The story of the events that led Mary Shelley to write her Frankenstein story is now almost as well known as the plot itself. The tale began to take shape in 1816 as a result of ghost-story-telling…| Literary Theory and Criticism
First published in The Cornhill Magazine from January 1860 through April 1861, Anthony Trollope’s Framley Parsonage was the fourth in his Barsetshire novels sequence. That sequence had opened in 18…| Literary Theory and Criticism
Tahar Ben Jelloun in The Sacred Night depicts Moroccan society and rails against social injustice, sexual and religious hypocrisy, gender inequalities, patriarchy, and women’s oppression. He convey…| Literary Theory and Criticism
The River Between is the first novel, though the second published work, by author Ngugi wa Thiong’o. The book represents a foray into the complex exploration of intracultural Gikuyu struggle expres…| Literary Theory and Criticism