Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Literature with Indian Devotional Writing

This volume introduces the intellectual and imaginative worlds of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature alongside Indian devotional writing. It brings reflection, spiritual inquiry, ambition and ethical life into a connected course of study. Bacon and Montaigne offer routes into the essay; Bunyan and Macbeth invite attention to spiritual struggle and moral choice. Meera, Kabir and Tiruvalluvar widen the discussion through devotion and self-knowledge. Literary foundations, critical study, summaries, glossaries and answered practice help students move from understanding a text to explaining its concerns.