English Literature

Stephen Greenblatt argued in these celebrated essays that the art of the Renaissance could only be understood in the context of the society from wh...

Tolstoy’s art as represented in his greatest novels: War and Peace and Anna Karenina continues to absorb, fascinate and delight modern readers desp...

This book focuses on varied forms of self-referential storytelling or life writing and its emergence as a democratic and inclusive genre, both glob...

A comprehensive study of variation and change, including current debates in the area.

Literature is the chief surrogate for faith, or at least this is what a number of thinkers after the eighteenth century have thought. But since lit...

Literary Criticism in Theory and Practice presents a penetrating analysis of the major theories and practices of all the dominant groups of literar...

This book examines and evaluates the critical position of R.S. Crane, the leader of the Chicago school of formalistic criticism. Crane and his coll...

Literary studies are supplemented by critiques that offer unique perspectives on diverse and complex concerns influencing every epoch. While litera...

Literary Criticism: An MCQ Based Study Guide offers an exhaustive coverage of Literary Criticism as a discipline. Beginning with the Classical Crit...

This book explores the use of digital humanities (DH) to understand, interpret, and annotate the poetics of Indian literary and cultural texts, whi...

Literary Theory: A Practical Introduction, Third Edition, presents a comprehensive introduction to the full range of contemporary approaches to the...

Literary Theory: A Reintroduction introduces the current state of theory by placing it in its social, historical, and institutional contexts. Focu...

The new edition of this bestselling literary theory anthology has been thoroughly updated to include influential texts from innovative new areas, i...

A quarter of a century on from its original publication, Literary Theory: An Introduction still conjures the subversion, excitement and exoticism t...

Literary Theory: Textual Application provides a critical and thorough presentation of contemporary theoretical perspectives on the different litera...

Literature Now provides a thought-provoking argument as well as an authoritative exploration of the key terms of literary studies. It will appeal t...

A staple story of womanhood united against social and economic despondencies, Little Women is the tale of four March sisters, Jo, Meg, Amy, and Bet...

In a clear and readable style, Living with Theory maps out contemporary theory, tracing its complex configurations, its political preoccupations, a...

Home has always been a centre of contention, contestation, and construction. It has never been a constant—a truth that contemporary life asserts mo...

Lord Jim is a work of Joseph Conard’s maturity as a writer, and is one of the book which established him as a master storyteller and a great noveli...

Love's Labour's Lost, in five-acts, was written sometime between 1588 and 1597 and published in a quarto edition in 1598, with a title page suggest...

The Tragedy of Macbeth, or Macbeth, is one of his Shakespeare's shorter tragedies, and was probably written between 1599–1606, and is thought to ha...