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Literary Criticism in Perspective
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Volume 79 in this series
Examines both academic and popular assessments of Conan Doyle's work, giving pride of place to the Holmes stories and their adaptations, and also attending to the wide range of his published work.
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Volume 78 in this series
The first book to trace the critical reception of the great African American woman writer, attending not only to her fiction but to her nonfiction and critical writings.
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Volume 77 in this series
The story of the critical reception of Crane's great Civil War novel from its publication to the present, with particular attention to the effects of later wars on that reception.
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Volume 76 in this series
A contextualizing overview of the polarized critical reception of Willa Cather, one of the pre-eminent US authors of the twentieth-century.
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Volume 75 in this series
This first book-length study of Pound criticism investigates not just what critics have had to say about Pound but also why they have asked the questions they have asked.
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Volume 74 in this series
Tracks the genesis and evolution of Twain's reputation as a writer, revealing how and why the writer has been "under fire" since the advent of his career.
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Volume 73 in this series
An examination of how Faulkner's work has been analyzed, elucidated, and promoted by a massive body of scholarly work spanning over seven decades.
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Volume 72 in this series
A pathbreaking consideration of the intertwined critical responses to Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass, giants of abolitionist literature.
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Volume 71 in this series
Traces Hemingway's critical fortunes over the ninety years of his prominence, telling us something about what we value in literature and why scholarly reputations rise and fall.
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Volume 70 in this series
Examines the major divisions in criticism of this major African American writer, paying particular attention to the way each critical period defines Baldwin and his work for its own purposes.
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Volume 69 in this series
A study of the journalistic and academic reception of the writings of one of the great American writers of the late twentieth century.
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Volume 68 in this series
Changing critical views of Hemingway's great novel of the Lost Generation, from publication to the present.
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Volume 67 in this series
An accessible and highly readable guide to the story of Melville criticism as it has developed over the past century and a half.
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Volume 66 in this series
How and why Fitzgerald's novel, initially called a failure, has come to be considered a masterwork of American literature and part of the fabric of the culture.
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Volume 65 in this series
The process of Hawthorne's scholarly canonization, and the ongoing critical and cultural discourse on his works.
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Volume 64 in this series
A comprehensive look at the academic criticism of Jane Austen from her time down to the present.
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Volume 63 in this series
The story of the surprisingly fluctuating critical reputation of one of the great writers of the English language.
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Volume 62 in this series
An examination of the past half-century's critical reassessments of one of the most-studied American poets.
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Volume 61 in this series
Comprehensive survey and analysis of the scholarship and criticism on perhaps the greatest American writer.
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Volume 60 in this series
A study of the controversy-filled scholarship on Poe from the time of his death to the present.
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Volume 59 in this series
A literary-historical look at the scholarly criticism of Goethe's great first novel.
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Volume 58 in this series
Explores the critics' reaction to the pre-eminent Victorian poet from his lifetime to the present.
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Volume 57 in this series
An analysis of the scholarly criticism of the great Viennese writer up to the year 2000.
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Volume 56 in this series
A study of the most significant international scholarship on Musil's famous novel.
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Volume 55 in this series
The first thorough study in English of the reception of Döblin's novels, written by one of the foremost Döblin scholars.
