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Literary Movements: A Complete Atlas: Classicism through Digital Literature
Paperback
Series: The Literary Atlas
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 20 2026
Pages: 388
Weight: 1.98
Height: 0.80 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Book 13 of The Literary Atlas Series Dr. Bismi Sainudeen
The definitive single-volume guide to every major literary movement in English - from Classical Antiquity to Digital Literature - designed for undergraduate and postgraduate students and aligned to UGC NET/JRF examination patterns.
Forty-eight literary movements across eight historical parts, each examined through a structured seven-section chapter format:
- Historical, social, political, and cultural context
- First principles deconstruction - what each movement rejected and proposed
- Defining characteristics with detailed explanations
- How to identify the movement in any literary text (essential for unseen passage questions)
- Key writers and representative works - full biographical profiles and in-depth work analyses
- Key critical terms defined and illustrated from primary texts
- 10-12 UGC NET/JRF pattern MCQs per chapter with full explanations, plus short answer and long essay models
- Part One: The Ancient and Classical Foundations - Homer, Sophocles, Aristotle, Longinus
- Part Two: Medieval to Early Modern - Chaucer, Langland, Shakespeare, Donne, Marvell
- Part Three: Restoration to Romanticism - Swift, Pope, Defoe, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley
- Part Four: The Victorian Age - Dickens, George Eliot, Hardy, Wilde, Pater
- Part Five: Modernism and Its Variants - Eliot, Woolf, Joyce, Hughes, Owen, Bloomsbury
- Part Six: Mid-Twentieth Century - Beckett, Larkin, Osborne, Pinter, Plath, Ginsberg
- Part Seven: Postmodernism and Theory - Rushdie, Carter, Achebe, Walcott, Heaney, Rhys
- Part Eight: Contemporary and Digital - McEwan, Ishiguro, Mantel, Adichie, Roy, Hamid
- Key Works Summaries - plot synopses and critical context for all major texts discussed
- Glossary of Literary Terms - 120+ entries, alphabetically arranged, each defined with textual examples
- Critical Frameworks Quick Reference - nine major critical schools (New Criticism, Structuralism, Deconstruction, Feminist Criticism, Postcolonial Theory, Psychoanalytic Criticism, New Historicism, Reader-Response Theory, Ecocriticism), each with core method and three fully worked examples of applied literary analysis
- What Comes Next - a reading guide to all thirteen volumes of The Literary Atlas Series
- References and Further Reading - primary and secondary texts organised by period and movement
Each of the nine critical frameworks includes three fully worked examples demonstrating exactly how to apply the framework to a specific literary text - from New Criticism applied to Donne's The Flea and Eliot's Prufrock, to Postcolonial Theory applied to Conrad, Achebe, and Rhys; from Feminist Criticism applied to Jane Eyre, Woolf, and Plath, to Psychoanalytic Criticism applied to Frankenstein, Hamlet, and Kubla Khan. These are complete model analyses, not summaries - they show students precisely how critical thinking is performed.
Designed For- UGC NET/JRF aspirants - every chapter is structured around examination requirements; the MCQ banks, identification guides, and critical term definitions are calibrated to the NET/JRF pattern
- Undergraduate (BA) students - comprehensive coverage of every movement
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