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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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Key to reading the topics list:

Literary topic
Series:Volume number

The Calendar
LC 55

Calvinism in Nineteenth-Century Literature
NCLC 192

Canadian Literature
TCLC 206

Captivity Narratives
LC 82

Caribbean Literature
TCLC 138

Catholicism in Nineteenth Century American Literature
NCLC 64

Cavalier Poetry and Drama.
LC107

Celtic Mythology
CMLC 26

Celtic Twilight
SEE Irish Literary Renaissance

Censorship and Contemporary World Literature
CLC 194

Censorship in Twentieth-Century Literature
TCLC 154

Censorship of the Press in the Nineteenth Century
NCLC 156

The Charist Movement and Literature
NCLC 60

The Chicago Renaissance
TCLC 154

Chick-Lit and Lad-Lit
CLC 210

Child Labor in Nineteenth Century Literature
NCLC 108

Childhood in Nineteenth-Century Literature
NCLC 172

Children's Literature, Nineteenth Century
NCLC 52

Chilean Literature
TCLC 206

Christian Saints and Mystics of the Early Modern Era
LC153

Christianity in Nineteenth-Century Literature
NCLC 180

Christianity in Twentieth Century Literature
TCLC 110

Chronicle Plays
LC 89

The City and Literature
TCLC 90

City Comedy
LC 118

Civic Critics, Russian
NCLC 20

Civic Pageants
LC154

Civil Rights Literature
TCLC 210

The Cockney School
NCLC 68

Cold War Literature
TCLC 186

Colonial America: The Intellectual Background
LC 25

Colonialism in Victorian English Literature
NCLC 56

Columbus, Christopher, Books on the Quincentennial of His Arrival in the New World
CLC 70

Comic Books
TCLC 66

Comedy of Manners
LC 92

Commedia dell'Arte
LC 83

Commonwealth Literature
TCLC 198

Conduct Books in Nineteenth-Century Literature
NCLC 152

Connecticut Wits
NCLC 48

Contemporary Black Humor
CLC 196

Contemporary Chicano/a Literature
CLC 205

Contemporary Crime Fiction
CLC 209

Contemporary Feminist Criticism
CLC 180

Contemporary Gay and Lesbian Literature
CLC 171

Contemporary Holocaust Literature
CLC 252

Contemporary Indian Literature
CLC 247

Contemporary Israeli Fiction
CLC 240

Contemporary Literature Arising from the Vietnam War
CLC 254

Contemporary Pulp Fiction
CLC 264

Contemporary Romance Fiction.
CLC 206

Contemporary Southern Literature
CLC 167

Contemporary Travel Narratives
CLC 204

Contemporary Young Adult Fiction
CLC 234

Contemporary Western Fiction
CLC260

Country House Literature
TCLC 190

Creation Myths
CMLC 110

Crime Fiction - see Contemporary Crime Fiction

Crime in Literature
TCLC 54

Crime-Mystery-Detective Stories
SSC 59

The Crusades
CMLC 38

Cuban Exile Literature.
CLC 207

Cyberpunk
TCLC 106

Cyberpunk Short Fiction
SSC 60

Czechoslovakian Literature of the Twentieth Century
TCLC 42

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