English Literature

After Shakespeare the most famous British author in Europe, in Britain Byron was for years either neglected, or a victim of the myth of his own per...

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This edited collection is about the application of English grammar and specialises in 'functional' and'corpus' approaches, approaches which are inc...

this study relates Trollope to the broad Victorian culture to which he offered a distinctive, creative response. It looks particularly at the natur...

This new study of Andrew Marvell offers a state-of-the-art guide to one of the most intriguing and elusive poets of the seventeenth century. Hero t...

Who is more important: the reader, or the writer? Originally published in French in 1966, Pierre Macherey’s first and most famous work, A Theory of...

This comprehensive guide to the history of literary criticism from antiquity to the present day provides an authoritative overview of the major mov...

Key Features Keith Johnson, a leading phonetician, has revised the material on acoustic phonetics to incorporate developments in technology and res...

This volume presents fresh approaches to classic Victorian fiction from 1830 to 1900. Consisting of a series of original essays written by prominen...

The diverse and controversial world of contemporary Milton studies is brought alive in this stimulating Companion. Winner of the Milton Society of ...

A ‘marketplace phenomenon’ of the twentieth century, a ‘bright spot’ in an otherwise fluctuating literature market and an integral part of the live...

The contemporary creative literature in English is marked by an irresistible urge to look at its past and the surrounding realities from a changed ...

As the title Writing Difference: Nationalism, Identity and Literature suggests, the dominant theme of the book is nation and its inevitable concomi...

There is a strong tradition of women’s poetry written in response to the events of the First World War. Many of these poems depict direct experienc...

Women Writers in the Twentieth Century Literature, an anthology consisting of twenty articles by eminent scholars, is an attempt to analyse the poi...

Within the social structure of India itself, there had been a typical man-woman relationship in terms of dependence and support. Woman was supposed...

Women in Nigerian and Indo-Anglian Fiction: A Comparative Study of Female Novelists highlights the problems faced by women. The similarities and co...

Women in Love, the book Lawrence considered his best, was written during World War I, and while that conflict is never mentioned in the novel, a se...

To make Shakespeare comprehensible to the eager student is a challenging task and this is what the present work sets out to do. It provides the rea...

This is the first ever comprehensive annotated bibliography on Indian English fiction. It is intended to be a primary source book to be used by the...

William Shakespeare is considered the best poet and dramatist of all ages. His tragic drama Othello has been popular since its first performance at...

Shakespeare is widely acknowledged as the greatest English dramatist and poet. Among the 37 plays that he wrote are included tragedies, comedies an...

King Lear is one of the most difficult plays of Shakespeare. It takes ordinary jealousies, demand for love, sibling rivalries, desire for money and...

Every time Shakespeare is read or taught one faces a challenge: how to make him comprehensible to the eager student. This is what the present work ...

Every time Shakespeare is read or taught one faces a challenge: how to make him comprehensible to the eager student. This is what the present work ...

As You Like It has been acclaimed as the best of the Golden Comedies of Shakespeare. It brings together the elements of romance and pastoralism to ...

Antony and Cleopatra is a well-known tragedy by William Shakespeare. Its first known appearance in print came in the First Folio of 1623. The plot ...

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is acclaimed as the best of the early comedies of Shakespeare. It brings together the elements of romance, supernatural f...

Shakespeare is the brightest star in the galaxy of English writers. He excelled in writing all types of drama—Tragedy, Comedy, Romantic and Histori...

Shakespeare’s most enduringly popular and globally influential play, Macbeth encapsulates the greatest Christian tragedy of all: the Fall of Man. ...

The present book aims at a detailed study of Macbeth, dealing with the theme of ambition and fear. It organizes its material in terms of characteri...

Shakespeare produced most of his work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were comedies and histories—genres he raised to the peak of sophistica...

Shakespeare produced most of his work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were comedies and histories—genres he raised to the peak of sophistica...

Shakespeare produced most of his work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were comedies and histories—genres he raised to the peak of sophistica...

Shakespeare produced most of his work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were comedies and histories—genres he raised to the peak of sophistica...

Shakespeare produced most of his work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were comedies and histories—genres he raised to the peak of sophistica...

Shakespeare produced most of his work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were comedies and histories—genres he raised to the peak of sophistica...

During the post-war years the experimental tendency in British novel continued, but the critics lamented that the mid-twentieth century British lit...

Golding often presents isolated individuals or small groups in extreme situations dealing with man in his basic condition stripped of trappings, cr...

The present work is a critical study of William Congreve’s Play The Way of the World. It is a comedy of manners and the reader will find eminently ...

William Blake (1757—1827) was an English painter, poet and printmaker. He was born in Soho, London to James and Catherine Blake. He left his school...

The book contains principles, techniques, exercises and practical ideas to make you win in life: to improve your market worth, better your finances...

The book is a comprehensive and critical analysis of selected novels of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and Gloria Naylor and attempts to examine the “...

W.H. Auden’s Poetry: The Quest for Love is a study of the major twentieth-century British-American poet W.H. Auden’s mutating quest for love in the...

W.B. Yeats: Poetry and Plays studies the poetry and plays of William Butler Yeats, perhaps the greatest poet in the English language of his period,...

Although politics is supposed to be something dirty that will contaminate the otherwise pure stream of poetry, all great poets right from the days ...

This scholarly book on Virginia Woolf’s experimental novels is an outstanding contribution to Virginia Woolf scholarship. The renewed academic vent...