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Examines both academic and popular assessments of Conan Doyle's work, giving pride of place to the Holmes stories and their adaptations, and also attending to the wide range of his published work.

Alfred Tennyson was a poet all his life, writing more than a thousand works in virtually every poetic genre. Considered by his Victorian contemporaries the pre-eminent poet of the age, he has become a canonical figure who is widely read and studied today. Consequently, his poems appear on the syllabi of both survey courses in Victorian literature as well as upper-division and graduate-level topics courses that cover Victorian studies or addres...

Hemingway burst on the literary scene in the 1920s with spare, penetrating short stories and brilliant novels. Soon he was held as a standard for modern writers. Meanwhile, he used his celebrity to create a persona like the stoic, macho heroes of his fiction. After a decline during the 1930s and 1940s, he came roaring back with The Old Man and the Sea in 1952. Two years later he received the Nobel Prize. While his popularity waxed and waned du...

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This collection includes twelve provocative essays from a diverse group of international scholars, who utilize a range of interdisciplinary approaches to analyze “real” and “representational” animals that stand out as culturally significant to Victorian literature and culture. Essays focus on a wide range of canonical and non-canonical Victorian writers, including Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Anna Sewell, Emily Bronte, James Thomson, Chr...

From the publication in 1958 of his first book, The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures, the American writer John Updike attracted an international readership. His books have been translated into twenty-three languages. He had a strong following in the United Kingdom, where his books were routinely reviewed in all the leading national newspapers. In Germany, France, Italy, and other countries too, his books were discussed in major publica...

The creator of Louisiana detective Dave Robicheaux and characters based on his own family, James Lee Burke has used the mystery genre to explore enduring issues such as the nature of evil and the responsibility an individual has to his family and society at large. This companion is designed for general readers and scholars interested in Burke's work.

Among the most important English novelists, Jane Austen is unusual because she is esteemed not only by academics but by the reading public. Her novels continue to sell well, and films adapted from her works enjoy strong box-officesuccess. The trajectory of Austen criticism is intriguing, especially when one compares it to that of other nineteenth-century English writers. At least partly because she was a woman in the early nineteenth century, ...

Alfred Tennyson: The Critical Legacy explores the critics' reaction to the work of the nineteenth-century English poet most closely associated with the Victorian era. Perhaps more than any other Victorian poet, Tennyson's reputation has waxed and waned in the century since his death. He has been alternatively sanctified and vilified for his choice of subject matter, social outlook, morality, or techniques of versification. His reputation has w...

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A comprehensive look at the academic criticism of Jane Austen from her time down to the present.

This Critical Insights volume on Pride and Prejudice is designed to provide students and nonspecialists in Austen studies an introduction to one of the most widely read novels of the past two centuries. New essays include a biography of Jane Austen, the critical reception of Pride and Prejudice, an examination of the novel's historical milieu, and a reading of the novel that stresses the importance Austen places on female education as a means ...

The story of the surprisingly fluctuating critical reputation of one of the great writers of the English language.

A study of the journalistic and academic reception of the writings of one of the great American writers of the late twentieth century.

ng other books, he has written volumes on Austen, Dickens, TennyTraces Hemingway's critical fortunes over the ninety years of his prominence, telling

Designed to give scholars a review of important twentieth-century criticism of significant novels written in Britain from the late seventeenth to the late nineteenth centuries.

Provides annotations to critical commentaries for more than eighty of the most widely read and taught poems by major and minor Victorian figures.

The works selected for inclusion in this bibliography have remained among the most read and studied in undergraduate classes on the novel or on Victorian literature. The bibliography is arranged alphabetically by author and title. For each author, a general bibliography is included. The citations provide references to readily accessible works that discuss the author's life and achievements, often providing comparisons with contemporaries or wi...

This is an eclectic collection of essays from a group of international scholars tackling various subjects on Victorian literature--from studies of specific authors such Charles Dickens' early and later works, Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, and novels by Thomas Hardy to more general discussions, such as the depictions of women in Victorian novels.

Masterplots was the first reference set published by Salem Press in 1949 and is the original work of literary reference offering plot summaries. Masterplots has become a staple in most libraries. Now, this brand-new edition, revised for the first time since 1996, adds over 400 new works and offers 20% new material. In addition, complimentary online access is being offered for the first time on our exclusive online platform, Salem Literature.