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This book reads twentieth-century autobiography and oral histories spatially to unearth how writers and activists understood social mobility as a collective process. In so doing, they constructed a counter-mythology to the American dream myth of individualism.

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Though she published several novels, short fiction and erotica, Anais Nin is best known for her captivating diary, which commanded more attention in unpublished form than her published fiction. The selections in this volume trace the critical response to Nin's works from the 1930s to the present.

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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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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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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 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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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.

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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.

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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.

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Shomette collects representative reviews and critical commentary on each of Wolfe's 11 major works, including essays by novelists Kurt Vonnegut, Jr and John Hersey, scholars Alan Trachtenberg and Albert Bergesen, journalist Garry Wills, and critic Hilton Kramer.

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Through a diversity of primary source resources that include works by politicians and literary figures, book reviews, and interviews, this book enables student readers to better understand literature of the Great Depression in context through original documents.

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The volume approaches Greeleys novels by comparing him to the 19th-century French writer Honor de Balzac. Like Balzacnow a major canonical authorGreeley has created a world of numerous fictional persons, mapped the details of his culture, and explored the place of Catholicism in contemporary life.

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For a brief period of 20 years between the two World Wars, this pattern changed dramatically, with a flood of German books in translation threatening to engulf the British book market and triggering violently emotional reactions in the literary pages of the popular press.