English Literature

Once considered scandalizingly immoral, Flaubert's exquisite debut novel unsparingly depicts a woman's gradual corruption and the human mind in sea...

The present anthology entitled Mahesh Dattani: Themes Techniques and Issues is an assortment of scholarly research papers on fresh perspectives and...

Major Barbara, a social satire in three acts, written in 1905 and published in 1907, is the most controversial of Shaw's works which mocks religiou...

G.B. Shaw is a literary Mohican who bestrode modern thought like a Colossus, but he was not a historian in a popular sense. He wrote many plays on ...

America is a country of immense diversity, home to people from heterogeneous ethnic, religious and social backgrounds. Over the years, American soc...

This book presents a reasonably comprehensive account of the development of the Indian English novel since Independence. The novel during the colon...

The book has extended and widened the implications of the term “New Literatures in English” to include an assessment of New Humanities and other ar...

Man and Superman, a four-Act drama, was written in 1903 as a response to those who had questioned Shaw as to why he had never written a play based ...

Mansfield Park is a unique novel in its moral design, with a heroine remarkably different from the author’s previous creations. This young lady, Mi...

Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a versatile artist in the Canadian literature. This book is an assessment of Atwood’s belief about the condition of wome...

Often a question is raised whether the marginalized can speak. It is a fact that the marginalized cannot stay voiceless for long, they have to spea...

Since the first edition of this book was published in 2002 there have been many changes in language teaching, not least those associated with techn...

Measure for measure is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604. Originally published in the first Folio of 162...

One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. The life of Gregor Samsa,...

This book is an intensive attempt to analyze the gendered nature of immigrant experience portrayed in the short stories of three highly acclaimed I...

A rare embodiment of the Brahminical virtue of learning, a.K. Ramanujan was one of the most prodigious of creative writers that modern India has pr...

There is no poet in English Literature like Milton : so firm in religious conviction, so fierce in politics, so high in poetic flight, so grand in ...

Modern American literature is too vast and varied to be studied between the covers of a single book. Although limited by space, a sincere effort ha...

This anthology assembles sixteen essays on different aspects of modern criticism, by some of the best scholars from six countries and four continen...

Modern English Literature: From Chaucer to The Present Day critically examines the famous authors of English Literature spread over a long period, ...

The study is a painstaking probe into the unfolding of a hitherto ignored thematic and stylistic dimension of modern Indian English Fiction. Beginn...

Modern Linguistics that began in the form of philology towards the end of the eighteenth century is now much wider in scope. This book extensively ...