English Literature

A Gresham College lecture by Professor Amanda Vickery on the topic "What did Eighteenth-Century Men Want"

The forgotten Muslim heroes who fought for Britain in the trenches Vivek Chaudhary (For the Guardian) Link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/12/forgotten-muslim-heroes-fought-for-britain-first-world-war A biting wind whips across the rolling countryside, cutting through the crowd gathered on a hillside overlooking Notre Dame de Lorette, France�s national war cemetery. Huddled

How Colonial Violence Came Home: The Ugly Truth of the First World War By Pankaj Mishra (For Guardian Newspaper) For original, click on the link below Link: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/10/how-colonial-violence-came-home-the-ugly-truth-of-the-first-world-war?CMP=fb_gu "Today on the Western Front,� the German sociologist Max Weber wrote in September 1917, there �stands a

Note: This post is a collection of three various articles, the link of which is given in the sections. It is only text version Section A LINK: http://missdaydreamersplace.blogspot.in/2014/04/oliver-twist-by-charles-dickens-1838.html In an unnamed town a penniless young woman stumbles into a workhouse, gives birth to a baby boy, and then dies soon after. The parish beadle, Mr Bumble,

UGC-NET English: Dec 2014 1. This work was a satire in Ottava rima, attacking George III and Robert Southey. Identify the poem : (A) Dunciad (B) The Vision of Judgment (C) Childe Harold�s Pilgrimage (D) Alastor Answer:(B) 2. Here�s a famous exchange from Arthur Conan Doyle�s Silver Blaze : �Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention ?� �To the curious incident of the

Source: https://onehundredpages.wordpress.com/shakespeares-hamlet-context/ Shakespeare�s Hamlet: Context 1. Shakespeare's Theater In Shakespeare�s time, a stage wasn�t just one type of space; plays had to be versatile. The same play might be produced in an outdoor playhouse, an indoor theater, a royal palace�or, for a company on tour, the courtyard of an inn. In any of these settings, men