English Literature

Black Beauty translated from the original Equine, the fictional ‘autobiography’ of a talking horse, first published on 24th November 1877, is Anna ...

As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 and first published in the First Folio in 1623. Th...

A history of English literature is a chronological account of the books which have been written in the English language and their authors. Since li...

Literature is a vital record of what men have seen in life, what they have experienced of it, what they have thought and felt about those aspects o...

Also known as An Apology for Poetry, The Defence of Poesy is a work of literary criticism by Elizabethan poet Philip Sidney. It was written around ...

English has emerged as the leading language for write-ups, conversations, media and communication. English skills are generally considered a passpo...

In an era of globalization, mastering English language has assumed great significance. Communication in English has become an essential skill for t...

Now available in a single volume paperback, this advanced reference resource for the novel and novel theory offers authoritative accounts of the hi...

The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature is an authoritative three-volume reference work that covers British artistic, literary, and intellectual m...

Featuring entries composed by leading international scholars, The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature presents comprehensive coverage of...

A ground-breaking resource available either online or as a 10-volume print set bringing together historic and emerging areas of research within app...

Available online or as a five-volume print set, The Blackwell Companion to Phonology is a major reference work drawing together 124 new contributio...

Theory is valuable to the degree that it enables us to read differently: a nuanced approach shows that the most obvious interpretation is never the...

Reading Victorian Poetry offers close readings of poems from the Victorian era by a renowned scholar. The selection includes a range of canonical ...

Combining detailed explorations of both mainstream and experimental poets with a clear historical and literary overview, Reading Postwar British an...

Winner of the Christian Gauss Award for excellence in literary scholarship from the Phi Beta Kappa Society Having excavated the world’s earliest no...

This collection offers students and scholars of Eliot’s work a timely critical reappraisal of her corpus, including her poetry and non-fiction, ref...

Presupposing no prior knowledge of linguistics, The Handbook of Linguistics is the ideal resource for people who want to learn about the subject an...

This study explores the connections between a secular Indian nation and fiction in English by a number of postcolonial Indian writers of the 1980s ...

Literature today is a very different concept from that of only a generation ago, and this difference is attributed usually to 'postmodernism'. Most...

In this brilliantly provocative and comprehensively informative introductory text, Niall Lucy shows the student how postmodern literary theory work...

Literary Theory: An Anthology is a unique combination of the classic statements in criticism and the new theories that have revolutionized literary...

This book is a splendid profile of an extraordinary man, and a radically new interpretation of one of the most controversial figures in history. Ca...

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

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...