Literature -- History and criticism
Here are entered histories of literature and works evaluating the character and qualities of works of literature. Works on the principles of literary criticism are entered under the heading Criticism.
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Broader terms:Narrower terms:- Literature -- History and criticism -- Early works to 1800
- Literature -- History and criticism -- Periodicals
- Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
- Aesthetics in literature -- History and criticism
- Apocalyptic literature -- History and criticism
- Canon (Literature)
- Children's literature -- History and criticism
- Christian literature -- History and criticism
- Classical literature -- History and criticism
- Didactic literature -- History and criticism
- Disasters in literature -- History and criticism
- Drama -- History and criticism
- Drug addicts' writings -- History and criticism
- Epic literature -- History and criticism
- Erotic literature -- History and criticism
- Exiles' writings -- History and criticism
- Fables -- History and criticism
- Fantasy literature -- History and criticism
- Fiction -- History and criticism
- Folk literature -- History and criticism
- Forgery in literature -- History and criticism
- Gays' writings -- History and criticism
- Literary landmarks
- Literature, Ancient -- History and criticism
- Literature, Experimental -- History and criticism
- Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism
- Literature, Modern -- History and criticism
- Natural disasters in literature -- History and criticism
- Numbers in literature -- History and criticism
- Patients' writings -- History and criticism
- Poetry -- History and criticism
- Prose literature -- History and criticism
- Religious literature -- History and criticism
- Sagas -- History and criticism
- Satire -- History and criticism
- Travelers' writings -- History and criticism
- Utopias in literature -- History and criticism
- Wit and humor -- History and criticism
- Women and literature -- History and criticism
- Women in literature -- History and criticism
- Working class writings -- History and criticism
- Literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
- Literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Literature -- Black authors -- History and criticism
- Literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- Appraisal of books
- Books -- Appraisal
- Evaluation of literature
- Literature -- Evaluation
- History of literature
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Literary Lectures Presented at the Library of Congress (Washington: Library of Congress, 1973), contrib. by Thomas Mann, T. S. Eliot, R. P. Blackmur, Archibald Henderson, Irving Stone, John O'Hara, MacKinlay Kantor, John Crowe Ransom, Delmore Schwartz, John Hall Wheelock, Robert Hillyer, Pierre Emmanuel, Cleanth Brooks, Richard Wilbur, Leon Edel, Alain Bosquet, Hans Egon Holthusen, Erich Heller, Marc Slonim, Lin Yutang, Giose Rimanelli, Arturo Torres-Rioseco, Stephen Spender, Saul Bellow, Louis Untermeyer, Ralph Ellison, Karl Shapiro, and Reed Whittemore (page images at HathiTrust)- Books Alive: A Profane Chronicle of Literary Endeavor and Literary Misdemeanor (New York: Random House, 1940), by Vincent Starrett, contrib. by Christopher Morley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dark Conceit: The Making of Allegory (open access reprint; originally published Evanston: Northwestern University Press, ca. 1959), by Edwin Honig (PDF at Northwestern)
- It Needs to Be Said... (c1929), by Frederick Philip Grove (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Essays (New York: Harper and Bros., 1922), by Percy Stickney Grant
- Books and Habits From the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn, by Lafcadio Hearn, ed. by John Erskine (Gutenberg text)
- The Cutting of an Agate (New York: Macmillan, 1912), by W. B. Yeats
- Essays in Little, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Function of the Poet, and Other Essays, by James Russell Lowell, ed. by Albert Mordell (Gutenberg text)
- Handbook of Universal Literature, From the Best and Latest Authorities, by Anne C. Lynch Botta (Gutenberg text)
- Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature (partial serial archives)
- Hieroglyphics (London: Grant Richards, 1902), by Arthur Machen (page images at Google; US access only)
- Initiation Into Literature, by Émile Faguet, trans. by Home Gordon (Gutenberg text)
- Letters on Literature, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)
- Literary Hours: or, Sketches Critical, Narrative, and Poetical (third edition, 3 volumes; London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804), by Nathan Drake (page images at HathiTrust)
- My Literary Passions, by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)
- Post Liminium: Essays and Critical Papers (London: E. Mathews, 1911), by Lionel Johnson, ed. by Thomas Whittemore (page images at HathiTrust)
- Pot-Boilers (London: Chatto and Windus, 1918), by Clive Bell (Gutenberg text)
- Studies, Stories, and Memoirs (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1888), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Works of William H. Prescott (Montezuma edition, 22 volumes; Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1904), by William Hickling Prescott, ed. by Wilfred Harold Munro, contrib. by John Foster Kirk, William Robertson, and George Ticknor
- Obiter Dicta, by Augustine Birrell (Gutenberg text)
- Interpretations of Poetry and Religion (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1900), by George Santayana (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Letters to Dead Authors, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)
- The Aesthetic and Miscellaneous Works of Friedrich von Schlegel: Comprising Letters on Christian Art; An Essay on Gothic Architecture; Remarks on the Romance-Poetry of the Middle Ages and on Shakspere; On the Limits of the Beautiful; On the Language and Wisdom of the Indians (London: H. G. Bohn, 1860), by Friedrich von Schlegel, trans. by E. J. Millington
- Kleinere Schriften (3 volumes, in German; Weimar: E. Felber, 1898-1900), by Reinhold Köhler, ed. by Johannes Bolte
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Crumbling idols; (Chicago and Cambridge [Mass.] Stone and Kimball, 1894), by Hamlin Garland (page images at HathiTrust)- Relatives and ideals; social, political, literary and artistic, (New York, The Macmillan company, 1908), by Frederic Harrison (page images at HathiTrust)
- An inquiry into the moral character of Lord Byron ... (New York: Published by E. Bliss & E. White ..., 1824), by J. W. Simmons (page images at HathiTrust)
- Literary statesmen and others; essays on men seen from a distance, (Chicago & New York, H. S. Stone & co., 1897), by Norman Hapgood (page images at HathiTrust)
- Pastiche and prejudice, by Arthur Bingham Walkley (Gutenberg ebook)
- Prejudices: Fourth Series, by H. L. Mencken (Gutenberg ebook)
- The Literary Discipline, by John Erskine (Gutenberg ebook)
- Kirjoja ja kirjailijoita III (in Finnish), by Veikko Antero Koskenniemi (Gutenberg ebook)
- Kirjoja ja kirjailijoita II (in Finnish), by Veikko Antero Koskenniemi (Gutenberg ebook)
- Kirjoja ja kirjailijoita I (in Finnish), by Veikko Antero Koskenniemi (Gutenberg ebook)
- Companionable Books, by Henry Van Dyke (Gutenberg ebook)
- Questions at Issue, by Edmund Gosse (Gutenberg ebook)
- Principle in Art, Etc., by Coventry Patmore (Gutenberg ebook)
- Kaarlo Bergbomin kirjoitukset 2. Tutkimukset ja arvostelut (in Finnish), by Kaarlo Johan Bergbom, ed. by Eliel Aspelin-Haapkylä (Gutenberg ebook)
- Prejudices, First Series, by H. L. Mencken (Gutenberg ebook)
- A Persian Pearl, and Other Essays, by Clarence Darrow (Gutenberg ebook)
- Prejudices, Third Series, by H. L. Mencken (Gutenberg ebook)
- Prejudices, Second Series, by H. L. Mencken (Gutenberg ebook)
- Essays Literary, Critical and Historical, by Thomas O'Hagan (Gutenberg ebook)
- Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 28 (in French), by Alphonse de Lamartine (Gutenberg ebook)
- Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 27 (in French), by Alphonse de Lamartine (Gutenberg ebook)
- Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 26 (in French), by Alphonse de Lamartine (Gutenberg ebook)
- Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 25 (in French), by Alphonse de Lamartine (Gutenberg ebook)
- Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 24 (in French), by Alphonse de Lamartine (Gutenberg ebook)
- Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 23 (in French), by Alphonse de Lamartine (Gutenberg ebook)
- Interpretations of Poetry and Religion, by George Santayana (Gutenberg ebook)
- Chez les passants: fantaisies, pamphlets et souvenirs. Suivi de pages inédites (in French), by Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam (Gutenberg ebook)
- Conversazioni critiche (in Italian), by Giosuè Carducci (Gutenberg ebook)
- Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 18 (in French), by Alphonse de Lamartine (Gutenberg ebook)
- Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 02 (in French), by Alphonse de Lamartine (Gutenberg ebook)
- Nineteenth Century Questions, by James Freeman Clarke (Gutenberg ebook)
- Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 14 (in French), by Alphonse de Lamartine (Gutenberg ebook)
- Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 22 (in French), by Alphonse de Lamartine (Gutenberg ebook)
- Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 21 (in French), by Alphonse de Lamartine (Gutenberg ebook)
- Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 19 (in French), by Alphonse de Lamartine (Gutenberg ebook)
- Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 07 (in French), by Alphonse de Lamartine (Gutenberg ebook)
- Hieroglyphics, by Arthur Machen (Gutenberg ebook)
- Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 13 (in French), by Alphonse de Lamartine (Gutenberg ebook)
- Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 12 (in French), by Alphonse de Lamartine (Gutenberg ebook)
- The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces, by Joyce Kilmer, contrib. by Robert Cortes Holliday (Gutenberg ebook)
- Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems., by Margaret Fuller, ed. by Arthur B. Fuller (Gutenberg ebook)
- Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 11 (in French), by Alphonse de Lamartine (Gutenberg ebook)
- Fame usurpate (in Italian), by Vittorio Imbriani (Gutenberg ebook)
- The Critical Game, by John Albert Macy (Gutenberg ebook)
- Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 20 (in French), by Alphonse de Lamartine (Gutenberg ebook)
- Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 17 (in French), by Alphonse de Lamartine (Gutenberg ebook)
- Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 16 (in French), by Alphonse de Lamartine (Gutenberg ebook)
- Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 15 (in French), by Alphonse de Lamartine (Gutenberg ebook)
- Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 10 (in French), by Alphonse de Lamartine (Gutenberg ebook)
- Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 09 (in French), by Alphonse de Lamartine (Gutenberg ebook)
- Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 08 (in French), by Alphonse de Lamartine (Gutenberg ebook)
- Critical Studies, by Ouida (Gutenberg ebook)
- Cronache Letterarie (in Italian), by Luigi Capuana (Gutenberg ebook)
- The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's; With Other Essays, by David Masson (Gutenberg ebook)
- Ephemera Critica; Or, Plain Truths About Current Literature, by John Churton Collins (Gutenberg ebook)
- Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 05 (in French), by Alphonse de Lamartine (Gutenberg ebook)
- Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 04 (in French), by Alphonse de Lamartine (Gutenberg ebook)
- The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 03, by Robert Louis Stevenson (Gutenberg ebook)
- Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 4: Essays Chiefly on the Science of Language, by F. Max Müller (Gutenberg ebook)
- A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies, by Oscar Wilde, ed. by E. V. Lucas (Gutenberg ebook)
- Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3), Essay 1: On Popular Culture, by John Morley (Gutenberg ebook)
- Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 5: Miscellaneous Later Essays, by F. Max Müller (Gutenberg ebook)
- Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 06 (in French), by Alphonse de Lamartine (Gutenberg ebook)
- Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 3: Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities, by F. Max Müller (Gutenberg ebook)
- Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 03 (in French), by Alphonse de Lamartine (Gutenberg ebook)
- Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 1: Essays on the Science of Religion, by F. Max Müller (Gutenberg ebook)
- Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 01 (in French), by Alphonse de Lamartine (Gutenberg ebook)
- Views and Reviews: Essays in appreciation: Literature, by William Ernest Henley (Gutenberg ebook)
- Suuren hiljaisuuden miehiä: Kokoelma Blaise Pascalin, Ralph Waldo Emersonin, Leo Tolstoin, Maurice Maeterlinckin, Johannes Müllerin ja Hans Larssonin suomennettuja mietekirjoitelmia johdantoineen ja selityksineen (in Finnish), ed. by Yrjö Karilas (Gutenberg ebook)
- Platform Monologues, by T. G. Tucker (Gutenberg ebook)
- Among Famous Books, by John Kelman (Gutenberg ebook)
- Aspects of Literature, by John Middleton Murry (Gutenberg ebook)
- Studies in Literature, by John Morley (Gutenberg ebook)
- A treatise of religion & learning and of religious and learned men consisting of six books, the two first treating of religion & learning, the four last of religious or learned men in an alphabetical order ... / by Edward Leigh ... (London : Printed by A.M. for Charles Adams ..., 1656), by Edward Leigh (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Treatise of religion and learning (London : Printed for Charles Adams ..., 1663), by Edward Leigh (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Parrhasiana. English (London : Printed for A. and J. Churchil ..., 1700), by Jean Le Clerc (HTML at EEBO TCP)
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