Contains fourteen critical essays in which contributors examine various aspects of the Victorian novel, discussing authors, feminine heroines, sexuality, class and money, and other topics, and including a chronology and bibliography.
Presents seventeen analytical essays on Greek drama, covering the evolution of the tragedy and comedy and comparing the major dramatists' treatment of such themes as madness and religion.
Presents nineteen essays on plays, themes, and genres from Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, discussing such writers as Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Marston, Thomas Dekker, John Webster, Thomas Kyd, and William Shakespeare.
Presents thirteen essays on important American authors from the 1830s to the 1860s, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, and Herman Melville.
Presents a collection of critical essays on British fiction produced during the Edwardian and Georgian period from 1880 to 1914 and reflecting Victorian society, women's roles, and the advance of technology.
Contains fourteen essays in which the authors examine specific characteristics and works of eighteenth-century English fiction, and includes a chronology.
Contains a collection of essays that survey the major works of modern American drama, and includes critical examination of the works of Eugene O'Neil, Tennessee Williams, and Arthur Miller, among others.
Presents a collection of essays that analyze some of the major pieces of literature of the 1920s and 1930s including "The Grapes of Wrath, " "The Great Gatsby, " and "The Sun Also Rises, "along with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Contains fifteen critical essays in which the authors examine specific writers and works that define the literary period known as American naturalism. Includes a chronology and introduction.
