A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
20th-Century US Literature
General
Bloom, Harold. Twentieth-century American literature. New York : Chelsea House Publishers, 1985-1988.
Cunliffe, Marcus, ed. American Literature since 1900. (Sphere History of Literature in the English Language, 9). London: Sphere Books, 1975.
_____, ed. American Literature since 1900. (Penguin History of Literature, 9). Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Hoffmann, Daniel, ed. Harvard Guide to Contemporary American Writing. Cambridge (MA): Belknap, 1979.
Morley, Catherine. Modern American Literature. (Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature). Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, forthcoming 2010.
Miscellaneous
Aaron, Daniel. Writers on the Left: Episodes in American Literary Communism. New York: Harcourt, 1961.
Alvarez, A. Under Pressure: The Writer in Society: Eastern Europe and the USA. Essay.
American Writing Today. New York: New York UP, 1957.
Cohen, Sarah Blacher, ed. Comic Relief: Humor in Contemporary American Literature. Chicago: U of Illinois P, 1978.
Cowley, Malcolm. —And I Worked at the Writer's Trade: Chapters of Literary History, 1918-1978. New York: Viking, 1978.
Fiedler, Leslie A. Waiting for the End. 1964. (20th c. am. lit. and culture).
Fisher, Dexter, ed. The Third Woman: Minority Women Writers of the United States. Boston: Houghton, 1980.
González Groba, Constante, et al., eds. Travelling across Cultures / Viaxes interculturais: the Twentieth-Century American Experience: Actas IV Congreso Spanish Association for American Studies (SAAS), Santiago de Compostela, Marzo de 1999. (Cursos e congresos da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 122). Santiago de compostela : Universidade de Santiago de Compostela , 2000.
Jones, Howard M., and Richard M. Ludwig. Guide to American Literature and its Background since 1890. Cambridge (MA): Harvard UP, 1972.
Kazin, Alfred. Contemporaries. London: Secker, 1963.*
Langford, Richard E., Guy Owen and William E. Taylor, eds. Essays in Modern American Literature. Ed. Richard E. Langford, Guy Owen and William E. Taylor. DeLand (FL): Stetson UP, 1963.
Lewis, Fred Pattee. A History of American Literature since 1870. MJP Publishers, 2021.
Massa, Ann, and Alistair Stead. Forked Tongues? Comparing 20th-Century British and American Literature. Harlow: Longman, 1994.
Mendelson, Edward. Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers. New York Review Books, 2015.
Owen, David, and Cristina Pividori, eds. The Spectre of Defeat in Post-War British and US Literature. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021.
Piette, Adam, and Mark Rawlinson, eds. The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century British and American War Literature. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2012.
Rudin, Ernst, and Gert Buelens, eds. Deferring a Dream: Literary Sub-Versions of the American Columbiad. Basel: Birkhauser, 1994.
Tallack, Douglas. Twentieth Century America: The Intellectual and Cultural Context. London: Longman, 1991.
Tanner, Tony. Scenes of Nature, Signs of Man: Essays on 19th and 20th Century American Literature. (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, 31). Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989.
Usandizaga, Aránzazu. "Outside the Canon: Writers of the South." Proceedings of the 20th International AEDEAN Conference. Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona, Facultad de Filología, 1997. 73-84.*
Wilson, Edmund. Letters on Literature and Politics: 1912-1972. Ed. Elena Wilson. New York: Farrar, 1977.
Anthologies
Baym, Nina, Robert S. Levine, et al. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Vol. 1 (A & B), Vol. 2 (C, D & E) International Edition. Vol. A: Beginnings to 1820. Vol. B: 1820-1865. Vol. C: 1865-1914. Vol. D: 1914-1945. Vol. E: since 1945 (Int. Ed). New York: Norton, 2012.
Related works
Brookeman, Christopher. American Culture and Society since the 1930s. London: Macmillan, 1984.
Early 20th
Ammons, Elizabeth. Conflicting Stories: American Women Writers at the Turn into the Twentieth Century. New York: Oxford UP, 1991.
Berthoff, Warner. The Ferment of Realism: American Literature 1884-1919. New York: Free Press, 1965.
Brooks, Van Wyck. The Confident Years: 1885-1915. New York: Dutton, 1952.
_____. The Confident Years: 1885-1915. London: Readers Union/Dent, 1953.
Gardner, Sarah. Reviewing the South: The Literary Marketplace and the Southern Renaissance, 1920-1941. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2017.
Garland, Hamlin. Roadside Meeings. New York, 1930. (On Crane, 189-206).
Gunning, Sandra. Rape, Race, and Lynching: The Red Record of American Literature, 1890-1912. (Race and American Culture). New York: Oxford UP, 1996.
Hicks, Granville. The Great Tradition: An Interpretation of American Literature since the Civil War. New York, 1933. Rpt. New York: Times, 1972.
Howard, Maureeen, ed. Seven American Women Writers of the Twentieth Century: An Introduction. U of Minnesota P, 1977.
Kazin, Alfred. On Native Grounds: An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature. Garden City (NY): Doubleday, 1942.
_____. En tierra nativa: Interpretación de medio siglo de literatura norteamericana. Mexico: FCE, 1993.*
Lee, Brian. American Fiction 1865-1940. (Longman Literature in English Series). Harlow: Longman, 1987.
Lorenzo Modia, María Jesús. La literatura de Estados Unidos desde sus orígenes hasta la Primera Guerra Mundial. Madrid: Síntesis, 2006.
Martin, Jay. Harvests of Change: American Literature 1865-1914. New Jersey: Prentice, 1967.
Martin, Ronald E. "U.S. Authors and the Scientific Description of the World: A Study in Early Twentieth Century Cultural Change." In AEDEAN Select Papers in Language, Literature and Culture: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference. [U of Córdoba, 1993]. Ed. Javier Pérez Guerra. Vigo: AEDEAN, 2000. 69-78.*
Maugham, W, ed., Introduction to Modern English and American Literature. Philadelphia, 1943.
Parrington, Vernon Louis. Main Currents in American Thought: An Interpretation of American Literature from the Beginnings to 1920. Volume One: 1620-1800: The Colonial Mind; Volume Two: 1800-1860: The Romantic Revolution in America; Volume Three: 1860-1920: The Beginnings of Critical Realism in America. [3 vols in 1]. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1927, 1930.*
Pizer, Donald. American Expatriate Writing and the Paris Moment: Modernism and Place. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1996.
Rubin, Louis D., Jr, and Robert D. Jacobs, eds. Southern Renaissance. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1953.
Spiller, Robert E., ed. A Time of Harvest: American Literature 1910-1960. New York: Hill, 1962.
Walcutt, Charles Child. American Literary Naturalism: A Divided Stream. Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P, 1956.
Wasserman, Renata R. Mautner. Exotic Nations: Literature and Cultural Identity in the United States and Brazil, 1830-1930. Ithaca (NY): Cornell UP, 1994.
Journals
American Literary Realism
The Editor. English Department. HB 217
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
USA
Modernist
Baker, Houston A., Jr. Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1987. Ch. 10 rpt. in Modernism/Postmodernism. Ed. Peter Brooker. London: Longman, 1992. 107-12.
Benstock, Shari. Women of the Left Bank: Paris 1900-1940. London: Virago, 1987.
Homberger, Eric. "Chicago and New York: Two Versions of American Modernism." In Modernism. Ed. Malcolm Bradbury and James McFarlane. 1976. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991. 151-61.*
Kennedy, J. Gerald. "15. Modernist Paris and the Expatriate Literary Milieu." In Ernest Hemingway in Context. Ed. Debra A. Moddelmog and Suzanne del Gizzo. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2013. 153-62.*
Kenner, Hugh. The Pound Era. London: Faber, 1972.
_____. A Homemade World: The American Modernist Writers. New York: Knopf, 1975; London: Boyars, 1977.
Monk, Craig. "Modernism in Transition: The Expatriate American Magazine in Europe, between the World Wars." Miscelánea 20 (1999): 55-72.*
North, Michael. "The Harlem Renaissance." In Modernism and the New Criticism. Ed. A. Walton Litz, Louis Menand, and Lawrence Rainey. Vol. 7 of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000. 167-78.*
Pinsker, Sanford. "On or About 1910: When Human Character – and American Humor – Changed." In Critical Essays on American Humor. Ed. William Bedford Clark and W. Craig Turner. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1984. 184-199.
Sánchez-Pardo González, Esther, Asunción López-Varela Azcárate, Pilar Sánchez-Calle and Carmen Méndez García. "Modernismo mestizo? Expatriación, diáspora e hibridación etnorracial y genérica en la construcción de la vanguardia anglonorteamericana." 2003. In Actas del XXVII Congreso Internacional de AEDEAN / Proceedings of the 27th International AEDEAN Conference. Ed. Antonio R[odríguez] Celada, Daniel Pastor García, and Pedro Javier Pardo García. CD-ROM. Salamanca: Departamento de Filología Inglesa (Universidad de Salamanca) / Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos, 2004.*
Santana Martínez, Pedro. "La novela modernista norteamericana." In Historia crítica de la novela norteamericana. Ed. José Antonio Gurpegui.. Salamanca: Almar, 2001. 197-270.*
20s
Cowley, Malcolm. "Paris Pilgrimages." From Exile's Return. 1934,1951. In The Portable Malcolm Cowley. New York: Viking Penguin, 1990. 43-67.*
Wilson, Edmund. The Twenties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period. Ed. Leon Edel. 1975.
30s
Bogardus, Ralph F., and Fred Hobson, eds. Literature at the Barricades. Ed. Ralph F. Bogardus and Fred Hobson. University: U of Alabama P, 1982.
Browder, Laura. Rousing the Nation: Radical Culture in Depression. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1998.*
Cowley, Malcolm. "A Personal Record." (30s). 1978. In The Portable Malcolm Cowley. New York: Viking Penguin, 1990. 110-16.*
Kazin, Alfred. "En los años treinta: Todas las generaciones perdidas." In Kazin, En tierra nativa: Interpretación de medio siglo de literatura norteamericana. Mexico: FCE, 1993. 300-42.* (Dos Passos, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Wolfe, etc.).
Farrell, James T. "The End of a Literary Decade." American Mercury 48 (1939): 408-15.
Wilson, Edmund. The Thirties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period. Ed. Leon Edel. 1982.
40s
Fiedler, Leslie. Waiting for the End: The American Literary Scene from Hemingway to Baldwin. 1964. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967.
Jenkins, McKay. The South in Black and White: Race, Sex, and Literature in the 1940s. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1999.* (W. J. Cash, William Alexander Percy, Lillian Smith, Carson McCullers).
Wilson, Edmund. The Forties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period. Ed. Leon Edel. 1983.
Late 20th
Berthoff, Warner. "A Literature without Qualities: American Writing Since 1945." Yale Review 68.2 (Winter 1979): 251-252.
_____. A Literature Without Qualities
Bosch, Marta, Mercedes Cuenca Raya, and M. Isabel Seguro. "'All You Need Is Love', or How to Counteract Social Prejudice in American Literature (1945-present)." In aedeanXXXIII, Cádiz 12-14 Nov. 2009. Ed. R. Galán et al. CD-ROM. Cádiz: Servicio de Publicaciones, U de Cádiz, 2010.*
Clark, F. American Literature from the 40s into the 80s.
Christadler, Martin, ed. Amerikanische Literatur der Gegenwart. Stuttgart, 1973.
Grandjeat, Yves-Charles, ed. Sexualité et textualité dans la littérature américaine contemporaine. Talence: Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 1998.
Gray, Richard. "Aftermath: Southern Literature since World War II." In Gray, Literature of Memory. London: Arnold, 1977.*
Hassan, Ihab. Contemporary American Literature: An Introduction. New York: Ungar, 1973.
Hendin, Josephine G. A Concise Companion to Postwar American literature and Culture. (Concise Companions to Literature and Culture). Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
Hoffman, Daniel, ed. Harvard Guide to Contemporary American Writing. Cambridge (MA): Belknap, 1979.
Kiernan, Robert F. American Writing since 1945: A Critical Survey. New York: Ungar, 1983.
Klinkowitz, Jerome. Literary Disruptions: The Making of a Post-Contemporary American Fiction. 2nd ed. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1980.
Lesser, Wendy. (San Francisco). "United States." In The Oxford Guide to Contemporary World Literature. Ed. John Sturrock. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1997. 406-31.*
Marín, Pilar. "Dominant Themes in the Literature of the Vietnam War." Atlantis 3.1 (1981).
Pérez Gállego, Cándido. Literatura Norteamericana de Hoy. Madrid: Fundamentos, 1977.*
Pérez Gállego, Cándido, Félix Martín and Leopoldo Mateo. Literatura norteamericana actual. (Crítica y Estudios Literarios). Madrid: Cátedra, 1986.*
Scott, Nathan A., Jr., ed. Adversity and Grace: Studies in Recent American Literature. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1968.
Torres Núñez, Juan José. coed. Estudios de Literatura Norteamericana: Nabokov y otros autores contemporáneos.
Zamora, Lois Parkinson, ed. Contemporary American Women Writers: Gender, Class, Ethnicity. (Longman Critical Readers). Harlow (Essex): Addison Wesley Longman, 1998.*
Series
(Understanding Contemporary American Literature). Columbia (SC): U of South Carolina P, 1999.*
50s
Beat generation
Campbell, James. This Is the Beat Generation. London: Secker and Warburg, c. 1999.
Cook, Bruce. The Beat Generation. 1970.
_____. La generación Beat. Trans. Esdras Parra. Barcelona: Barral, 1974.*
Johnson, Ronna C., and Nancy M. Grace, eds. Girls Who Wore Black. Women Writing the Beat Generation. Reviewed in BELL ns 2 (2004).
Lee, A. Robert. The Beat Generation Writers.
Pastor García, Daniel. "La crítica ante la generación beat." In Studies in American Literature: Essays in Honor of Enrique García Díez. Ed. Antonia Sánchez Macarro. Valencia: Universitat de València, Facultat de Filologia, 1991. 211-20.*
Showalter, Elaine. "Road-Stop Rimbauds." Rev. of This Is the Beat Generation. By James Campbell. TLS 11 June 1999: 22.*
Theado, Matt. The Beats. A Literary Reference. Reviewed in BELL ns 2 (2004).
1960s
Años de fuego, lustros de lluvia. U de La Laguna, 2001. (Anglo-American lit. in the 60s).
Díaz, María Eugenia, and Viorika Patea Birk, eds. Anarchy and Dissent: American Literature in the Sixties. Salamanca: Plaza Universitaria, 1999.
Anthologies
Quinn, ed. The Sense of the 60s. New York: Free Press, 1968.
Postmodernism
Brogan, Kathleen. Cultural Haunting: Ghosts and Ethnicity in Recent American Literature. UP of Virginia, 1999.*
Jarvis, Brian. Postmodern Cartographies: The Geographical Imagination in Contemporary American Culture. St. Martin's P, 1998.
Lipina-Berezkina, Victoria. "Re-Enaction and Renewal: American Postmodernist Literature at the Threshold of the Third Millennium." In Power and Culture in America: Forms of Interaction and Renewal. Actas del V Congreso SAAS (Salamanca, 2001). Salamanca: Almar, 2002. 275-84.*
Mackey, Nathaniel. Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality and Experimental Writing. (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, 71). Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994.
Maver, Igor. "Recent Southern Writing in a Postmodern Context." REDEN 6 (1993): 37-44.
Pütz, Manfred, and Peter Freese, eds. Postmodernism in American Literature: A Critical Anthology. Darmastadt: Thesen, 1984.
"A Reader's Manifesto." In Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. (On Brian Reynolds Myers).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Reader%27s_Manifesto
2008-01-18
1960s
Dickstein, Morris. Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties. New York: Basic Books, 1977.
1970s
Marín, Pilar. "Dominant Themes in the Literature of the Vietnam War." Atlantis 3.1 (Dec. 1981): 5-15.*
New American Writing. Granta 1 (1979).
1990s
Oliva, Juan Ignacio, Francisco Collado, Silvia Martínez and Nieves Pascual. "North American Hybrid Literatures: From Canonical Subversions to Transgendered Realities." In Proceedings of the 29th AEDEAN Conference: Universidad de Jaén 15 al 20 diciembre 2005. CD-ROM. Ed. Alejandro Alcaraz Sintes et al. Jaén: AEDEAN / Servicio de Publicaciones U de Jaén, 2006. 681-90.*
