English Literature

The Nigger of the 'Narcissus', published in 1897, is widely regarded as the finest and the strongest picture of the sea and sea life that the Engli...

Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian fiction portraying a society ruled by an oligarchical dictatorship. The Oceanian province of Airstrip One is a ...

This book brings together critical articles on all the English works of the brilliant Indian writer Nirad Chaudhuri—from his Autobiography of an Un...

Northanger Abbey, written during the same period as Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, represents Jane Austen's genius at its freshest ...

With this book an effort has been made to reassert that Anglo-Indian novel is an established genre today and Indian artists can be ranked with Brit...

With this book an effort has been made to reassert that Anglo-Indian novel is an established genre today and Indian artists can be ranked with Brit...

Winner of the Christian Gauss Award for excellence in literary scholarship from the Phi Beta Kappa Society Having excavated the world’s earliest no...

Novel has become the main literary medium in today’s world. The growth of novel in its different phases and over ages has witnessed the spate of va...

Walker Percy was an American Southern author whose interests included philosophy and semiotics. He is best known for his philosophical novels set i...

The book is a pioneering study of its kind, Chronologically examining the novels of Anita Desai mostly from a feminist point of view. The book exce...

Off the Line: Transgression and Its Representation in Literature and Culture consists of twenty-four articles expressing the views and perspectives...

Oliver twist, Dickens's critique of the harsh poor law of 1834 and a grim picture of the sordid reality The London underworld of Dickens's times, s...

With an emphasis on readers and reading, Jonathan Culler considers deconstruction in terms of the questions raised by psychoanalytic, feminist, and...

Beginning with the nature of literature, this also asks the questions of why we should read literature and why literature has such authority over u...

Carl von Clausewitz's On War is the most relevant attempt in Western history to deconstruct war, both in its internal dynamics and as an instrument...

It is a fantasy novel published in 1928. It traces the career of the androgynous Orlando through four centuries from the late sixteenth century. It...

William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Engl...

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is one of the most pre-eminent postcolonial theorists writing today and a scholar of genuinely global reputation. This c...

One of the best-known works of Bradley, the present volume consists of lectures delivered during the author’s tenure of the Chair of Poetry (1901-1...

Papers on Indian Writing in English is in two volumes—first volume deals with poetry while the second volume is on fiction. This is the first volum...

Papers on Indian Writing in English is in two volumes—first volume deals with poetry while the second volume is on fiction. This is the first volum...