A unit of The State University of New York

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)



A

Key to reading the topics list:

Literary topic
Series:Volume number

Abbey Theatre in the Irish Literary Renaissance
TCLC 154

Abolitionist Literature of Cuba and Brazil, Nineteenth Century
NCLC 132

The Aborigine in Nineteenth Century Australian Literature
NCLC: 120

Acting on the Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Stage
LC 148

Adventure Literature
TCLC 202

The Aesopic Fable
LC 51

African-American Folklore and Literature
TCLC 126

The Age of al-Andalus
CMLC 81

Age of Johnson
LC 15

Age of Spenser
LC 39

AIDS in Literature
CLC 81

Alchemy in Seventeenth-Century England
LC 148

Alcohol and Literature
TCLC 70

American Abolitionism
NCLC 44

American Autobiography
TCLC 86

American Black Humor Fiction
TCLC 54

American Civil War in Literature
NCLC 32

The American Dream in Literature
TCLC 210

The American Frontier in Literature
NCLC 28

American Humor Writing
NCLC 52

American Immigrant Literature
TCLC 206

American Literary Naturalism
TCLC 182

The American Literary Renaissance
NCLC 184

American Novel of Manners
TCLC 130

The American Mercury
TCLC 74

American Naturalism in Short Fiction
SSC 77

American Popular Song, Golden Age of
TCLC 42

American Proletarian Literature
TCLC 54

American Realism
NCLC 120

American Renaissance
SSC 64

American Romanticism
NCLC 44

American Western Literature
TCLC 46

American Writers in Paris
TCLC 98

Anarchism
NCLC 84

Angry Young Men
TCLC 166

Animals in Literature
TCLC 106

Antebellum South, Literature of the
NCLC 112

Anti-Americanism
TCLC 158

Anti-Apartheid Literature
TCLC 162

The Apocalyptic Movement
TCLC 106

Argentine Literature
TCLC 210

Aristotle
CMLC 31

Art and Literature
TCLC 54

Arthurian Literature
CMLC 10

Arthurian Revival
NCLC 36

Aztec Myths and Literature
LC 122

The Audience and Nineteenth-Century Literature
NCLC 160

Australian Cultural Identity in Nineteenth Century Literature
NCLC 124

Australian Literature
TCLC 50

Autobiographical Writing
TCLC 214

Choose a letter below to view a list of topics:

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y

Z