Studies in Literature in English (Vol. IV)

It is a pleasure to place in the hands of our readers the fourth volume in the series, Studies in Literature in English. The essays included in this volume cover a broad spectrum of British canonical authors and texts and the studies are as insightful as they are topical. If feminism is very much in the air today, as many as six essays employ the latest tools of feminist criticism in examining eminent authors like William Blake, Lord Byron, Thomas Hardy, W.B. Yeats, D.H. Lawrence, and Doris Lessing. Other perspectives used in other essays are no less interesting. It is fascinating to see hw effectively the scholars, in their in-depth critical studies of the works off Charles Dickens, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster, H.G. Wells, T.S. Eliot, Harold Pinter and Julian Barnes use the modern ideas of diaspora, alienation, quest for identity, etc. An excursion into the worlds of these writers is bound to be as delightful as it will be rewarding. Since most of the authors discussed are widely prescribed in the university syllabus in India and abroad, teachers, scholars and students of English literature will find this volume extremely useful. The common readers who are interested in English literature will also find this book an interesting and precious aesthetic experience, because it is always exciting to see an old author I a new critical perspective.