Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism

This series provides criticism on the major literary figures and nonfiction writers, including novelists, playwrights and literary theorists, who died between 1900 and 1999. Each volume presents overviews of four to eight authors along with chronologically arranged criticism representing the range of response to each author. Entries typically include an author portrait, an introduction to the author, a primary bibliography, annotated criticism and an annotated list of further reading sources. Approximately 90 to 95 per cent of the critical essays are full text. Each volume includes cumulative author name, topic and nationality indexes as well as a volume-specific title index. A cumulative title index to the entire series is published separately (included in subscription).