Study of literature is the study of man’s struggles and aspirations, which in the twentieth century context have come to assume across the world a striking similarity in both form and content, irrespective of the disparate geographical, political, social and cultural situations.
The present Volume of Twentieth Century Literature in English examines a wide selection of writers from different parts of the world — England, America and ‘the Commonwealth’ — to substantiate and scrutinize this contention. Comprising detailed critiques of modern trends/movements like Science Fiction and Feminism, broad-based critical analyses of Commonwealth Literary Studies and Women in Literature, the Volume also includes in-depth exploration of the works of Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, John Osborne, Henry Miller, Henry David Thoreau, Nissim Ezekiel, Krishna Srinivas, Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan, and Bhabani Bhattacharya.
Incorporating original studies of twentieth century literature in English from hitherto unexplored perspectives, the Volume facilitates a thorough re-evaluation of modern literature in English.
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 Poona, Poona. Currently, he is engaged in working as Principal Investigator on a U.G.C. Major 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 Novels of Nayantara Sahgal. His areas of interest are: Literary Theory, Comparative Literature, Commonwealth and Indian English Literature and Third World Fiction.
