English Literature

The papers collected in this anthology represent a wide spectrum of critical interests of scholars specialising in Indian Fiction in English which ...

The papers collected in this anthology represent a wide spectrum of critical interests of scholars specialising in Indian Fiction in English which ...

During the seventy years of its effective history Indian Writing in English crossed many miles stones and has come to be finally accepted as a majo...

Studies in Fiction deals with George Orwell, John Steinbeck, Thomas Love Peacock, Anita Desai, Jerome David Salinger, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens...

The importance of English both as a link language, a means of communication and as a medium of instruction has been steadily growing since Independ...

Matthew Arnold once remarked, “He does not know English literature who only English literature knows,” and Max Muller arrived at the intellectual c...

Commonwealth Literature today stands for literature(s) in English written in the commonwealth countries outside the Anglo-American tradition. What ...

Studies in Classic American Literature is valuable not only for the light it sheds on eighteenth and nineteenth century American consciousness, tel...

The Volume includes discussions on the American tradition of poetry as reflected in and enriched by the poetry of Robert Frost; then moving through...

During its early history, America was a group of British colonies on the eastern coast of the present-day United States. Its literary tradition, th...

First published in 1912 by Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, the book presents studies by Sarah Julie Mary Suddard on the works of Keats,...

Tennessee Williams was an American playwright and author of many stage classics. He is considered among the three foremost playwrights in 20th-cent...

With its peculiarities, socio-political and religious similarities and differences, South Asia, as a region carries many significant characteristic...

The songs of Rabindranath Tagore are the songs Eternal. They stir our innermost emotions and sensibilities and leave a permanent stamp of living an...

Raja Rao is an erudite scholar and an ennobling Indian novelist in English. His sensibility is verily Indian and presents a unified vision of life....

Silas Marner is an impressive narrative, spiced with rustic humour and replete with forceful village characters. Accused of a false charge of theft...

Shiv K. Kumar as a Post-colonial Poet is an incisive and well researched book. It makes an indepth study of the entire corpus of Shiv K. Kumar’s Po...

Shaw’s Candida: A Critical Introduction presents a detailed study as well as a critical analysis on Candida and its different aspects. A brief disc...

The present book seeks to study the feminist perspective in Shashi Deshpande’s novels. It reveals Deshpande’s sincerity and ability in voicing the ...

Shakespearian References, the most authentic record of Shakespearian quotations in its manifold use, is the first and largest collection of quotabl...

Though sonnets are, generally, easy poems, Shakespeare’s sonnets are not, — and very naturally, he being a master-mind, — his sonnets are “far from...

Julius Caesar is one of the most popular plays of William Shakespeare, read, annotated and played in schools and colleges in India. In India, the f...

Most plays of Shakespeare are flushed with dramatic embellishing devices, such as music, dance, masque, pageant, ghost, apparition, dumb-show, clow...

According to the social historians of England, after the economic and religious unrest of the middle Tudor period, the freedom preached by the huma...

The legacy of the Shakespearean plays has been the subject of much scholarly analysis over the centuries. Indeed, so powerful are Shakespearean cre...

The legacy of the Shakespearean plays has been the subject of much scholarly analysis over the centuries. Indeed, so powerful are Shakespearean cre...

The legacy of the Shakespearean plays has been the subject of much scholarly analysis over the centuries. Indeed, so powerful are Shakespearean cre...

Shakespearean criticism is like an opium. Someone who has read Shakespeare once, cannot escape visiting either himself or through others the world ...

Both Shakespeare and Donne explore the strength of love against the ineluctable forces of time and mutability in their individual ways, and seem to...

This perceptive study of Shakespeare by Dowden remains unsurpassed. It is not an isolated work but an important landmark in scholarly criticism on ...

The book contains Blake’s poems and songs. “Poetical Sketches” is the first collection of poetry and prose by William Blake, written between 1769 a...

The book explores and introduces the world of Science Fiction (SF) by women writers, particularly Mary Shelley, Ursula K. Le Guin and Octavia Butle...

Science Fiction (SF) suggests a hybrid form of novel, partaking of both ordinary fiction and elements of science. One of the unacknowledged pleasur...

John Updike is undoubtedly one of the few great writers of the twentieth century, whose reputation has exceeded even his own early hopes and expect...

Rushdie has put behind him the political and religious controversy that surrounded him in the aftermath of the appearance of The Satanic Verses. Th...

Rushdie has put behind him the political and religious controversy that surrounded him in the aftermath of the appearance of The Satanic Verses. Th...

Rushdie has put behind him the political and religious controversy that surrounded him in the aftermath of the appearance of The Satanic Verses. Th...

Salman Rushdie (1947– ) has emerged over the years as one of the most controversial figures of our times who excites contrary feelings. But whether...

Salman Rushdie (1947– ) has emerged over the years as one of the most controversial figures of our times who excites contrary feelings. But whether...

Salman Rushdie (1947– ) has emerged over the years as one of the most controversial figures of our times who excites contrary feelings. But whether...

Salman Rushdie, one of the progenitors of the worldwide controversies till date, occupies a coveted place in the galaxy of post-colonial authors. H...

Coleridge was one of the few harbingers of Romanticism in England, and the enunciator of psychological criticism. One will certainly miss English R...

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s Novels (Woman Amidst Snares and Delusions) is a modest attempt to analyse and evaluate the predicament of the feminine sensi...

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

Ruskin Bond is a well-known Indian writer of British descent. His deep love for Indian culture and its people developed an understanding that enlar...

Ruskin Bond is the most popular Indian English novelist and short-story writer, though he has not received the acclaim he deserved from the critics...

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by Shakespeare early in his career between 1591-1595 about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimat...

Revisiting W.B. Yeats’s World and Art is a well-researched book occasioned by the poet’s 150th birth anniversary in 2015. This book is meant to be ...