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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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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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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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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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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.

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

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The volume is divided into several sections on broad topics. Each section is organized chronologically and traces both the development of Capote's talents and the evolution of critical attitudes toward his work.

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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.

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The Dark Descent assembles fifteen illuminating original essays that consider King from a variety of intellectual orientations, addressing the major novels and central thematic concerns that represent King's contributions to American letters and elevating King scholarship to a new level of critical discourse.

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This timely book treats Hardy's recurring use of one of the major informing myths of Western culturethat of a collision between a solar god and an earth goddess.

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This encyclopedic guide to the American dime novel contains over 1,200 entries on serial publications, major writers and editors, publishers, and major characters, fiction genres, themes, and locales. A discussion of dime novel scholarship includes a selected directory of libraries and museums with significant collections of dime novels.

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One of the greatest writers of all time, Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) is best known for such masterpieces as Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. Also included are entries for major writers and thinkers who influenced his works, and for ideas and themes that figure prominently in his writings.

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While literary utopias depict an ideal society and reflect an optimistic belief in the triumph of humanity and government, dystopias present a society marked by suffering caused by human and political evils. Later chapters consider dystopias after World War II, contemporary communist dystopias, and postmodernist dystopias in the West.

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