Here is the Second volume of the New Series, Studies in Literature in English. The present volume includes studies on some celebrated canonical British texts and authors like Milton, Austen, Lawrence, Conrad and Eliot, as well as some major postcolonial writers of Canada and Africa like Atwood, Kroetsch, and Achebe. Again, even as it casts a look back at Emerson and his affinity with Hinduism, it goes ahead to accommodate the South Asian-Canadian Diaspora. Finally, the volume winds up with a glance at Indian literature in English translation with special reference to Tagore’s Red Oleander. The studies undertaken from variegated perspectives introduce a wide critical spectrum — ranging from ethics to sociology, feminism to alienation, religion to aesthetics, myth criticism to cultural nationalism, diasporic angst to the search for indigenous roots. That English literature today is not one but many literatures in English and that any study of it requires that appropriate critical idiom which can do justice to this extraordinary richness and variety become evidenced by the nature of this anthology — both by its choice of subjects and by the respective treatments rendered to the subjects. Anybody who is interested in the study of English literature(s) will find this book interesting and valuable. Teachers, scholars, and students of Literature in English will also find the book useful because of the authors’ competent and insightful analyses of some of the major British, American, African and Canadian writers and their texts. The discussions on Tagore’s — play in English translation — is another highlight of the collection. It is, indeed, a pleasure and a profit to go through the well researched papers of the volume, some of which are refreshingly original and perceptive.

Table of Contents:
1. Nature as Landscape and Ethical Norm in Paradise Lost –Ramesh Chandra Tungaria 2. Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility : A Slice of Middle Class Life and Mind –Kumar Chandradeep 3. Sons and Lovers : An Anti-Feminist Novel –Susheel Kumar Sharma 4. Loneliness in Heart of Darkness –Sahadeo A. Chougule 5. Treatment of Vedic Self-Realization and Cosmic Consciousness in Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral –Surekha Dangwal 6. The Basic Tenets of Hinduism and Emerson –Sadhana Agrawal 7. Richard Eberhart : The Relative Symphony –Krishnamayi A. 8. The Feminist Quest for ‘Self’ : A Study of Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman –Ramesh Kumar Gupta 9. Victims as Victors in the Fictional World of Margaret Clarke –Rudra Prasad Mahto 10. Discourses of Displacement : Voices from Canada — A Comparative Study of Four South Asian- Canadian Writers –C.C. Mishra 11. The ‘Great Resonances’ : Kroetsch’s Use of Myths in What the Crow Said –Rama Kundu 12. The Myth of Decolonization : An Aspect of Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah –Akhileshwar Thakur 13. Red Oleanders as a Satire –Basavaraj Naikar 14. The Ramayana, Raktakarabi and Surfacing : An Eco-Feminist Perspective –Mohit K. Ray