Here is the seventh Volume of Studies in Literature in English brought out in response to the growing demand for the series. Starting with the good old Shakespeare of perennial interest the essays included in this Volume shed new light on Milton, the great classical writer, Wordsworth and Coleridge, the great Romantics, Browning, and Hardy, two great Victorians and Conrad, Lawrence and Eliot, the eminent Moderns. The essays also re-evaluate the great American masters: Edgar Allan Poe, Joyce Carol Oates, Walt Whitman, Sarah Orne Jewett, Ernest Hemingway, Yvor Winters, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, John Steinbeck, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Sylvia Plath, Jerzy Kosinski, Mark Strand and Sandra Lunnon. The Volume covers not only a wide range of authors and subjects but also offers a rich variety of aesthetic relish through treatments of Nobel Laureates, confessional poets, Black American writers and the Jewish writers, among others. Since most of the authors discussed here in the light of modern criticism are prescribed in the Universities in India, both the teachers and the students will find this Volume quite useful and stimulating and, needless to say, anybody interested in literature will enjoy these essays for their refreshingly original approaches to the canonical authors.

Table of Contents:
1. The Supernatural and the Atmosphere in Hamlet –KULDEEP KUMAR and GAJENDRA KUMAR 2. Milton’s Satan: A Marxist Perspective –KH. KUNJO SINGH 3. The Concept of Imagination in Wordsworth and Coleridge –ANJANI KUMAR 4. Browning and His Poems on Art –JAYANTA BHATTACHARYA 5. Thomas Hardy’s Tess: A Portrayal of Tess’s Murder More Than Alec’s –MALLIKARJUN PATIL 6. Conrad Distracted Over Romance –R.N. SARKAR 7. “Sun”: A Critical Analysis –SHABNAM FIRDAUS 8. The Ambiguity of ‘Emotion’ in T.S. Eliot and Indian Aesthetics –AKHILESHWAR THAKUR 9. The Influence of T.S. Eliot on Modern Indian Poetry –SHYAMSUNDAR PADIHARI 10. Gothic Resonances: The Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe and Joyce Carol Oates –D. RAMAKRISHNA 11. Concept of Democracy in the Poetry of Walt Whitman –MANJU CHATURVEDI 12. Nature and the Politics of Its Representation: A Reading of Sarah Orne Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs –ASHOK K. MOHAPATRA 13. The Narrative Techniques of Hemingway’s Short Story: A Critical Revaluation –ADLI H.M. ABDELJABER 14. Yvor Winters—An Evolving Critic –FED MATHEW 15. The Problem of Alienation among the Negro Women as Depicted in the Novels of Langston Hughes, Richard Wright and James Baldwin –NISHA GUPTA 16. The World of Steinbeck: Myths, Legends and Literary Naturalism –S.D. SHARMA 17. The Portrayal of a Nation Threatened by War in Tennessee Williams’s The Demolition Downtown –K. BALACHANDRAN 18. Intertextuality of Dramatic Discourse: A Study through Miller’s All My Sons and Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire –RAM NARAYAN PANDA 19. Humanism in Hersey’s The War Lover –AVIRAM SINGH 20. Ethical Concern in Miller –GAJENDRA KUMAR 21. Autobiographical Elements in Sylvia Plath’s Short Story “Ocean 1212-W” –N.B. MASAL 22. “Hybridity” in Kosinski’s The Hermit of 69th Street –AMIYA KUMAR PATRA 23. Elusiveness of Self in Mark Strand’s Poetry –DILIP BHATT 24. Death in Sandra Lunnon’s Poetry –SUSHEEL KUMAR SHARMA Contributors