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In the 1966 article “Word, Dialogue, and Novel,” Julia Kristeva introduces the concept of intertextuality through her study of Mikhail Bakhtin’s tracing of multivalent voices in Dostoevsky’s polyph...

Brian Bruce’s 2006 biography is appropriately titled, Thomas Boyd: Lost Author of the “Lost Generation.” Not many readers are familiar with Thomas Boyd, even though his Through the Wheat is general...

In “Going to Meet the Man,” James Baldwin illustrates Flannery O’Connor’s theory that violence serves as a catalyst for a “moment of grace.” Through the remembrances of the main character during on...

Over two centuries separate Susanna Rowson’s Charlotte Temple and Tom Wolfe’s I Am Charlotte Simmons, but both novels chronicle in similar ways how two young women named Charlotte succumb to the fa...

F. Scott Fitzgerald never addressed the causes underlying his alcoholism through Buchmanism, the Oxford Group, or Alcoholics Anonymous. Fitzgerald believed he could stop drinking through self-will,...

Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette; Or, The History of Eliza Wharton; A Novel; Founded on Fact addresses issues related to feminism, gender, genre, politics, and ethics. Interpreting Foster's 179...

In the tradition of the bildungsroman, the two volumes of John Cleland’s Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748–49) conveniently divide the main character’s sexual initiation into peri...