Literature: History & Criticism

Born in the final years of the seventeenth century, and dying a decade before the beginning of the French Revolution, Voltaire was a quintessential...

Having endured an initially frigid critcal reception, personal struggles with addiction, and a mid-life accident that nearly killed him, Stephen Ki...

So many male critics have attacked Ireland's contemporary women poets — whether through hostile reviews, outright silence, or condescending praise ...

Today, a multiplicity of feminist approaches has become an integral part of the fields of German literary and cultural studies. This comprehensive ...

From his earliest success in 1945 with the poignant The Glass Menagerie, until his final curtain call with the 1979 production of The Two-Character...

The writers of Gothic literature reflect in their works the concerns and fears of the times in which they were created. These fears, in turn, desta...

Often thought of as the quintessential poet of New England, Robert Frost is one of the most widely read American poets of the 20th century. He was ...

The only book to treat in detail all the plays of contemporary English playwright David Storey, this study focuses on the major themes found in his...

Reviewers and critics have not always agreed on how well the science fiction label fit Ray Bradbury, but the immense popularity of works like The M...

Supplemented with useful and wide-ranging author and subject indexes, this bibliography surveys the enormous quantity of books published on languag...

As the world's greatest author, Shakespeare has attracted attention from scholars and laypersons alike. But more and more people have questioned wh...

Teachers, media specialists, parents, and other adults who work with adolescents must recognize that our society influences who teenagers are and h...

Benjamin Rush (1746-1813) exerted a remarkably wide-ranging influence on the medical, political, and social life of the emerging American nation. H...

While African literature is presently enjoying much attention from the scholarly community, its heritage and identity are becoming less clearly def...

This study reclaims a lost body of theatrical work by focusing on four labor plays of the 1930s. These works dramatize union organizing efforts in ...

Best remembered as the author of Joseph Andrews (1742), Tom Jones (1749) and Amelia (1751), Henry Fielding was one of the most important pioneering...