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This collection of reviews and essays traces critical responses to the work of African American author, Chester Himes, between 1946 and 1996. It includes assessments of all his work, and an interview with Himes' brother that offers some corrective commentary on his autobiography.

This book brings together, for the first time, almost one hundred documents on her work, including contemporary reviews, letters, diary entries, the most important critical assessments, and several new pieces. The chapters that follow consist of chronologically arranged critical analyses of particular works by Radcliffe.

Through reviews and essays, this reference work summarizes the critical reception of Carlyle's writings from their initial appearance to the present day. Born in 1795, Thomas Carlyle was one of the preeminent figures of Victorian letters.

From the publication of his first major volume in 1946, Lord Weary's Castle, to a few years before his death in 1977, Robert Lowell held sway as the premier English-language poet of his time.

His writings reflect his experiences growing up in the poverty and racial strife of the South, and his thoughts on major social issues. This volume traces the critical reception of Wright's major works, from the publication of Native Son to the present day.

Eliot distinguished herself from other Victorian novelists through her realism, her use of an engaging narrator, and her indebtedness to thinkers such as Comte, Mill, and Darwin. The essays assembled in this book represent the best criticism of Eliot's novels from the 19th century to the present day.

The selections of criticism in this anthology reveal the social, cultural, and economic contexts of the writings of Tillie Olsen. The pieces link her with traditional American literary figures, and relate her to socialist feminist literary tradition and the Jewish American tradition as well.

Joan Didion is a major contemporary American novelist and journalist whose works have popular appeal and are widely studied from a variety of literary perspectives as well as for philosophical, psychological, and political insights into the times and topics with which they deal.

The volume provides a clear and comprehensive assessment of Cheever's critical reputation both during his lifetime, as each of his books was published and reviewed, and retrospectively, by academics and literary historians who have sought to place Cheever's work in a larger literary context.

Extolled and maligned, Eugene O'Neill was unquestionably the first American playwright of international stature, and his major plays, such as The Iceman Cometh and Long Day's Journey Into Night, remain giants of the American stage.

Also included is a selective bibliography of modern scholarship. Among the early documents reprinted are contemporary news accounts of Hawthorne's dismissal from the Salem Custom House in June 1849, which provide the immediate background to The Custom House introduction in the story, the publisher James T.

By focusing on Reed's novels, this volume charts the critical response to his works over time. The book is organized by decade, with each section containing book reviews and articles. Reed's concern with artistic freedom is explored and the evolution of his neo-hoodoo aesthetic is examined.

This text traces the critical reception of the writings of William Styron since the 1950s. All of Styron's novels are covered, with an emphasis on "Lie Down in Darkness", "The Confessions of Nat Turner" and "Sophie's Choice". A bibliography lists Styron's writings, along with critical studies.

Contains newspaper articles, book reviews and scholarly essays on "Huckleberry Finn" spanning the period from the early response in the 1880s, through the centennial celebration, to the present. An ABC-TV special on the centennial, "Huckleberry Finn: Literature or Racist Trash", is included.

Though he experimented with literary forms, his works are within the 20th century intellectual tradition of alienation, isolation, and pessimism. Through essays and reviews, this reference book documents the critical response to Beckett's poetry, fiction, and drama from his earliest works to the public reaction to his death in 1989.

Eudora Welty holds a prominent position among Southern writers, receiving critical attention in publications that scan a wide range of interests. The rest of the volume presents representative selections of criticism from the initial reception of Welty's work to the present day.

So too, his texts have engaged some of the best critical minds, and scholarship on Lawrence and his works continues to grow. This reference chronicles the critical response to his writings. A chronology presents the highlights in his publishing career, while an introductory essay summarizes the major trends in Lawrence criticism.

Ralph Ellison's literary career began in 1937 with the publication of his review of Waters Edward Turpin's These Low Grounds. Over the next 15 years he published 10 short stories and 37 essays on literary, cultural, and political topics.

As the author of The Women of Brewster Place, Linden Hills, Mama Day, and Bailey's Cafe, Gloria Naylor is widely respected as one of the most important contemporary African American women writers.

But despite the publication of four new editions of the book from 1989 to 1997, its place in the American literary canon is precarious. Through reprints of early reviews and scholarly articles, along with original essays and reviews of the four most recent major editions, this volume traces the critical reception of Steinbeck's novel.

He is best remembered today as the author of classic works of science fiction, such as The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, and The First Men in the Moon.

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

These pieces treat various aspects of Chandler's art, such as his writing style, the nature of the hard-boiled detective hero, the relation of Chandler to his contemporaries, Los Angeles as the setting for his fiction, studies of individual novels, and analyses of films of Chandler's works.

This volume brings together book reviews, criticism, interviews, biographical materials, and bibliography spanning the entire corpus of Beattie's fiction to date---five short-story collections and four novels published through 1991.