Surveying the key debates about a novel which has provoked an immensely rich critical response, the extracts and essays included here examine Great Expectations in structural, …
The huge range of critical and academic debate about this monster of a novel confirms "Moby-Dick"'s status as a vital and exhilarating exploration of the role of American ideology …
With excerpts from interviews and reviews, an exploration of the historical documents and slave narrative traditions on which Morrison drew, and an insightful juxtaposition of …
More critical writing exists on The Great Gatsby than on any other work of American fiction. This Columbia Critical Guide introduces and contextualizes the key critical debates …
A guide to and excerpts from the critical commentary on the only novel this particular Brontd (1818-48) published. Stoneman (English, U. of Hull) arranges the commentary into …
This collection of reviews of the writing of Sylvia Plath is arranged in sections on reviews of The Colossus and Ariel , unifying strategies and early feminist readings of the …
Two of Virginia Woolf's most influential works, To the Lighthouse and The Waves reveal the quintessence of her experimentation with narrative technique in depicting the passage of …
