English Literature

Concurrent with increasing scholarly attention towards children’s literature, Canons of Children’s Literature, (Vol. II) explores an emerging body ...

Today, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children seem to be the only hope, the only refuge, appealing not only to th...

Today, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children seem to be the only hope, the only refuge, appealing not only to th...

British Victorian Literature — Critical Assessments is a cross-section of some of the most insightful and perceptive critical writings ever publish...

The reputation of Wordsworth, once regarded as the most important exponent of English Romanticism, has, strangely, been quite controversial, and th...

British Romantic Poets — Critical Assessments is a selection of some of best critical writings available on the British Romantic period of English ...

Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during the time of Charles Dickens. He was open-minded, willing to accept, and put to test the existenc...

Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, is also known as Manak Hindi (Devanagri: मानक हिन्दी). It is the primary official language...

The book conducts a thorough investigation into the seventy-three years (1865-1937) of Bankim criticism. It throws a flood of light on the evolutio...

Badal Sircar: People’s Playwright throws light on Sircar’s unequitable contribution to Indian theatre. He has not only given it a new dimension but...

Aspects of Contemporary World Literature is an unfailingly resourceful and informative book and its penetrating contemporary analyses bring into vi...

This book deals with colonialism, political culture and nationalism in India. It examines Sati Pratha in nineteenth-century India, the plight of wo...

The present book seeks to present Arun Joshi as a novelist of great merit and as an author of rare sensitivity. It reveals his instinctive ability ...

Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by Jules Verne. It is the story of a rich English gentleman living a life of modesty a...

War has always been a forceful theme in American fiction from the time when Stephen Crane wrote The Red Badge of Courage, his epic novel about the ...

Literary theory is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for analyzing literature. It is a highly complex and fascina...

Applied linguistics is an interdisciplinary field of study that identifies, investigates and provides solutions to language-related real-life probl...

“A memorable book. The best that Anita Desai has written.” —Paul Bailey in the Evening Standard (about In Custody) “The beauty of In Custody is tha...

Anita Desai, a recipient of many literary awards in India and abroad, and a creative writing teacher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology since...

Today Anita Desai is recognised for her originality, versatility and the indigenous flavour of her character-portrayal that she brings to her work....

First published in 1927 by Frank Cass and Company Limited, London, the book is about William Blake, his symbols, and their meanings. Blake was an E...

Endeavouring to accomplish an intract-able tight rope walking, Indian English literature seeks to incorporate Indian themes and experience in a ble...

Endeavouring to accomplish an intract-able tight rope walking, Indian English literature seeks to incorporate Indian themes and experience in a ble...

Endeavouring to accomplish an intract-able tight rope walking, Indian English literature seeks to incorporate Indian themes and experience in a ble...

Endeavouring to accomplish an intract-able tight rope walking, Indian English literature seeks to incorporate Indian themes and experience in a ble...

The book, Amitav Ghosh’s Writings explores how his writings creatively endeavour to negotiate through the complex web of historical, political, eco...

The Shadow Lines is a highly innovative, complex and celebrated novel of Amitav Ghosh. Published in 1988, it received the prestigious Sahitya Acade...

The present venture is a commentary on the books of Amitav Ghosh. It is written with a purpose to explain the ideas that move these books. Ghosh, l...

Alexander Pope was a satirist, no doubt, but his attitude to life was not negative. Behind all his writings, there is a coherent philosophy of life...

Alexander Pope (1688-1744), was a famous English essayist, critic, satirist, and one of the greatest poets of enlightenment. He showed his precocio...

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...

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...