Contents: Preface. 1. Ordeal of an aspiring mind in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus/Rajiv K. Mallik. 2. The astronomical philosophy of Shakespeare's Hamlet: a critical study/S.K. Paul. 3. Metaphysical poets and their divine songs in various form/Anita Ghosh. 4. Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard: a critical appraisal/Amar Nath Prasad. 5. A Vedantic interpretation of Wordsworth's Doctrine of Pantheism: a theoretical study of his philosophical poems/Radhakant Mishra. 6. Jane Austen as a Kitchen Artist/Saloni Prasad. 7. Tess in Hardy/Ranjana Chanana. 8. The social imagination of Charles Dickens with special reference to 'Bleak House' and 'Hard Times'/Gulrez Roshan Rahman. 9. Method and technique in the novels of Charles Dickens/Pradip Kumar Jha. 10. T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land: a quest poem/P.K. Chaudhary. 11. The language of Eliot's Religious Verse/R.P. Singh. 12. Mystical symbols in Yeat's poetry/Tasneem Anjum. 13. The travel theme in the novels of E.M. Forster/Jitendra Prasad Singh 'Padma'. 14. Ironic vision of modern life in Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One/Harbir Singh Randhawa. 15. Symbolism in the novels of William Golding/Mamata Rani. 16. Existential motifs of thought in Greene's Fiction/Sunita Sinha. 17. 'Greeneland' as the defining feature of transtextuality in Graham Greene/Shibu Simon. 18. The revolt against metaphysical aesthetics in "Principles of Literary Criticism"/Anita Ghosh. Index.
"Reassessing British Literature, a collection of more than a dozen scholarly articles contributed by different scholars and teachers of English Literature is a modest attempt to evaluate the British Literature. The included articles in this anthology are concerned with Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, the Metaphysical poets, Thomas Gray, William Wordsworth, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, E.M. Forster, Evelyn Waugh, William Golding, Graham Greene and I.A. Richards. All the papers are exhaustive, comprehensive and critical study of the matter concerned.
It is hoped that the book will certainly get a warm reception in the hands of the people of literary interest. It will also prove to be an asset for the research scholars and the students of the higher classes." (jacket)
