New Perspectives in British Literature – Vol 1 (HARDCOVER)  | Released: 2010

British literature covers so much ground that it is often difficult for the teacher or student to know where to start. New Perspectives in British Literature presents comprehensive views of literature of the Renaissance, the Restoration, the Romantic period, and beyond. The anthology provides an introduction to the major writers and the main themes in British literature and offers a critical discussion of important debates engaging with concepts such as postmodernism; the impact of feminism and gender in literary studies; the rise of postcolonial literary theory; and the place of British literature within broader debates in contemporary culture. The book offers a thought-provoking analysis of a wide range of British writers. The width and depth of topics, styles, materials, and authors is simply staggering and will be of immense relevance to all the pursuers of English literature. This book will be a useful tool for readers wishing to know more about Britain's great literary tradition, for students pursuing English studies, for teachers and researchers in search of novelty and for libraries in need of an accessible reference work on this perennially interesting subject. Incorporating recent developments in the field, the anthology entices students to explore the subject further and also provides new syntheses that will be of interest to scholars.Table of Contents: Preface; 1. Venetian Ideology or Transversal Power? Iagos Motives and the Means by which Othello FallsJoseph Fitzpatrick and Bryan Reynolds; 2. Milton in America: The Case of Jackson County, FloridaBruce Boehrer; 3. The Victorian and Postmodern Metamorphoses of Dorian Gray: Narrating the Body OtherEsterino Adami; 4. Shaws Candida: A Double-EntendreChidananda Bhattacharya; 5. The Country-City Opposition in Blake: A Study of Songs of Innocence and ExperienceKenneth Usongo; 6. Baldassare Castigliones Book of the Courtier in Renaissance EnglandCarole Rozzonelli; 7. Imagery in Shakespeares HistoriesSanjay Kumar Sinha; 8. Lord Byron: The Romantic Augustan N. Sharada Iyer; 9. Response to the Seventies: The Characterization of Rose and Frances, Heroines of Margaret Drabbles Novels The Needles Eye and The Realms of GoldArpa Ghosh; 10. Moral and Religious Gnosis in Plays of Samuel BeckettAnita Myles; 11. Ode to a Nightingale: Keats Clairvoyant JourneyPurnendu Chatterjee; 12. Experience, Self-Realization and Artistic Vision: Stephen Dedalus in Joyces A PortraitErnest L. Veyu; 13. As You Like It, in Amazing LocationManju Dutta Gupta; 14. Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Poet and the Priest: A Study of The WindhoverNandini Sahu and Padmini Sahu; 15. D.H. Lawrence: Cosmic Symbolism in Sons and LoversVinita Singh; 16. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth: A Case Study in ManagementArindam Das; 17. Dreams, Nightmares and The Ancient Mariner Nishi Pulugurtha; 18. The House as Sign in Sons and LoversBristi Basu; 19. Of Human Bondage: Fact-Fiction InterfaceReena Mitra; 20. Shakespeare: The Bard Par ExcellenceVandana Datta; 21. William Blake: A Symbolist with a Prophetic VisionSanghita Sen; Contributors