Books
by Alumni: Criticism
Thomas
E. Connolly,
AM'47, PhD'51, Essays on Fiction--Dickens, Melville, Hawthorne,
and Faulkner (Edwin Mellen Press). Connolly addresses such
issues as name symbolism in Melville, Hawthorne's attack on Puritanic
Calvinism, and themes of determinism in Faulkner.
Jane
Lilienfeld, AM'68, Reading Alcoholisms: Theorizing
Character and Narrative in Selected Novels of Thomas Hardy, James
Joyce, and Virginia Woolf (St. Martin's Scholarly and Reference
Press), and, with co--editor Jeffrey Oxford, The Languages of Addiction
(St. Martin's Scholarly and Reference Press). In the first book,
Lilienfeld addresses alcoholism or addiction in the novels' characters
and alcoholic behaviors in narrative performance. The second book,
an anthology, includes sections on literary theory, pedagogy,
and alcoholism and treatment theories.
Claude
J. Summers, AM'67, PhD'70, and Ted--Larry Pebworth,
editors, The English Civil Wars in the Literary Imagination
(University of Missouri Press). This collection of 15 essays
explores the representation of the English civil wars and how
the wars were anticipated and refigured through the century's
literary minds.