English Literature

“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...

The book contains well researched articles by scholars from Indian Universities. The articles offer a comprehensive view of what American fiction h...

The Ambassadors, published in 1903, is considered by theauthor himself to be his most 'perfect' work of art. In this novel, with much humour and de...

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...

Edith Wharton s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, The Age of Innocence is a social satire, a bitter-sweet romance, bringing to life the grandeur ...

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...

“... the most exhaustive and important in its field...” Thus, the judgment of an outstanding 19th century literary figure (see below on Ward’s mast...

“... the most exhaustive and important in its field...” Thus, the judgment of an outstanding 19th century literary figure (see below on Ward’s mast...

“... 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...

The book presents a bird’s eye view of the Indian fiction in English in terms of realism and social realism. The text gives at the most, a pen pict...

The book is a pioneering study of its kind, chronologically examining the novels of Anita Desai mostly from a female point of view. The book excels...

The book is an attempt to analyze and evaluate R.K. Narayan’s fictional world in the light of modern and post-modern concepts. Many books have alre...

A Critical Study of T.S. Eliot’s Works is a refreshing and insightful study of T.S. Eliot’s poetry, prose, and plays. It has six main chapters and ...

A Critical Study of T.S. Eliot: Eliot at 100 Years is an in-depth critical study of the whole oeuvre of T.S. Eliot by diverse hands. The book conta...

This book attempts to establish that a search for one’s self in Indian English fiction distinctively enough, culminates in an identification of ind...

The book studies Conrad’s mostly unconscious psychological promptings behind his adopted method of treatment of themes, at one stage one kind and a...

The fictional scene in England, immediately after the Second World War, makes an interesting reading. Many critical studies have, in great depth, i...

Besides other essays, A Critical Review of Writings in English mainly includes essays on some eminent Indian writers in English with reference to t...

The present book contains some fact-finding critical essays devoted to some of the literary stalwarts of Indian English Literature, such as, Sri Au...