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.