A multi-volume compilation of analytical essays on and study activities for the works of authors of popular fiction. Includes biography data, publishing history, and resources for the author of each analyzed work.
Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction: Dr-Ha]. Analyses series. Vol. 3
J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur , Letters From an American Farmer , ed . ... Jack P. Greene and J. R. Pole ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Pres , 1984 ) , 238–40 ; and Alice H. Jones , Wealth of a Nation to Be ( New York ...
Yale Review 85 : 1 ( January 1997 ) : 156-64 . ... In Language : Readings in Language and Culture , edited by Virginia P. Clark , Paul A. Eschholz , and Alfred F. Rosa . ... In Merry Gentlemen ( And One Lady ) , 99–118 .
Biographical Sketch Walter Mosley was born in Los Angeles and attended Goddard College and Johnson State College, where he received a B.A. in 1977. He did graduate work at City College of the City University of New York and achieved a ...
Hershbach, Dudley R. “Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads.” In Gross, Paul R., Norman Levitt, and Martin W. Lewis, eds. The Flight from Science and Reason. New York: The New York Academy of Sciences, 1996: 11–30. Hess, Peter Hans.
... Fiction Writers; Revised Edition. Ed. Richard Bleiler. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999. 453–66. – “Stanislaw Lem: The Chain of Chance.” Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction. Ed. Kirk Beetz. Osprey, Florida: Beacham ...
... 150, 191n Clute, John, 113 Collins, Michael, 155 Collins, Wilkie, 63 Coming to America, 185n Condon, Richard, 48 Conrad, Joseph, 190n Conrad, Peter, 104 Coser, Lewis A., 35 Croce, Benedetto, 88 Culler, Jonathan, 186n Curwen, Peter, ...
No discussion of McBain's procedurals would be complete without the discussion of women in blue. Of the numerous female protagonists that over the years enter and exit the series' inner core, Sharyn Cooke in particular underscores the ...
... published in 1965), and a book-length poem, Mexico City Blues (written in 1953, published in 1959). Kerouac wrote On the Road in 1951 in an attempt to convey the spirit of his travels with his friend Neal Cassady, named Dean ...