantnagar (India). A late convert to Linguistics and Language, Professor Sharma is regarded as the father of Scientific and Technical Writing and the Indianisation of English and Phonetics. An author of more than 15 scholarly books and over a hundred research papers, Professor Sharma has also received academic awards and honours even from abroad. Professor Sharma has also been a U.G.C. Visiting Fellow.

• 1. Marionette and Masquerade : Dehumanization in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm
• 2. John Steinbeck : Tortilla Flat and The Grapes of Wrath
• 3. Thomas Love Peacock : Headlong Hall, Melincourt, Crotchet Castle and Gryll Grange
• 4. Anita Desai : Feminine Sensibility in Cry the Peacock, Voices in the City, Bye-Bye Black Bird, Where Shall We Go This Summer? and Other Shorter Fiction
• 5. Jerome David Salinger : The Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Jooey
• 6. Thomas Hardy : Far From the Madding Crowd, Cosmic Consciousness and Immanent Will
• 7. Scientific Impact on Dickensian School of Novelists
• Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, W.M. Thackeray and George Eliot
• 8. Walker Percy : Christianity and Humanism and Women Perspectives in The Second Coming, The Moviegoer, The Last Gentleman, The Lancelot and Love in the Ruins
• 9 Science and Late Victorian Fiction
• 10. Darwinism in the Novels of George Meredith and Thomas Hardy