English Literature

Journey to the Centre of the Earth published in 1864 in French as Voyage au centre de la Terre is the second book in Verne's popular science-fictio...

Joseph Andrews is Fielding's first novel, and although directed against Samuel Richardson's Pamela which was a great success, it is far from being ...

Jane Eyre remains one of the most widely read of English Classics. In this novel, Charlotte Bronte invented a romantic tale of passion and thrill a...

In the modern or postmodern world, James Joyce is not only a stupendous writer but also a definer of the genre. His works are considered essential ...

Jacob Flanders is flawed, but also quite a brilliant man. An embodiment of solitude, Jacob is unable to concoct his affinity in life for traditions...

Scott’s most beloved and exciting adventure, Ivanhoe is a vivid recreation of Norman-Saxon conflict in 12th century England. Framing a royal myth o...

The dynamic field of graphic narratives is a burgeoning area of academic research and is being subjected to sustained analysis in academia worldwid...

Indian English Literature, a comprehensive anthology, presents perceptive chapters on the major Indian English writers, including novelists, dramat...

Identity and Gender in Postcolonial Multiculturalism covers the complexities of identity and gender in contemporary postcolonial British society, w...

Henry IV, Part One is a history play, believed to have been written no later than 1597. It is the second play in Shakespeare's tetralogy dealing wi...

Heart of Darkness is the finest of all Conrad's tales, showing him at the height of his powers as a writer of great vividness, intensity, and sophi...

Harold Pinter, a Nobel Prize-winning playwright, was renowned for voicing the fears, deformed sense of perception and anxiety that surfaced due to ...

“Let us strike the keynote, Coketown, before pursuing our tune... It was a town of machines and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents o...

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, usually shortened to just Hamlet, was written by Shakespeare sometime between 1599–1602. It is arguably o...

Gulliver's Travels, first published in 1726, was an immediate success and was read 'from the Cabinet - council to the Nursery' (Gay). It continues ...

The book combines general rules of English language for common users as well as complex issues for expert philologists. It contains the chief pecul...

Great Expectations is a superbly constructed novel of spellbinding mystery and is full of comic and tragic twists. It is generally considered to be...

Translation is an act of freedom from linguistic and cultural hegemony. In the post-colonial time, the projection of cultural voice in translation ...

The growing trend of inter-cultural migration brought by global market forces has infused fresh interest among people across the world in learning ...

Flowing Genre: Travelogues on the Ganga and the Narmada explores the canonicity of the hitherto minor genre of literature—travelogues—the establish...

The book examines contemporary Indian women writers working in the English language, namely Anita Nair, Sreemoyee Piu Kundu, and Meena Kandasamy, a...

One of the most acclaimed Russian works of literature, Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev is a philosophical fiction cutting across a wide-ranging s...

The story revolves around young and amorous but capricious Bathsheba Everdene and her enviable problem of coping with her three suitors simultaneou...

The recent academic focus on popular culture has prompted extensive research into terms like ‘popular’ and ‘mainstream’. Essays on the Popular in C...

The book presents the history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the close of the Victorian Era. It aims to create in every student th...

The book introduces some of the major areas that students and teachers of English in India should understand in order to follow a scientific approa...

NET is one of the most difficult examinations, more so because the syllabus is very vast and only a few lucky ones can cross the threshold, especia...

Emma was the last novel which Jane Austen lived to see through the press and is perhaps her most accomplished and representative work, happily comb...

Emerging Trends in the New Historical Fiction of India aims to unravel the intricacies and nuances of the literary movement by examining key works ...

The book explores the study of literature and environment. It analyses the relationship between human life and nature. It critiques the way we repr...

Ours is an age of criticism. Literary and critical theories have occupied a prominent place in our academic discipline. The twentieth century liter...

A manager of a stationary shop with a meagre salary, Ganpat has tried his best to keep his wife, Gomati, and his two children, Ganesh and Geeta, ha...

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. In the heart ...

D. H. Lawrence, once overlooked in his lifetime, is an icon of literary eminence. D.H. Lawrence: New Essays from India is an anthology of thirteen ...

The critique Contextualising Gramgeeta and mapping out the trajectories of tradition and reality explores the post-colonial discourse in historical...

Dr. Sunita Arya is Assistant Professor of English at Vasanta College for Women, Varanasi, BHU. An established scholar, she has published more than ...

Literary theory with an intellectual ancestry of over 2300 years is a highly complex and fascinating discipline. It is highly inter-disciplinary an...

Candida, a classic comedy, was written in 1894. Set in London’s East End during the Victorian era, the play is about the domestic turmoil that ensu...

The goal of yoga science is to calm the mind, that without distortion it may hear the infallible counsel of the Inner Voice. First published in 19...

The notion of 'home' in the postmodern world assumes a state of constant flux, characterised by instability rather than permanence. The concepts of...

Arms and the Man, one of Shaw’s most glittering comedies, was first produced on 21st April, 1894 at the Avenue Theatre and published in 1898 as par...

Politics is a work of political philosophy by Aristotle. The title of the book literally means “the things concerning the polis.” The end of the Ni...

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 ...

Anglophone Literature from Northeast India and Women’s Writing examines the literary works published in English that gauge the society, culture, no...

The book is based on the uniform pattern of syllabus for M.A. in English for Indian Universities prescribed by the UGC. It is comprehensive and cov...

Ecofeminism is an established feature of Indian literary thought, rooted in the Indian ethos. Women have been close associates of the natural scene...

The present book attempts to bring before the reading public an in-depth analysis of the literary scenario of 19th century America, focusing mainly...

Lewis Carroll's masterpieces, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass, mark an epoch in the history of dream lite...