English Literature

Describes the background of Middlemarch, discusses its themes and characterization, and looks at its critical reception

About the Book Since the rediscovery of Elizabethan stage conditions early this century, admiration for Measure for Measure has steadily risen. It ...

About the Book Norman Austin has organized his analysis of classical Greek myths around Lacan's dichotomy between (ineffable) Being and the meaning...

About the Book Max Beerbohm was widely celebrated as the wittiest mind of his age. And it was a very long age indeed: he became famous in the mid-1...

About the Book Last season, Seagull Books published the first three volumes in a new series collecting essays and interviews by the late French thi...

About the Book This acclaimed novel is set during the Lebanese Civil War and offers a rare depiction of women’s experiences amid this sprawling, ...

Many Mahābhāratas is an introduction to the spectacular and long-lived diversity of Mahābhārata literature in South Asia. This diversity begins wit...

About the Book When Kurt Weber inherits his great-uncle's lakeside house, he finds traces of the dark secrets of his family's past. The early inhab...

A tale of dramatic experiences in far away places and of the ongoing fight between the primitive and the civilized, Lord Jim (1900) is one of Josep...

About the Book London between the wars was a place of anxiety and uncertainty. After the postwar boom of the 1920s, the aftereffects of the stock m...

About the Book From Uncle Tom's Cabin to East of Eden, and from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest to I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and more.

These are times of upheaval when one is assaulted physically, emotionally and psychologically from all quarters. Despite the trauma, however, one s...

About the Book The intersection between law and literature is a developing area in literary studies. Recent work argues that literature provides an...

The book brings together a set of essays on literature, culture and literary conversations that have appeared in some of the leading forums in the ...

About the Book This four volume collection of primary sources examines literary and cultural criticism over the long nineteenth century. The volume...

Literary Activism revisits and interrogates, and looks to renew, the force of the literary. It's a movement that emerges from a radically altered l...

About the Book Emotionally compelling and formally innovative, Life-Like is Toby Litt's most ambitious collection of short stories to date, bringin...

About the Book Language Turned on Itself examines what happens when language becomes self-reflexive; when language is used to talk about language. ...

About the Book Language and National Identity in Asia is a comprehensive introduction to the role of language in the construction and development o...

About the Book Landscapes of Desire in the Poetry of Vittorio Sereni is the first book-length study in English on Vittorio Sereni (1913-83), one of...

This book studies the various narrative shades of love in twentieth-century Latin American fiction. It examines writings by Isabel Allende, Roberto...

Kids and Cubs (H.B)

Text: English (translation)

Keshab Chandra Sen (1838–84) was one of the most powerful and controversial figures in nineteenth-century Bengal. A religious leader and social ref...

About the Book Kenneth Tynan (1927-1980) lived one of the most intriguing theatre lives of his century. A brilliant writer, critic and agent provoc...

About the Book Dominique Edd 's gripping novel tells the story of the doomed Jann family as they plot against one another for revenge and power. Ka...

About the Book This work is an original and pioneering exploration of not only the social history of the subcontinent but also of performance and p...

About the Book Written in an easy-to-read, accessible style by teachers with years of classroom experience, Masterwork Studies are guides to the li...

About the Book Written by two of the world's leading Milton scholars, widely praised as "illuminating" (Times Literary Supplement), "seamlessly wri...

Table Of Contents: Series Editor's ForewordPreface to the Paperback EditionAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations of Works CitedIntroduction: Why Does Virag ...

About the Book This is a book about translation and literary influence. It takes as its subject Spain's most important contemporary novelist, Javie...

About the Book Women novelists in India who 'use' English to write fiction are, increasingly, gaining international recognition for their work. Unf...

Jane Austen is undoubtedly one of the finest English novelists: she paints on a small canvas, but with the most exquisitely detailed touch. Her nov...

About the Book Interpreting Motion presents an integrated perspective on how language structures constrain concepts of motion and how the world sha...

About the Book A detailed examination of Proverbs 1-9, an early Jewish poetic work. Stuart Weeks incorporates studies of literature from ancient Eg...

About the Book This book discusses the question of subjectivity in modern Indian literature using some of the most influential literary texts of th...

About the Book Dr L.M. Singhvi (1931-2007) was an eminent Indian jurist, a distinguished parliamentarian, a celebrated statesman, an able administr...

Like homeless wanderers, Indo-English women writers are constantly yearning for a home. Be it a nation, a house, a community, an identity- to call ...

About the Book One of the most dynamic feminist movements in the world, Indian feminisms are seldom given the recognition they deserve, not only fo...

When the monsoon rains come it’s not just us mere mortals who get to join in the celebration. The heavenly bodies have a little party of their own ...

About the Book Kuno, a male nurse in a Swiss retirement home, has a new inmate: his father. In the confines of their new home, the pair does someth...

About the Book Lutz Seiler grew up in the former East Germany and has lived most of his life outside Berlin. His poems, not surprisingly, are works...

About the Book In Paris, Montreal, Seville, Berlin and towns large and small, Diane Meur has dreamt--and she has remembered her dreams. In this sma...