Literature: History & Criticism

Most critics of southern novelist Eudora Welty have analyzed her work with a primary focus on her southern background. In Serious Daring from Withi...

This comprehensive and sophisticated feminist analysis contradicts the negative evaluations of earlier feminist critics to define Oates' feminist a...

This unique volume provides a bibliography and analysis of American women's literary interpretations of war and peace during the twentieth century....

This comprehensive, detailed study of Wilder's entire dramatic oeuvre is the only one to place the works in their broad aesthetic and philosophical...

Pearl Buck made important contributions as a humanitarian and an advocate of racial equality and women's rights. She did much to change American at...

Derogation of nineteenth-century women novelists was often the immediate response to their works. While modern feminist scholarship has repudiated ...

While literary utopias depict an ideal society and reflect an optimistic belief in the triumph of humanity and government, dystopias present a soci...

Irish playwrights such as Sean O'Casey, George Bernard Shaw, and John Millington Synge have made enormous contributions to world drama. This refere...

Written for librarians, teachers, and researchers, this is the second five-year supplement to the authors' Dictionary of American Children's Fictio...

This work focuses on Marlowe's works as an index of the major transformation of Elizabethan theatrical practices. In the opening chapter, Cole revi...

This comprehensive, annotated bibliography of works by and about Caribbean women novelists from 1950 to the present covers novelists from all Carib...

India has a rich literary assemblage produced by its many different regional traditions, religious faiths, ethnic subcultures and linguistic groups...

This study examines James Herriot's five major books as carefully crafted volumes of autobiography based on the building block of the short story. ...

From 1660 through approximately 1830, the alteration of Shakespearean texts to comply with contemporary dramaturgy was a normal occurrence, and the...

One hundred years after his creation by Bram Stoker, Dracula is still fascinating us. This study traces the changing nature of film representations...

Until recently, French women playwrights had received almost no critical attention and their works were for the most part completely unknown, but t...

Proclaimed by H.L. Mencken as one of the great masterpieces of the world and by Ernest Hemingway as the source of all modern American literature, A...

The subject of divided critical opinion because of the experimental nature of his writings and his use of radical subject matter, Jerzy Kosinski, a...

Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, Robert Lowell has left a prodigious literary legacy that includes several verse play...

Of all the different sub-genres of oral prose fiction developed by the Yoruba of Nigeria, the trickster tale is the most popular, especially among ...

Multicultural fiction is an essential part of the American literary landscape. This reference helps scholars, teachers, and librarians choose signi...

This annotated work represents the first bibliography since the AIDS epidemic began to unite scientific literature about prostitutes. The annotated...

In his youth a prominent figure of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, Arna Wendell Bontemps matured into a renaissance man in the broadest sense,...

At the close of the nineteenth century, American youths developed a growing interest in electricity and its applications, machines, and gadgetry. W...

Though one of the most significant American writers of the 20th century, Saul Bellow has continually elicited conflicting responses from critics. S...

This unique volume examines the evolution of British historical drama from the birth of modern British drama with John Osborne's Look Back in Anger...

Almost a half century after his death in 1953, the Welsh author Dylan Thomas continues to capture the attention of scholars and critics. Though he ...

The diary format has long been utilized by novelists as a means of imparting reality to fiction. This volume analyzes the forms of diary fiction em...

Despite protestations to the contrary, myth criticism in literature is not dead: witness the well over 1000 illuminating sources published between ...

This acclaimed biography of Margaret Fuller, first published nearly five decades ago, is now available in a new, expanded edition. Based on Fuller'...

A new edition of the definitive bibliography of the modern spy-adventure-intrigue novel. First published in 1976, this edition has been thoroughly ...

A biographically based study of George Bernard Shaw and his milieu, this book offers a non-laudatory reading of Shaw's economic practices and theor...

Joel Chandler Harris was internationally famous in his own time and has a surprisingly broad scholarly and popular following in ours. His portraits...

H. G. Wells was one of the most influential authors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best remembered today as the author of classic...

The extraordinary flowering of Southern literary talent in the early twentieth century, the Southern Literary Renascence, has continued virtually u...

This study analyzes the role of the sentenia (proverb, maxim, adage) in the rhetorical process of invention and, particularly, Shakespeare's use of...

This is a study of novels by Chester Himes, Malcolm Braly, and others on the experience of doing time in American prisons. The authors are all conv...

Sartre has more to say about Evil—its origins in, effects on modern man, and how to fight it—than any other philosopher in the 20th century. In thi...

Demastes, in his interesting study of the work of David Rabe, David Mamet, Sam Shepard, Charles Fuller, Beth Henley, and Marsha Norman, examines ho...

The year 1988 was notable for being the centennial of playwright Eugene O'Neill's birth and a time of unprecedented democratization in the People's...