English Literature

Edith Wharton s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, The Age of Innocence is a social satire, a bitter-sweet romance, bringing to life the grandeur ...

Clearly written and cogently argumented, the book, African American Literature: Politics of Marginal Space in the Fiction of Gloria Naylor, makes c...

Aesop’s Fables is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. The sto...

Growing up for some adolescents is a source of anxiety. They dread relinquishing childhood dependency and assuming responsibility. Sometimes they f...

The novel is based on a story told to George Eliot by her aunt Elizabeth Evans, a Methodist preacher, of a confession made to her by a girl in the ...

The work deals with the well-defined major phases in development in Eng?lish literature, deals also with the development of English criticism, crit...

A Tale of a Tub, Jonathan Swift’s first major and his most masterly work. It presents a satire of religious excess. When it was written, politics a...

The book, Subversion in the Fiction of Jean Rhys, Angela Carter and Michele Roberts: A Thematic and Stylistic Study, scrutinizes established premis...

The book A Study of R.K. Narayan’s Novels : A Cerebration of the Carnival attempts to answer the debate on the view that critical theory is a self-...

In India, after independence, a change felt by women was that many of the established norms of the society were intended to check or clip their gro...

One of the pioneering works in literary historiography, the book A Short History of English Literature combines in a remarkable manner the historic...

One of the pioneering works in literary historiography, the book A Short History of English Literature combines in a remarkable manner the historic...

One of the pioneering works in literary historiography, the book A Short History of English Literature combines in a remarkable manner the historic...

Since its publication in 1942, C.S. Lewis’s A Preface to Paradise Lost has remained and continues to remain an indispensable introductory book for ...

“... the most exhaustive and important in its field...” Thus, the judgment of an outstanding 19th century literary figure (see below on Ward’s mast...

“... the most exhaustive and important in its field...” Thus, the judgment of an outstanding 19th century literary figure (see below on Ward’s mast...

“... the most exhaustive and important in its field...” Thus, the judgment of an outstanding 19th century literary figure (see below on Ward’s mast...

“... the most exhaustive and important in its field...” Thus, the judgment of an outstanding 19th century literary figure (see below on Ward’s mast...

A History of English Criticism, which was originally the English Chapter of Saintsbury’s monumental three volume A History of Criticism and Literar...

A Guide to English Literature embraces a wide spectrum of literary works in the field of the English novel, drama and poetry. It is meant to enhanc...

Novel is arguably the most important genre of English literature. According to Jane Austen, the greatest powers of the mind are displayed in the no...

The book presents a bird’s eye view of the Indian fiction in English in terms of realism and social realism. The text gives at the most, a pen pict...

The book is a pioneering study of its kind, chronologically examining the novels of Anita Desai mostly from a female point of view. The book excels...

The book is an attempt to analyze and evaluate R.K. Narayan’s fictional world in the light of modern and post-modern concepts. Many books have alre...

A Critical Study of T.S. Eliot’s Works is a refreshing and insightful study of T.S. Eliot’s poetry, prose, and plays. It has six main chapters and ...

A Critical Study of T.S. Eliot: Eliot at 100 Years is an in-depth critical study of the whole oeuvre of T.S. Eliot by diverse hands. The book conta...

This book attempts to establish that a search for one’s self in Indian English fiction distinctively enough, culminates in an identification of ind...

The book studies Conrad’s mostly unconscious psychological promptings behind his adopted method of treatment of themes, at one stage one kind and a...

The fictional scene in England, immediately after the Second World War, makes an interesting reading. Many critical studies have, in great depth, i...

Besides other essays, A Critical Review of Writings in English mainly includes essays on some eminent Indian writers in English with reference to t...

The present book contains some fact-finding critical essays devoted to some of the literary stalwarts of Indian English Literature, such as, Sri Au...

The book, through critical analysis and assessment, tries to establish Seth as a powerful and serious writer, who deserves to be taken seriously, b...

This is perhaps the most comprehensive book on Wordsworth, highlighting discussions on most of the different dimensions of the poet—as a critic, a ...

This is perhaps the most comprehensive book on Wordsworth, highlighting discussions on most of the different dimensions of the poet—as a critic, a ...

This is perhaps the most comprehensive book on Wordsworth, having discussions on most of the different dimensions of the poet—as a critic, a poetic...

The book, A Companion to Teaching of English is designed to attract the students and teachers to the seminal art of the teaching of English as a se...

Philip (Arthur) Larkin (1922-85) is one of the foremost poets who flourished in the post-World War II era of English literature. He is widely taugh...

Philip (Arthur) Larkin (1922-85) is one of the foremost poets who flourished in the post-World War II era of English literature. He is widely taugh...

Philip (Arthur) Larkin (1922-85) is one of the foremost poets who flourished in the post-World War II era of English literature. He is widely taugh...

After the pioneer works by scholars such as Naik, Narasimhaiah and Mukherjee, and the thirty years of silence which followed their ground-breaking ...

The book is a Companion in the figure of a Guide (something like: “Everman I will go with thee and be thy guide/ in thy most need to go by thy side...

A great novelist, a learned and wise critic, and a charming short-story writer—can these three reside in a single person? Yes, but, of course, in a...

A great novelist, a learned and wise critic, and a charming short-story writer—can these three reside in a single person? Yes, but, of course, in a...

A great novelist, a learned and wise critic, and a charming short-story writer—can these three reside in a single person? Yes, but, of course, in a...

A great novelist, a learned and wise critic, and a charming short-story writer—can these three reside in a single person? Yes, but, of course, in a...

Scrooge, an old miser, hates Christmas, calling it "humbug". On a Christmas eve, he refuses his nephew Fred's dinner invitation, and rudely turns a...