Books by Suman Gupta

A study of conceptualizations and applications of the idea of democracy in international and trans-national politics, which uses a politically realist methodology. Divided into two parts, this book tests these against specific real world events, using the invasion and occupation of Iraq by a US-UK led coalition as a case study.

A provocative and highly original exploration of suicides that have gained wider political resonance, and the challenge this poses to the liberal order.

This book retraces the formation of modern English Studies by departing from philological scholarship along two lines: in terms of institutional histories and in terms of the separation of literary criticism and linguistics.

In the run-up to, during and after the invasion of Iraq a large number of literary texts addressing that context were produced, circulated and viewed as taking a position for or against the invasion, or contributing political insights. This book provides an in-depth survey of such texts to examine what they reveal about the condition of literature.

This book discusses the political and social presumptions ingrained in the texts of the Harry Potter series and examines the manner in which they have been received in different contexts and media. The 2nd edition also contains extensive new material which comments on the later books and examines the impact of the phenomenon across the world.

State of the art overview of the relationship between globalization studies and literature and literary studies. The first book length treatment of this cutting edge area, pitched for undergraduate students.