Herman Wouk has achieved a remarkable following among the American reading public. He is best known for his World War II novels, in particular The Caine Mutiny, his controversial story of the U.S. Navy during World War II. Still in print more than forty years after its publication, the best-selling novel inspired a popular stage play and a now classic motion picture. Wouk's later panoramic fictional histories of World War II - Winds of War and War and Remembrance - were the basis for a popular American television miniseries during the 1980s.In this long overdue study, Laurence W. Mazzeno reviews each of the author's nine novels. The study incorporates an assessment of Wouk's ideologies, tracing them throughout his best novels. In addition, Mazzeno includes a thorough evaluation of the critical response to Wouk's work by featuring generous quotations from contemporary reviews of the novels. Mazzeno's bibliography and examination of previously uncollected criticism scattered throughout magazines newspapers and literary reviews is a first. Wouk, a writer of highly popular novels for more than forty years, has been the subject of only one book-length study; Mazzeno's Herman Wouk clearly fills this void.

Herman Wouk (Twayne's United States Authors Series)

Literature & Fiction

Mazzeno, Laurence W.

History & Criticism

Twayne Pub

The Victorian Novel

Reference

Catalogs & Directories

Scarecrow Press

Designed for students, general readers, and teachers, this bibliography provides annotations to critical commentaries for more than eighty of the most read and most taught poems by major and minor Victorian figures. A brief introductory essay surveys the status of Victorian poetry as a discipline for study; provides information about periodicals or monograph series which routinely publish materials on Victorian poets and their works; and summarizes the contents of dozens of works offering useful introductions to the study of nineteenth-century English poetry. Separate chapters cover criticism of the works of individual poets, including Matthew Arnold, the Brownings, George Meredith, Christina Rossetti, and others. Included are summaries of monographs, chapters, and articles in volumes of collected essays. Annotations identify the central thesis of each entry, provide succinct identifications of the major critical approach taken by the author(s), and indicate, when appropriate, the presence of sources for additional study. An index is provided to assist in locating information about individual poems and authors.

Victorian Poetry

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, The British Novel 1680-1832 provides citations for twenty important writers including Jane Austen, William Beckford, Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Johnson, Ann Radcliffe, Sir Walter Scott, Mary Shelley, and Horace Walpole. One chapter is dedicated to each author, with listings categorized first as general studies, followed by listings pertaining to individual novels. Scholars will notice an eclectic collection of criticisms and analyses, ranging from "traditional scholarship" based in sociological, moral, or historical study which is generally patriarchal in outlook, to post-structuralist scholarship such as deconstructionism and feminism. Includes author and subject indexes. Written to be contiguous with The Victorian Novel.

The British Novel 1680-1832

Essays & Correspondence

This literary reference source contains entries on numerous titles and contains revised essays, critical evaluation sections, story segments and essay review segments.

Masterplots: 1,801 Plots, Stories and Critical Evaluations of the World's Finest Literature Volume 1 A-Ber, 1-614

Magill, Frank N.

Salem Press

Masterplots was the first book published by Salem Press in 1949 and is the original work of literary reference offering plot summaries. From a collection of 500 plot summaries of world-famous novels, plays, poems and works of non-fiction, Masterplots has grown to cover plot synopses, critical commentary, character profiles, literary settings and biographical profiles in more than 12,000 reference articles. Masterplots articles are designed to be efficient reference sources, providing available facts about a work at a glance. Each article opens with ready-reference information: Type of work, author, first publication date, and English translation date where applicable. Narrative works also receive type of plot, time of plot, locale, and principal characters.

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