• ISBN13: 9788126928682
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: May 20, 2019
• Pages: 182
• Original Price: INR 595.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 380 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): General

The book is a collection of articles on American poetry, plays, and novels, widely ranging from the early masters such as Cooper, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hawthorne, and O’Neill to the moderns/post-moderns. The choice and selection of the articles is made, keeping the fact in view that they tend to be syllabus-oriented, and also that they induce among the students the habit of going to the primary source and look at a work of art from their own point of view, so as to develop their own critical approach to literature. The book will be useful for the students and teachers of English literature and American literature, and researchers in these fields.

Dr. R.K.. Sharma is a former Reader, Head, in the Dept. of English at the Regional Centre, Rewari of M.D. University, Rohtak. His publications are: (i) Isolation and Protest: A Study of J.P. Donleavy’s Fiction, New Jersey: Humanities Press, USA. It has its Indian edition, published by Ajanta Books International, Delhi; (ii) Contemporary Black Humour American Novels: From Nathanael West to Thomas Berger, Ajanta Books International, Delhi; (iii) Modern American Literature (ed.), S.S. Publishers, Delhi; and (iv) Renaissance Humanism and Christopher Marlowe: A Study of His Plays, Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd., New Delhi. He is currently working on a project: The Renaissance Theatre and the Dialectic of Isolation and Beyond.

• Preface
• 1. James Fenimore Cooper’s The Crater: ‘A Parable of America’
• 2. Problems of Morality in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter
• 3. The Great Gatsby: A Critique of the American Dream of Success
• 4. Concept of Freedom: Henry James’ The Portrait of a Lady
• 5. Existential Concerns in Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape
• 6. Ontology in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury
• 7. Transcendence as Vision: A Study of Bernard Malamud’s The Assistant
• 8. Treatment of Dream in Arthur Miller’s All My Sons and Death of a Salesman
• 9. Feminist Concerns in Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire
• 10. Anti-War American Novels
• 11. Contemporary Black Humour American Novels: From Nathanael West to Thomas Berger
• 12. Robert Frost’s ‘Birches’
• An Appraisal
• 13. The Beat Generation and James Patrick Donleavy
• 14. Humanism in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath
• 15. Saul Bellow’s The Dean’s December: ‘Self as rebel’
• Index