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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.

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Dashiell Hammett is one of the most popular American writers of detective fiction. This collection includes contemporary reviews of his work from the 1920s and 1930s, as well as essays representing diverse critical approaches and assessments.

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The 57 pieces collected in this volume were chosen to represent all sides and perspectives in the evolving critical opinion of Caldwell's work. The items are grouped in sections representing three chronological periods that encompass the prevailing critical moods concerning his writings.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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This work gathers commentaries, parodies and reminiscences of Gertrude Stein - one of America's most controversial modernist authors. Her precarious position in the eyes of the American press is examined, and previously unpublished sources are presented.

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This volume provides comprehensive coverage of the critical response to Gloria Naylor's works.

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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.

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A look at how Reed's fiction defies popular academic conceptions of what American writers, particularly black American writers, ought to be.

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This volume contains the key pieces of criticism on London's major works arranged chronologically to reconstruct the literary debate on London's work from earliest reviews to recent analyses.

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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.

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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.

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This reference book traces the critical reception of Paradise Lost from the 17th century to the present.

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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.

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While Kamau Brathwaite is renown for his achievements as a world literary, historical, and cultural critic, his Anglophone Caribbean poetry is the cornerstone of his legacy.

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Since her untimely death from tuberculosis in 1923, her writings have drawn increasingly varied critical attention.

Through a collection of essays and reviews, this volume traces the critical response to Mansfield's writings.

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This volume traces the critical response to his work.

Included in this book are reviews and critical essays on Vonnegut's writings from the roots of his career to the present day.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.