• ISBN13: 9788171560769
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: June 26, 1991
• Pages: 160
• Original Price: INR 150.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 140 grams

C.P. Snow is a prominent figure in modern English fiction with his famous ‘Strangers and Brothers’ sequence of novels and other works. ‘The Novels of C.P. Snow’ successfully explores Snow’s social insights — his acute insights into social processes and contemporary social issues — and demonstrates that he is a novelist par excellence of society and a unique political novelist in the history of modern English fiction. “Mr. Maniyar’s argument and presentation has certainly illuminated much of C.P. Snow, and indeed lit up corners of his work hither to neglected”. “…..this is a first-rate job and deserves high praise all around”. Robert K. Morris, Professor of English, City College of the City of New York

Dr. A.K. Manlyar holds a Master’s degree in English of Karnatak University, Dharwad and the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of the same University. He has been teaching English language and literature for last 22 years and is presently working as Reader and the Head of the Department of English at Basaveshwar Arts College, Bagalkot (Karnatak).

• CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
• I. Introduction
• II. Social Insight
• III. The Novelist of Social Insights
• IV. The Classification of the Novelists of Social Insights
• CHAPTER TWO: THE MAKE-UP OF SNOWS SOCIO-REALISTIC OUTLOOK
• I. Introduction
• II. The Age of C.P. Snow
• The Contemporary Scene
• (a) The Social Scene
• (b) The Literary Scene
• III. Life and Career of C.P. Snow
• IV. Snow’s Prejudices, Inclinations and Preoccupations
• (i) Snow’s Prejudices
• (ii) Snow’s Inclinations
• (iii) Snow’s Preoccupations
• V. Conclusion
• CHAPTER THREE: SNOWS INSIGHT INTO SOCIAL DYNAMICS
• I. Introduction
• II. Structural Changes (Physical Changes) in Social Groups
• (i) Degeneration in Leadership
• (ii) The Pressure of External Social Milieu
• (iii) Internal Dissension
• III. Moral Changes in Social Groups
• CHAPTER FOUR: SNOWS INSIGHT INTO THE PROCESS OF SOCIAL POWER
• I. Introduction
• II. Closed Politics
• (a) Combination Room Politics: The Masters and The Affair
• (b) Court Politics
• (c) Hierarchical Politics
• (d) Committee Politics
• III. High Power Politics
• (a) Corridor Politics
• (b) International Politics
• IV. Conclusion
• CHAPTER FIVE: SNOWS INSIGHT INTO THE PROCESS OF SOCIAL CHANGE
• I. Introduction
• II. Changes in Social Systems:
• (a) The Class
• (i) Decline of the Aristocracy
• (ii) Lower-middle class Upsurgence
• (iii) Emergence of the Meritocracy
• (b) The family
• (c) The Marriage
• III. Cultural Changes:
• (a) Decline of Traditional Culture and Emergence of Scientific Culture
• (b) Break-down of Traditional Authoritarian Cultural Order and Rise of Liberal Cultural Order
• (c) Change in the Status of Woman
• (d) Change in Life-Style
• (e) Rise in Crime-rate and Juvenile Offences
• (f) Decline in Moral Standards
• (g) Decline in Educational Standards
• (h) Decline in Aesthetic Standards
• IV. Socio-Economic Changes and Changing Social Mood : The Hopeful Twenties, the Depressed Thirties, the Active Forties, the Placid Fifties, the Riotous Sixties, the Bleak Seventies
• V. The Political Divide and Changing Profile
• VI. Conclusion
• CHAPTER SIX: CONCLUSION
• I. Snow’s Contribution to Novel
• (i) Scientific Respectability
• (ii) Novel of Human Ecology
• (iii) Political Novel
• (iv) Social Chronicle
• II. Snow’s Achievement as Novelist
• (i) A Novelist of Closed Politics and High Power Politics
• (ii) Novelist of Social Change
• (iii) A Champion of Disarmament Policy
• (iv) Snow and other Novelists of Society
• (v) Snow’s Impact on Contemporary and Later Novelists
• (vi) Snow and the Great Tradition of English Fiction
• BIBLIOGRAPHY