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A Short History of American Literature is a succinct survey of over five hundred years of American literature. It conveys the uniqueness of American literature by focusing on the sociopolitical contexts that shaped America’s literary productions. It highlights the cultural myths and values and the specific historical processes that differentiate American literature from the literatures of England and Europe. The book adopts the current trend in the writing ...
Inscribing Identity : Essays from Nineteenth Century Bengal, edited by Krishna Sen in collaboration with Ramkrishna Bhattacharya, is a collection of twenty-five essays and long extracts, all written originally in English between 1818 and 1899 by eminent Bengali thinkers, leaders, scholars, scientists and business men of that era. The authors range from Raja Rammohun Roy and Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay to Iswarchandra Vidyasagar, Swami Vivekananda and Sri ...