Flannery O'Connor: The Contemporary Reviews (American Critical Archives, Series Number 16) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521828635 ISBN 13: 9780521828635

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Despite Flannery O'Connor's brief life, her work, comprising novels, short stories, essays, and articles, has had a great impact on American literature and to some extent popular culture, of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Her writing has become well loved, well read, and often studied. This book reprints complete book reviews and excerpts from review essays on the works of Flannery O'Connor that appeared in newspapers and periodicals during the author's writing life (1945-64) and after her early death. The more than four hundred edited reviews are prefaced with a substantial Introduction that situates O'Connor within the critical milieu of post-war American letters and Southern literary tradition, and provides an overview of contemporary critical responses to her collected stories, novels, and occasional pieces. An important resource for scholars of O'Connor and of Southern literature generally, this volume reveals much about her early reception and the continuing relevance of her work.

About this title

Book Description:

More than four hundred complete book reviews and excerpts from review essays are brought together here for the first time, with a substantial Introduction. An important resource for scholars, the volume reveals much about O'Connor's early reception and the continuing relevance of her work.

About the Author:

R. Neil Scott is Associate Professor and User Services Librarian at the James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521828635
• ISBN 13: 9780521828635
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 540
• Editor: Scott R. Neil, Streight Irwin H.