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Literary Criticism Topics

compiled from the Gale Literary Criticism Series

These volumes contain critical essays covering individual topics in Literature
(example: Fear in Literature)

CLC: Contemporary Literary Criticism (REFERENCE PN771 .C59)
CMLC: Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism (REFERENCE PN681 .C57)
DC: Drama Criticism (REFERENCE PN1601 .D59)
LC: Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 (REFERENCE PN86 .L56)
NCLC: Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism (REFERENCE PN761 .N56)
SSC: Short Story Criticism (REFERENCE PN3373 .S386)
TCLC: Twentieth Century Literary Criticism (REFERENCE PN771 .G27)



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Series:Volume number

Eastern Mythology
CMLC 26

Ecofeminism and Nineteenth-Century Literature
NCLC 136

Ecocriticism and Nineteenth-Century Literature
NCLC 140

Edwardian Literature
TCLC 186

Eighteenth-Century British Periodicals
LC 63

Eighteenth-Century Travel Narratives
LC 77

Electronic "Books": Hypertext and Hyperfiction:
CLC 86

Eliot, T.S., Centenary of Birth
CLC 55

Elizabethan Drama
LC 22

Elizabethan Prose Fiction
LC 41

The Emergence of the Short Story in the Nineteenth Century
NCLC 140

Enclosure of the English Common
NCLC 88

The Encyclopedists
LC 26

English Abolitionist Literature of the Nineteenth Century
NCLC 136

English Caroline Literature
LC 13

English Decadent Literature of the 1890's
NCLC 28

English Emblem Books
LC 125

English Essay, Rise of the
LC 18

English Mystery Cycle Dramas
LC 34

The English Realist Novel, 1740-1771
LC 51

English Revolution, Literature of the
LC 43

English Romantic Hellenism
NCLC 68

English Romantic Poetry
NCLC 28

The Epistolary Novel
LC 59

Espionage Literature
TCLC 50

European Debates on the Conquest of the Americas
LC 67

European Romanticism
NCLC 36

Exile in Literature
TCLC 122

Exile in Nineteenth-Century European and American Literature
NCLC 172

Existentialism and Literature
TCLC 42

Ezra Pound Controversy
TCLC 150

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