Books in the Literary Criticism in Perspective series

The first thorough study in English of the reception of Doeblin's novels, written by one of the foremost Doeblin scholars.

Survey of the criticism devoted to Kafka's The Castle, his final novel.

Wide-ranging survey of the critical reaction provoked by Mann's Doctor Faustus.

A study of the controversy-filled scholarship on Poe from the time of his death to the present.

Overview of the critical history of the German novella.

An examination of the past half-century's critical reassessments of one of the most-studied American poets.

A study of the literary criticism of the famous and influential German play fragment Woyzeck.

The story of the critical reception of Crane's great Civil War novel from its publication to the present, with particular attention to the effects of later wars on that reception.

An examination of how Faulkner's work has been analyzed, elucidated, and promoted by a massive body of scholarly work spanning over seven decades.

A contextualizing overview of the polarized critical reception of Willa Cather, one of the pre-eminent US authors of the twentieth-century.

Survey of reception of German poet Hoelderlin in French criticism and literature, with particular attention to Heidegger and his followers.

A pathbreaking consideration of the intertwined critical responses to Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass, giants of abolitionist literature.

Examines the major divisions in criticism of this major African American writer, paying particular attention to the way each critical period defines Baldwin and his work for its own purposes.

Traces Hemingway's critical fortunes over the ninety years of his prominence, telling us something about what we value in literature and why scholarly reputations rise and fall.

How and why Fitzgerald's novel, initially called a failure, has come to be considered a masterwork of American literature and part of the fabric of the culture.