Mastering western texts essays on literature and society

Includes bibliographical references.

Historic readings and the cutting edge of laughter : re-viewing A.N. Kaul's Comic agon, an essay without footnotes / Ahmer Nadeem Anwer -- A.N. Kaul's Theory of the Critical Romance : the repudiation of an American ideology / Tapan Basu -- South to a very old place : Toni Morrison's Song of solomon / Madhu Dubey -- Berak her will, and bruise no bone sir : colonial and sexual mastery in Fletcher's The island princess / Ania Loomba -- Mercantil gothic : the case of Lillo's The London merchant / Suvir Kaul -- The radicals, the press, and the law, 1764-1767 / Brijraj Sngh -- Dickens, Thackeray, and the "Lanuage of radicalism" / Sambudha Sen -- Shadows of futurity : the uses of abstractness in Shelly's poetry / Shirshendu Chakrabarti -- Sydney Owenson, romantic orientalism, colonial resistance / Gautam Chakravarty -- Bangla sahitya and the vicissitudes of Bengali identity in the latter half of the Nineteenth century / Pradip Kumar Datta

-- Ireland, India, and the poetics of internationalism / Gauri Viswanathan -- Tragic love and cultural conventions : reading The well of loneliness in India and in the USA / Ruth Vanita --Rethinking the relations between literature and society : Jonathan Swift's Tale of a tub and A.N. Kaul's lietrary criticism / Rashmi Bhatnagar.

Festshcrift honoring A.N. Kaul, critic and teacher of Western literature; comprises contributed articles on Western literature.