Literature: History & Criticism

Zora Neale Hurston is considered one of the most controversial yet prominent figures associated with the Harlem Renaissance. This introductory stud...

Young adult readers have special needs and concerns, and librarians have become increasingly interested in selecting books suitable for them. This ...

Time is one of the most prominent themes in the relatively young genre of children's literature, for the young, like adults, want to know about the...

Postmodernism, as a mode of the contemporary short story, has been clearly established and recognized by short story theorists. But postmodern theo...

American women writers have long been creating an extraordinarily diverse and vital body of fiction, particularly in the decades since World War II...

H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) is commonly regarded as the leading author of supernatural fiction in the 20th century. He is distinctive among writers...

Since the publication of his first novel, The Chosen, Chaim Potok has been regarded as one of the most important Jewish-American writers of our tim...

The Irish Renaissance encompassed one of the western world's most powerful dramatic movements. But most lists of productions have only included cer...

Dickens' 13th novel has remained pre-eminent among readers for good reasons. Great Expectations (published originally as a weekly serial from 1860 ...

The English novel written between 1700 and 1740 remains a comparatively neglected area. In addition to Daniel Defoe, whose Robinson Crusoe and Moll...

Arthur Conan Doyle is often perceived as the quintessential Englishman, patriotically devoted to the Crown and the empire's defender and apologist....

The influence of science fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft is widely felt in modern literature; authors from Robert E. Howard to Stephen King can clai...

For decades now literary critics have universally praised Faulkner as one of the greatest writers of the modern era, yet students assigned to read ...

The continuing cultural encounters of the Americas, between European and indigenous cultures, and between scientific materialism and premodern supe...

Best known as the author of such works as King Solomon's Mines and She, H. Rider Haggard was one of the most popular writers of the late-Victorian ...

Caribbean poetry written in English has been attracting growing amounts of scholarly attention. The first substantial annotated bibliography of pri...

Speculations about new medical advances have been a crucial aspect of science fiction since its origins in the 19th century, when such novels as Fr...

If Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-1844) is, as Steven Marcus has claimed, the first novel of Dickens' maturity, it is also true, as Robert E. Lougy has ob...

Since the 1960s American and Western European gays have set the agenda for sexual liberation and defined its emergence. Western models of homosexua...