Twayne's Masterwork Studies
Book Series
by Claudia Durst Johnson
Latest:
2014
Book 1
Book 2
The Bible: A Literary Study
by John H. Gottcent
Book 3
Moby Dick: Ishmael's Mighty Book
by Kerry McSweeny
Book 4
The Canterbury Tales: A Literary Pilgrimage
by David Williams
Book 5
Heart of Darkness: Search for the Unconscious
by Gary Adelman
Book 6
Great Expectations: A Novel of Friendship
by Bert G. Hornback
Book 7
Sons and Lovers: A Novel of Division and Desire
by Ross C. Murfin
Book 8
The Birth of Tragedy (A Commentary)
by David Lenson
Book 9
The Interpretation of Dreams: Freud's Theories Revisited
by Lawrence M. Porter
Book 10
Jane Eyre: Portrait of a Life
by Maggie Berg
Book 11
To the Lighthouse: The Marriage of Life and Art
by Alice Van Buren Kelley
Book 12
Paradise Lost: Ideal and Tragic Epic
by Francis Blessington
Book 13
Book 14
Middlemarch: A Novel of Reform
by Bert G. Hornback
Book 15
Red Badge of Courage: Redefining the Hero
by Donald B. Gibson
Book 16
The Sun Also Rises: A Novel of the Twenties
by Michael S. Reynolds
Book 17
Invisible Man Race and Identity
by Kerry McSweeney
Book 18
Book 19
Book 20
Dubliners: A Pluralistic World
by Craig Werner
Book 21
Book 22
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Rising to Heroism
by M. Gilbert Porter
Book 23
Madame Bovary: The End of Romance
by Eric Lawrence Gans
Book 24
The Stranger: Humanity and the Absurd
by English Showalter
Book 25
The Divine Comedy: Tracing God's Art
by Marguerite Mills Chiarenza
Book 26
The Turn of the Screw: Bewildered Vision
by Terry Heller
Book 27
The Grapes of Wrath: Trouble in the Promised Land
by Louis Owens
Book 28
Our Town: An American Play
by Donald C. Haberman
Book 29
Catch-22: Antiheroic Antinovel
by Stephen W. Potts
Book 30
Nineteen Eight-Four: Past, Present, and Future
by Patrick Reilly
Book 31
My Antonia: The Road Home
by John J. Murphy
Book 32
Franklin's Autobiography: A Model Life
by Paul M. Zall
Book 33
Waiting for Godot: Form in Movement
by Thomas Cousineau
Book 34
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: Necessary Fictions, Terrifying Realities
by Matthew C. Roudané
Book 35
Daisy Miller: A Dark Comedy of Manners
by Daniel Mark Fogel
Book 36
Masterwork Studies Series - The Great Gatsby
by Richard Daniel
Book 37
Slaughterhouse-Five: Reforming the Novel and the World
by Jerome Klinkowitz
Book 38
Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man: Voices of the Text
by Marguerite Harkness
Book 39
Brave New World: History, Science, and Dystopia
by Robert S. Baker
Book 40
Of Human Bondage: Coming of Age in the Novel
by Archie K. Loss
Book 41
Ulysses: Portals of Discovery
by Patrick A. McCarthy
Book 42
Bleak House: A Novel of Connections
by Norman Page
Book 43
Glass Menagerie: An American Memory
by Delma E. Presley
Book 44
Don Quixote: The Quest for Modern Fiction
by Carroll B. Johnson
Book 45
Crime and Punishment: A Mind to Murder
by Gary Cox
Book 46
Herzog: The Limits of Ideas
by Jonathan Wilson
Book 47
Streetcar Named Desire: The Moth and the Lantern
by Thomas P. Adler
Book 48
Moll Flanders: The Making of a Criminal Mind
by Paula R. Backscheider
Book 49
Long Day's Journey into Night
by Michael Hinden
Book 50
A Separate Peace: The War Within
by Hallman Bell Bryant
Book 51
The Rainbow: A Search for New Life
by Duane Edwards
Book 52
The House of Mirth: A Novel of Admonition
by Linda Wagner-Martin
Book 53
Book 54
The Mill on the Floss: A Natural History
by Rosemary Ashton
Book 55
Winesburg Ohio: An Exploration
by Ray Lewis White
Book 56
Anna Karenina
by Gary Aldelman
Book 57
The Idiot: An Interpretation
by Victor Terras
Book 58
Joseph Andrews: A Satire of Modern Times
by Simon Varey
Book 59
Brideshead Revisited: The Past Redeemed
by Robert Murray Davis
Book 60
The Iliad: Action As Poetry
by Paolo Vivante
Book 61
The Sound and the Fury: Faulkner and the Lost Cause
by John T. Matthews, Robert Lecker
Book 62
Hedda Gabler: Gender, Role, and the World
by Charles R. Lyons
Book 63
Uncle Tom's Cabin: Evil, Affliction, and Redemptive Love
by Josephine Donovan
Book 64
Robinson Crusoe: Island Myths and the Novel
by Michael Seidel
Book 65
Women in Love: A Novel of Mythic Realism
by Charles L. Ross
Book 66
The House of the Seven Gables: Severing Family and Colonial Ties
by Peter Buitenhuis
Book 67
Mrs. Dalloway: Mapping Streams of Consciousness
by David Oakey Dowling
Book 68
David Copperfield: Interweaving Truth and Fiction
by Graham Storey
Book 69
Cry, the Beloved Country: A Novel of South Africa
by Edward Callan
Book 70
100 Years of Solitude: Modes of Reading
by Regina Janes
Book 72
Tom Jones: Adventure and Providence
by Patrick Reilly
Book 73
The Faerie Queene: Educating the Reader
by Russell J. Meyer
Book 74
The Red and the Black: Mimetic Desire and the Myth of Celebrity
by Jefferson Humphries
Book 75
A Doll's House: Ibsen's Myth of Transformation
by Errol Durbach
Book 76
Absalom, Absalom!: The Questioning of Fictions
by Robert Dale Parker
Book 77
Native Son: The Emergence of a New Black Hero
by Robert Butler
Book 78
The Portrait of a Lady: Maiden, Woman, and Heroine
by Lyall H. Powers
Book 79
Buddenbrooks: Family Life As the Mirror of Social Change
by Martin Swales
Book 80
The Old Man and the Sea: Story of a Common Man
by Gerry Brenner
Book 81
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
by Donald Rackin
Book 82
The Prince: A Historical Critique
by Victor Anthony Rudowski
Book 83
A-Z of Inclusion in Early Childhood
by Robin Feuer Miller
Book 84
A Farewell to Arms
by Robert W. Lewis
Book 85
Sentimental Education: The Complexity of Disenchantment
by William Paulson
Book 86
The Marble Faun: Hawthorne's Transformations
by Evan Carton
Book 87
Tess of the D'Urbervilles: Unorthodox Beauty
by Peter J. Casagrande
Book 88
Book 89
A Tale of Two Cities: Dickens's Revolutionary Novel
by Ruth F. Glancy
Book 90
Silas Marner: Memory and Salvation
by Patrick Swinden
Book 91
Walden: Volatile Truths
by Martin Bickman
Book 92
Leaves of Grass
by James E. Miller Jr.
Book 93
Howards End: E.M. Forster's House of Fiction
by Alistair M. Duckworth
Book 94
Jude the Obscure: A Paradise of Despair
by Gary Adelman
Book 95
Light in August: A Study in Black and White
by Alwyn Berland
Book 96
Goethe's Faust: Theater of the World
by Jane K. Brown
Book 97
Sister Carrie: Theodore Dreiser's Sociological Tragedy
by David E.E. Sloane
Book 98
The Bell Jar: A Novel of the Fifties
by Linda Wagner-Martin
Book 99
Lord of the Rings: The Mythology of Power
by Jane Chance Nitzsche
Book 100
The Odyssey: An Epic of Return
by William G. Thalmann
Book 101
Fathers and Sons: Russia at the Cross-Roads
by Edward Wasiolek
Book 102
As I Lay Dying: Stories Out of Stories
by Warwick Wadlington
Book 103
Book 104
Candide: Optimism Demolished
by Haydn Mason
Book 105
Babbitt: An American Life
by Glen A. Love
Book 106
Lord of the Flies: Fathers and Sons
by Patrick Reilly
Book 107
The Trial: Kafka's Unholy Trinity
by Henry Sussman
Book 108
Oedipus Tyrannus: Tragic Heroism and the Limits of Knowledge
by Charles Segal
Book 109
Endgame: The Ashbin Play
by Arthur N. Athanason
Book 110
The Plague: Fiction and Resistance
by Steven G. Kellman
Book 111
Saint Joan: Playing With Fire
by Arnold Silver
Book 112
All the King's Men: The Search for a Usable Past
by Harold Woodell
Book 113
Troilus and Criseyde: The Poem and the Frame
by Allen J. Frantzen
Book 114
The Catcher in the Rye: Innocence Under Pressure
by Sanford Pinsker
Book 115
The Crucible: Politics, Property, and Pretense
by James J. Martine
Book 116
Washington Square: Styles of Money
by Ian F.A. Bell
Book 117
A Passage to India: Nation and Narration
by Judith Scherer Herz
Book 118
Oliver Twist: Whole Heart and Soul
by Richard J. Dunn
Book 119
The Death of Ivan Ilich: An Interpretation
by Gary R. Jahn
Book 120
Pere Goriot: Anatomy of a Troubled World
by Martin Kanes
Book 121
Ethan Frome: A Nightmare of Need
by Marlene Springer
Book 122
The Republic: The Odyssey of Philosophy
by Jacob Howland
Book 123
Lady Chatterley's Lover: Loss and Hope
by William K. Buckley
Book 124
Main Street: The Revolt of Carol Kennicott
by Martin Bucco
Book 125
Ivanhoe: The Mask of Chivalry
by Paul J. Degategno
Book 126
Frankenstein: Mary Shelley's Wedding Guest
by Mary Lowe-Evans
Book 128
Charlotte's Web
by John W. Griffith
Book 129
All Quiet on the Western Front: Literary Analysis and Cultural Context
by Richard Arthur Firda
Book 130
The Awakening: A Novel of Beginnings
by Joyce Dyer
Book 131
The Cherry Orchard: Catastrophe and Comedy
by Donald Rayfield
Book 132
Twayne's Masterwork Studies No. 132
by Melvyn New
Book 133
The Fall
by Brian T. Fitch
Book 134
Doctor Faustus: Divine in Show
by T. McAlindon
Book 135
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym: And the Abyss of Interpretation
by J. Gerald Kennedy
Book 136
Heartbreak House: preludes of apocalypse
by A.M. Gibbs
Book 137
Tender Is the Night: The Broken Universe
by Milton R. Stern
Book 138
Book 139
To Kill a Mockingbird: Threatening Boundaries
by Claudia Durst Johnson
Book 140
Death in Venice
by T. J. Reed
Book 141
The Wind in the Willows (A Fragmented Arcadia)
by Peter Hunt
Book 142
The Call of the Wild: A Naturalistic Romance
by Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin
Book 143
The Last of the Mohicans: Civil Savagery and Savage Civility
by John P. McWilliams
Book 144
Book 145
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Michael Patrick Gillespie
Book 146
War And Peace
by Rimvydas Šilbajoris
Book 147
Of Mice and Men: A Kinship of Powerlessness
by Charlotte Cook Hadella
Book 148
Go Down, Moses: The Miscegenation of Time
by Arthur F. Kinney
Book 149
The Hobbit: A Journey into Maturity
by William H. Green
Book 150
The Little Prince: A Reverie of Substance
by James E. Higgins
Book 151
A Room of One's Own
by Ellen Bayuk Rosenman
Book 152
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Detecting Social Order
by Rosemary Jann
Book 153
Lolita: A Janus Text
by Lance Olsen
Book 154
The Return of the Native: Saint George Defeated
by Brian Thomas, Thomas Hardy
Book 155
Pygmalion
by Charles A. Berst
Book 156
Winnie-The-Pooh and the House at Pooh Corner: Recovering Arcadia
by Paula T. Connolly
Book 157
Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
by Edgar F. Harden
Book 158
Gulliver's Travels: The Politics of Satire
by Ronald Knowles
Book 159
A Little Princess: Gender and Empire
by Roderick McGillis
Book 160
Les Miserables: Conversion, Revolution, Redemption
by Kathryn M. Grossman
Book 161
The Secret Garden: Nature's Magic
by Phyllis Bixler
Book 162
The Age of Innocence: A Novel of Ironic Nostaglia
by Linda Wagner-Martin
Book 165
The Ambassadors
by Richard A. Hocks
Book 168
Dracula
by Carol A. Senf
Book 169
The Fountainhead
by Douglas J. Den Uyl
Book 170
Little Women
by Elizabeth Lennox Keyser
Book 171
Book 172
On The Road
by Robert Holton
Book 174
Atlas Shrugged: Manifesto of the Mind
by Mimi Reisel Gladstein