English Literature

In the delightful social comedy of Pride and Prejudice (1813) Jane Austen delicately handles the problem of love and money in marriage where, in sp...

The Primer of Greek Literature, originally published in 1877, is, till date, the finest introduction to the literary world of the Greeks. The book ...

A great dramatist, literary critic, an eminent showman, intellectual and a satirist, George Bernard Shaw was a leading theatre personality of the 2...

Exploring a huge variety of texts written in English from India and Canada, the eighteen essays contained in the present anthology belong to curren...

R.K. Narayan and His Social Perspective deals with the caste-ridden Hindu society which Narayan presents in his novels. His Characters are fatalist...

In the mid-thirties, R.S. Crane, the pivotal critic of the Chicago School, launched a crusade to save the humanities from scientism as much as from...

To study Rabindranath Tagore is to be christened with the excellence of inwardness. An ardent apostle of the endless excellence of man, Tagore is m...

The present volume comprises complete translations of two important collections of Tagore’s essays on literature: Sāhityer Pathe and Sāhityer Svarū...

Rabindranath Tagore long life (1861-1941) was marked by ceaseless and torrential flow of creativity manifested in the richness and variety of all k...

This book explores Tagore’s socio-political ideas through his novels, short stories, and essays. It looks at Tagore beyond his literary achievement...

If poetry is best of words, best of thoughts and best imagination, arranged in the best possible form and order of expression, Rabindranath Tagore:...

Love, an emotional component par excellence, is perhaps at the core of human life and experience. To Rabindranath Tagore, it is more than divine an...

This book looks at Rabindranath Tagore’s, experiments and journey as an educator and the influence of humanistic worldviews, nationalism and cosmop...

The book places a body of women’s fiction against the ideological territory of radical feminism with a firm belief in its social, political and int...

Raja Rao: A Study of His Novels represents Raja Rao’s fictional world from a refreshingly new perspective. It offers a comprehensive account of the...

This book presents empirical knowledge of the author, in wide and varied fields of human behaviour, acquired over six decades of his life. In our d...

Combining detailed explorations of both mainstream and experimental poets with a clear historical and literary overview, Reading Postwar British an...

Reading Romantic Poetry introduces the major themes and preoccupations, and the key poems and players of a period convulsed by revolution, prolonge...

Reading the American Novel 1780-1865 provides valuable insights into the evolution and diversity of fictional genres produced in the United States ...

Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel is a lively exploration of the evolution of the English novel from 1688-1815. A range of major works and autho...

Reading Victorian Poetry offers close readings of poems from the Victorian era by a renowned scholar. The selection includes a range of canonical ...

Coming to prominence with the nineteenth-century novel, literary realism has most often been associated with the insistence that art cannot turn aw...