TWENTIETH CENTURY INTERPRETATIONS (PRENTICE-HALL/SPECTRUM BOOKS) - CHECKLIST
Series Note: Twentieth Century Interpretations was a series of compact critical anthologies published by Prentice-Hall of Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, mainly between 1968 and 1983 as part of its Spectrum Books program.
General editor Maynard Mack, a Yale University professor, supervised the series, while each volume was prepared by a specialist editor.
Most books focused on a single literary work and usually carried the subtitle "A Collection of Critical Essays". They combined an editorial introduction, selected modern criticism, and a bibliography in an inexpensive format designed chiefly for college teaching and individual study. Subjects ranged from classical, medieval, and Renaissance literature to modern fiction, poetry, and drama.
The series should be distinguished from Prentice-Hall's related Twentieth Century Views, which generally treated an author rather than one work.
By presenting differing critical approaches side by side, Twentieth Century Interpretations offered students an accessible introduction to scholarly debate and now preserves a valuable record of mid-twentieth-century literary criticism.
(A) Title and Editor(s) arranged by Serial Number
S-801. Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Waste Land, edited by Jay Martin
S-802. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Henry V, edited by Ronald Berman
S-803. Twentieth Century Interpretations of All for Love, edited by Bruce King
S-804. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Walden, edited by Richard Ruland
S-805. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Samson Agonistes, edited by Galbraith M. Crump
S-806. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Twelfth Night, edited by Walter N. King
S-807. Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Frogs, edited by David J. Littlefield
S-808. Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Iceman Cometh, edited by John Henry Raleigh
S-809. Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Sound and the Fury, edited by Michael H. Cowan
S-810. Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Great Gatsby, edited by Ernest H. Lockridge
S-811. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Hamlet, edited by David Bevington
S-812. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, edited by Claude M. Simpson
S-813. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Tom Jones, edited by Martin C. Battestin
S-814. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Pamela, edited by Rosemary Cowler
S-815. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Arrowsmith, edited by Robert J. Griffin
S-816. Twentieth Century Interpretations of As You Like It, edited by Jay L. Halio
S-817. Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Duchess of Malfi, edited by Norman Rabkin
S-818. Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Book of Job, edited by Paul S. Sanders
S-819. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, edited by Denton Fox
S-820. Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Scarlet Letter, edited by John C. Gerber
S-821. Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Portrait of a Lady, edited by Peter Buitenhuis
S-822. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Henry IV, Part Two, edited by David P. Young
S-823. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Gulliver’s Travels, edited by Frank Brady
S-824. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Utopia, edited by William Nelson
S-825. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Gray’s Elegy, edited by Herbert W. Starr
S-826. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Wuthering Heights, edited by Thomas A. Vogler
S-827. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Euripides’ Alcestis, edited by John R. Wilson
S-828. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Much Ado About Nothing, edited by Walter R. Davis
S-829. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Keats’s Odes, edited by Jack Stillinger
S-830. Twentieth Century Interpretations of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, edited by William M. Schutte
S-831. Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Old Man and the Sea, edited by Katharine T. Jobes
S-832. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Dubliners, edited by Peter K. Garrett
S-833. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Doctor Faustus, edited by Willard Farnham
S-834. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Oedipus Rex, edited by Michael J. O’Brien
S-835. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Julius Caesar, edited by Leonard F. Dean
S-836. Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Castle, edited by Peter F. Neumeyer
S-837. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Bleak House, edited by Jacob Korg
S-838. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Poe’s Tales, edited by William L. Howarth
S-839. Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Tempest, edited by Hallett Smith
S-840.† Twentieth Century Interpretations of Robinson Crusoe, edited by Frank H. Ellis
S-841. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Pride and Prejudice, edited by Elliot Rubinstein
S-842. Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Fall of the House of Usher, edited by Thomas Woodson
S-843. Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Ambassadors, edited by Albert E. Stone, Jr.
S-844. Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, edited by James D. Boulger
S-845. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Hard Times, edited by Paul Edward Gray
S-846. Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Playboy of the Western World, edited by Thomas R. Whitaker
S-847. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Lord Jim, edited by Robert E. Kuehn
S-848. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Songs of Innocence and of Experience, edited by Morton D. Paley
S-849. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Tess of the d’Urbervilles, edited by Albert J. LaValley
S-850. Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Rape of the Lock, edited by G. S. Rousseau
S-851. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Vanity Fair, edited by M. G. Sundell
S-852. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Don Juan, edited by Edward E. Bostetter
S-853. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Endgame, edited by Bell Gale Chevigny
S-854. Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Praise of Folly, edited by Kathleen Williams
S-855.† Twentieth Century Interpretations of Major Barbara, edited by Rose A. Zimbardo
S-856. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Light in August, edited by David L. Minter
S-857. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Sons and Lovers, edited by Judith Farr
S-858. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Women in Love, edited by Stephen J. Miko
S-859. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, edited by James D. O’Hara
S-860. Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Nigger of the “Narcissus”, edited by John A. Palmer
S-861. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Measure for Measure, edited by George L. Geckle
S-862. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Romeo and Juliet, edited by Douglas Cole
S-863. Twentieth Century Interpretations of A Farewell to Arms, edited by Jay Gellens
S-864. Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Merchant of Venice, edited by Sylvan Barnet
S-865. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Coriolanus, edited by James E. Phillips, Jr.
S-866. Twentieth Century Interpretations of To the Lighthouse, edited by Thomas A. Vogler
S-867. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Moll Flanders, edited by Robert C. Elliott
S-868. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Henry IV, Part One, edited by R. J. Dorius
S-869. Twentieth Century Interpretations of A Passage to India, edited by Andrew Rutherford
S-870. Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Turn of the Screw, and Other Tales, edited by Jane P. Tompkins
S-871. Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Rainbow, edited by Mark Kinkead-Weekes
S-872. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Invisible Man, edited by John M. Reilly
S-873. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Boswell’s Life of Johnson, edited by James L. Clifford
S-874. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Billy Budd, edited by Howard P. Vincent
S-875. Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Eve of St. Agnes, edited by Allan Danzig
S-876. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Murder in the Cathedral, edited by David R. Clark
S-877. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Miss Lonelyhearts, edited by Thomas H. Jackson
S-878. Twentieth Century Interpretations of 1984, edited by Samuel Hynes
S-879. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Absalom, Absalom!, edited by Arnold Goldman
S-880. Twentieth Century Interpretations of A Streetcar Named Desire, edited by Jordan Y. Miller
S-881. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Richard II, edited by Paul M. Cubeta
S-882. Twentieth Century Interpretations of A Tale of Two Cities, edited by Charles E. Beckwith
S-883. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Native Son, edited by Houston A. Baker, Jr.
S-884. Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Crucible, edited by John H. Ferres
S-885. Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Pardoner’s Tale, edited by Dewey R. Faulkner
S-886. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Crime and Punishment, edited by Robert Louis Jackson
S-887. Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Beggar’s Opera, edited by Yvonne Noble
S-888. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Antony and Cleopatra, edited by Mark Rose
S-889. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Moby-Dick, edited by Michael T. Gilmore
S-890.† Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Trial, edited by James Rolleston
S-891. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Macbeth, edited by Terence Hawkes
S-892.† Twentieth Century Interpretations of All the King’s Men, edited by Robert H. Chambers
S-893. Twentieth Century Interpretations of King Lear, edited by Janet Adelman
Bibliographical qualification
The volume titles and editors marked † are securely documented, but their S-numbers—S-840, S-855, S-890 and S-892—are presently reconstructed from their positions between independently confirmed adjacent numbers. I have not yet located records that explicitly print those four S-numbers.
Three later volumes are documented as part of Twentieth Century Interpretations, but the catalogue records examined do not give them Spectrum S-numbers:
- Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Grapes of Wrath, edited by Robert Con Davis, 1982.
- Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Glass Menagerie, edited by R. B. Parker, 1983.
- Twentieth Century Interpretations of Death of a Salesman, edited by Helene Koon, 1983.
- Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Odyssey, edited by Howard W. Clarke. 1983.
(B) Short Title list of Titles arranged in Alphabetical Order
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Arrowsmith
The Beggar's Opera
Bleak House
The Castle
The Crucible
Dubliners
A Farewell to Arms
The Frogs
The Glass Menagerie
The Great Gatsby
Gulliver's Travels
Hamlet
Hard Times
The Iceman Cometh
Invisible Man
Light in August
Measure for Measure
Moll Flanders
Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable
1984
Oedipus Rex
Pamela
The Pardoner's Tale
A Passage to India
The Portrait of a Lady
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Robinson Crusoe
The Scarlet Letter
Sons and Lovers
A Streetcar Named Desire
To the Lighthouse
Tom Jones
Utopia
Women in Love
Wuthering Heights
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