Feminist English Literature (Second and Revised Edition) (Hardbound-2022)

Feminism is a rapidly developing critical ideology of great promise. It has evolved into a philosophy encompassing diverse fields of human activity in society. The feminist theory with its varied articulations and ramifications in a literary context constitutes a significant segment for critical endeavour.

The present anthology provides a broad spectrum on Feminist English Literature with in-depth analysis of the works of Kamala Das, Kamala Markandaya, Antia Desai, Rama Mehta, Shashi Deshpande, Uma Vasudevan, Githa Hariharan, Nina Sibal, Arundhati Roy, Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Margaret Atwood, Jean Rhys, Ellen Glasgow, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Toni Morrison, and others.

The volume also contains articles on feminist theory, the emerging self of women in Indian English Fiction, and general appraisal of women novelists with regard to their portrayal of the woman’s question.

Dr. Manmohan K. Bhatnagar is Professor, Department of English, M.D. University, Rohtak (Haryana), India. A distinguished scholar and a veteran teacher of more than two decades’ standing, he has been Chairman, Department of English, M.D. University, Rohtak and also Chairman, State Inter-University Common Syllabi Committee in English of Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra and M.D. University, Rohtak.

Having been selected for the prestigious Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship, Professor Bhatnagar has been a U.G.C.-empanelled Resource Person and part of the Guest Faculty at a number of U.G.C-sponsored Refresher Courses for College Lecturers. He has also chaired individual sessions at National Seminars. He has been a U.G.C. Fellow at Panjab University, Chandigarh and a U.G.C. Research Associate at University of Pune, Pune. Currently, he is engaged in working as Principal Investigator in a Major U.G.C. Project on Indian English Fiction.

Professor Bhatnagar’s publications include, besides a number of research articles in prestigious journals in India and abroad, Political Consciousness in Indian English Writing, Perspectives and The Fiction of Nayantara Sahgal. His areas of interest include Literary Theory, Comparative Literature, Commonwealth and Indian English Literature, and Third World Fiction.