English Literature

Most plays of Shakespeare are flushed with dramatic embellishing devices, such as music, dance, masque, pageant, ghost, apparition, dumb-show, clow...

In this book Bradley approaches the major tragedies of Shakespeare through an extended study of the characters, who were presented as personalities...

Shakespearian References, the most authentic record of Shakespearian quotations in its manifold use, is the first and largest collection of quotabl...

The present book seeks to study the feminist perspective in Shashi Deshpande’s novels. It reveals Deshpande’s sincerity and ability in voicing the ...

The book critically examines Shashi Deshpande’s award-winning novel, That Long Silence (1988), which is usually regarded as a feminist text of imme...

She Stoops to Conquer is based on the two incidents of being the target of practical jokes, and being out on blind dates, creating a complicated, c...

Shiv K. Kumar as a Post-colonial Poet is an incisive and well researched book. It makes an indepth study of the entire corpus of Shiv K. Kumar’s Po...

Silas Marner is an impressive narrative, spiced with rustic humour and replete with forceful village characters. Accused of a false charge of theft...

Sir Philip Sidney regarded poetry as superior to History and Philosophy, but Victorian poet Robert Browning mixed poetry with History as well as Ph...

Raja Rao is an erudite scholar and an ennobling Indian novelist in English. His sensibility is verily Indian and presents a unified vision of life....

Have wireless mobile communication technologies changed the way people talk to one another? This volume takes a global perspective and provides rea...

Sons and Lovers is considered to be D.H. Lawrence's first mature novel. What is unique about this novel is its profound psychological insights into...

With its peculiarities, socio-political and religious similarities and differences, South Asia, as a region carries many significant characteristic...

Tennessee Williams was an American playwright and author of many stage classics. He is considered among the three foremost playwrights in 20th-cent...

The book explores how theatre, with its performative capacity, has the power to engage with and affect the politics of its day. It sets the stage f...

Part of the Blackwell Manifestos series, The State of the Novel offers a lively, yet rigorous investigation into the state and future of the contem...

First published in 1912 by Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, the book presents studies by Sarah Julie Mary Suddard on the works of Keats,...

During its early history, America was a group of British colonies on the eastern coast of the present-day United States. Its literary tradition, th...

The Volume includes discussions on the American tradition of poetry as reflected in and enriched by the poetry of Robert Frost; then moving through...

Studies in Classic American Literature is valuable not only for the light it sheds on eighteenth and nineteenth century American consciousness, tel...

Commonwealth Literature today stands for literature(s) in English written in the commonwealth countries outside the Anglo-American tradition. What ...