history and criticism

Traces the life of a popular novelist, from his childhood as an avid reader to his current success as a creator of horror fiction.

A photographic chronicle of jazz in the twentieth century, providing information about the history, performers, and style of the music.

Discusses the key features of Radical Change--a theory that can be used to identify books with characteristics reflecting the interactivity, connectivity, and access of the digital world--considering changes in forms and formats, perspectives, and boundaries, and including guidelines for evaluating books in the digital age.

Presents the history of Greek and Roman theater with a timeline and bibliography for further study.

Explores the roots and history of jazz, discussing how it first appeared and developed, its musical elements, and significant performers.

A retrospective of the science fiction genre, covering books, films, magazines, and comics. Looks at how each decade has viewed the distant future, and includes over 100 biographies of past and upcoming writers.

Describes the influence of the varied life patterns of early America upon the development of popular and patriotic music, slave songs, ballads, etc. Covers the first days of settlement to the early 1800's.

Explores newspaper comic strip art from the 1890's to the present.

Examines the origins of fairy beliefs, the different types and characteristics of fairies, and the legends and stories about them, with a glossary of fairies and indexes of tale types and motifs.