English Literature

This book studies sugarcane monoculture, the dominant form of cultivation in the colonial Caribbean, in the later 1600s and 1700s up to the Haitian...

This book explores the cognitive constraints and principles of variation in structures of linguistic meaning across languages. It unifies cognitive...

This book studies the significance and representation of the 'city' in the writings of Indian poets, graphic novelists, and dramatists.

The book explores how theatre, with its performative capacity, has the power to engage with and affect the politics of its day. It sets the stage f...

This book explores Tagore’s socio-political ideas through his novels, short stories, and essays. It looks at Tagore beyond his literary achievement...

This book looks at Rabindranath Tagore’s, experiments and journey as an educator and the influence of humanistic worldviews, nationalism and cosmop...

This volume addresses cultural and literary narratives of trauma in South Asian literature. Presenting a novel cross-cultural perspective on trauma...

The advent of print heralded a significant chapter in the history of colonial modernity in South Asia that led to the emergence of new literary cul...

This book explores the use of digital humanities (DH) to understand, interpret, and annotate the poetics of Indian literary and cultural texts, whi...

This book focuses on varied forms of self-referential storytelling or life writing and its emergence as a democratic and inclusive genre, both glob...

This book critically analyses classical Indian literature and explores the philosophical, literary, and cultural landscapes which have emerged in r...

This book explores the historical and cultural significance of comics in languages other than English, examining the geographic and linguistic sphe...

This multi-genre collection of chapters presents the dramatic transformation of English Studies in India since the early 1990s. It showcases the sh...

This book explores the complex assemblage of biopolitics, citizenship, ethics and human rights concerns in South Asia focusing specifically on wome...

This book examines disease in the context of gender discrimination. It highlights and explores how socio-economic, political, cultural, and gender ...

This volume forms a part of the Critical Discourses in South Asia series which deals with schools, movements and discursive practices in major Sout...

The volume examines the discourse-based critique of coloniality. It brings together an extensive interdisciplinary dialogue that reveals what diffe...

This book looks at Dalits in the city and examines the nature of Dalit aspirations as well as the making of an urban sensibility through an analysi...

Blind Narrations and Artistic Subjectivities: Corporeal Refractions makes an important contribution to the field of blindness studies by highlighti...

This volume critically explores the cultural significance and fate of the “literary” in the European and the Indian traditions as it traces the his...

Death threats, fatwa to behead and even murderous assaults have not been able to strangulate the voice of Salman Rushdie, who has always championed...

Twelfth Night is a tale of unrequited love, hilarious and heartbreaking, written around 1601-02 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of...

History and literature are closely related. Although it can present history without any exaggeration, the prejudices of novelists often prompt them...

Treasure Island, a wonderfully crafted edition of Stevenson’s classic adventure story, is known for its great plot, immortal characters and vivid i...

Virginia Woolf’s fifth novel, To the Lighthouse, was widely praised and has remained the most popular of all her novels. It is considered among the...

The Wind in the Willows is a book of linked animal tales that began as a series of bedtime stories and was published in 1908. It is beautifully wri...

The Way of the World is based around two lovers Mirabell and Millamant. In order for the two to get married and receive Millamant’s full dowry, Mir...

The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), is an exquisite portrait of village life whose idealization of the countryside, where sentimental moralizing, and m...

In January 1895, when Henry James was in the depths of depression due to the failure of his play Guy Domville, the Archbishop of Canterbury told hi...

Marco Polo is one of the most adventurous travellers in human history. His travels are recorded in Livres des Merveilles du Monde, a book which is ...

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway chronicles the temperaments and lifestyles of young, hard-drinking English and American expatriates on an ex...

The Secret Garden is one of the most delightful and enduring classics of children’s literature, which has remained a firm favorite with children th...

"The Secret Agent is one of Conrad's two supreme masterpieces, one of the two questionable classics of the first order that he added to the English...

A universal classic and a masterful exploration of humanity’s unending struggle with sin, guilt and pride, The Scarlet Letter is a foundational wor...

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title given by Edward FitzGerald to his translation of a selection of quatrains, originally written in Persian and ...

The Return of the Native, both powerful and sombre, is considered to be the most representative of Hardy’s novels. It is set in Egdon Heath whose l...

The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BC regarding the definition of justice, the order and character of the just city-s...

Set in the rural midlands of England, The Rainbow chronicles the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family, conveying how their rural exist...

Before Jane Eyre, The Professor was the first novel written by Charlotte Bronte. It was published posthumously in 1857 and remains a classic among ...

What is the fate of two unknowingly identical boys who exchange their lives? The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain is a historical satire set in...

The Prince contains a number of maxims concerning politics. It states that in order to retain power, the hereditary prince must carefully maintain ...

The Poetry of t.s. Eliot is an incisive interpretation of Eliot’s poetry in the Indian context vis-a-vis the views of Western critics in so far as ...

The Pilgrim’s Progress, a Christian allegory written by John Bunyan, is widely regarded as one of the most significant works of religious English l...

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a gothic and moral fantasy novel by Oscar Wilde. This is the only novel he wrote and published in 1891 after heavy ed...

The novel is set in the period of George Eliot’s own childhood, in the pre-railway, pre-industrial age, with its settled and secure order, and patt...

The Merchant of Venice is a 16th century play written by Shakespeare between 1596-1598 in which a merchant in Venice must default on a large loan p...

The Mayor of Casterbridge displays the influence of Hardy's upbringing, rural background, and architectural studies. His characters are primitive a...

Kipling's allegory, The Jungle Books, set in India and filled with high adventure and extraordinary characters that touch both our intellect and ou...