English Literature

Dr Davies’ stimulating study covers the full range of Donne’s poetry, from the early satires and elegies to the Songs and Sonnets and Divine Poems,...

Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, an...

Instead of approaching cultural theory as a set of pronouncements to be learnt, this book considers why lecturers, students and cultural producers ...

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Edmund Spenser (1554-1599) was the greatest Elizabethan poet, whose Shepheardes Calendar (1579) inaugurated a revolution in English poetry, and who...

This text explores the concept of these related terms and considers the complex relationship that exists between all three. This useful guidebook i...

This study covers a wide range of Doris Lessing's works, including all of the novels (from The Grass is Singing through The Golden Notebook to The ...

Brings together 48 fresh and original contributions from practicing poets and leading scholars, who together offer critical and contextual coverage...

What is comedy? Andrew Stott tackles this question through an investigation of comic forms, theories and techniques, tracing the historical definit...

Christopher Marlowe is a writer of energy and extravagance. Plays such as Doctor Faustus, Edward the Second, The Jew of Malta, and Tamburlaine cont...

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...

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

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...

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

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 ...

V.S. Naipaul has claimed that all his work is really one and he has been writing one big book all these years; also, considering the world he has s...

V.S. Naipaul has claimed that all his work is really one and he has been writing one big book all these years; also, considering the world he has s...

V.S. Naipaul has claimed that all his work is really one and he has been writing one big book all these years; also, considering the world he has s...

Twentieth Century marks a watershed in human history, altering significantly the social, moral, psychological and spiritual dimensions of life. Ref...

The present anthology of critical essays on Twentieth Century English Literature seeks to put together the body of writing — criticism, poetry, fic...

Study of literature is the study of man’s struggles and aspirations, which in the twentieth century context have come to assume across the world a ...

Study of literature is the study of man’s struggles and aspirations, which in the twentieth century context have come to assume across the world a ...

This book studies Thomas Hardy’s portrayal of women in the Victorian period in England, still struggling for their essential human rights. Victoria...

The lasting fame and influence of Tennyson must rest upon the great works into which he has put the fullness of his strength and the freshness of h...

Mulk Raj Anand, the doyen of Indian English fiction, whose writing career spanned nearly four decades, has carved out a permanent niche in the lite...

Mulk Raj Anand is one of the best known novelists in English in India. Translated into many languages in India as well as abroad, he has been unive...

Like criticism, translation is always a text about a text and hence it is a metatext. We translate by intuition. There is no ‘Science of translatin...

Tagore’s English writings—originals and translations—have not received the attention that they deserve. The purpose of this edition is to make the ...

Tagore’s English writings—originals and translations—have not received the attention that they deserve. The purpose of this edition is to make the ...

Widely acclaimed by Eliot critics both at home and abroad, the book has been mentioned in various reference books of International renown, such as ...

During the last few centuries women writers have considerably widened and deepened the areas of human experience—with their sharp, feminine percept...

During the last few centuries women writers have considerably widened and deepened the areas of human experience with their sharp, feminine percept...

The new series—Studies in Women Writers in English—is a grateful acknowledgment of the contribution and public recognition of the emerging voice of...

British Literature refers to literature associated with the United Kingdom along with that of Isles of Man and Channel Islands. For purposes of foc...

Spectrum History of Indian Literature in English accomplishes the task of historical continuity by linking with the past the most recent present of...

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, a twentieth century expatriate writer of Polish-Jewish origins and British upbringing, who chose to make India her home since...