TWENTIETH CENTURY VIEWS (PRENTICE-HALL) - CHECKLIST
Series Note: Twentieth Century Views was a series of critical anthologies published by Prentice-Hall, chiefly within its Spectrum Books program, from 1962 into the 1980s. General editor Maynard Mack, a Yale University professor, conceived the series as an affordable introduction to modern literary criticism for students, teachers and general readers.
Each volume normally focused on a major author, literary movement or genre and combined a scholarly introduction with selected essays, biographical or chronological material and a bibliography.
The series' range was broad. It embraced ancient writers such as Homer, Sophocles, Euripides and Virgil; canonical British and American figures from Donne, Milton and Swift to Melville, Dickinson and Henry James; European authors including Dostoevsky, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Kafka and Sartre; and major modern dramatists and poets. Later volumes widened the program beyond individual authors to subjects such as detective fiction, the Western, early American literature, women short-story writers, modern Black writing, Chicano literature and the theatre of Black Americans.
Issued in cloth and paperback, the books became widely used in schools, universities and libraries. During the early 1980s several titles were revised as "New Perspectives" volumes. The series reflected the post-war expansion of literary studies and helped make influential academic criticism accessible in a compact, inexpensive and classroom-friendly form to a broad international reading public.
The series should be distinguished from Prentice-Hall's related Twentieth Century Interpretations, which generally treated one work rather than an author or authors.
(A) Titles and Editors arranged by Serial Number
NOTE: In the following list the the recurring subtitle, A Collection of Critical Essays, has been omitted.
S-TC-1. CAMUS, edited by Germaine Brée
S-TC-2. T. S. ELIOT, edited by Hugh Kenner
S-TC-3. ROBERT FROST, edited by James M. Cox
S-TC-4. PROUST, edited by René Girard
S-TC-5. WHITMAN, edited by Roy Harvey Pearce
S-TC-6. SINCLAIR LEWIS, edited by Mark Schorer
S-TC-7. STENDHAL, edited by Victor Brombert
S-TC-8. HEMINGWAY, edited by Robert P. Weeks
S-TC-9. FIELDING, edited by Ronald Paulson
S-TC-10. THOREAU, edited by Sherman Paul
S-TC-11. BRECHT, edited by Peter Demetz
S-TC-12. EMERSON, edited by Milton R. Konvitz and Stephen E. Whicher
S-TC-13. MELVILLE, edited by Richard Chase
S-TC-14. LORCA, edited by Manuel Durán
S-TC-15. HOMER, edited by George Steiner and Robert Fagles
S-TC-16. DOSTOEVSKY, edited by René Wellek
S-TC-17. KAFKA, edited by Ronald Gray
S-TC-18. BAUDELAIRE, edited by Henri Peyre
S-TC-19. JOHN DONNE, edited by Helen Gardner
S-TC-20. EDITH WHARTON, edited by Irving Howe
S-TC-21. SARTRE, edited by Edith Kern
S-TC-22. BEN JONSON, edited by Jonas A. Barish
S-TC-23. YEATS, edited by John Unterecker
S-TC-24. D. H. LAWRENCE, edited by Mark Spilka
S-TC-25. HARDY, edited by Albert Guerard
S-TC-26. JANE AUSTEN, edited by Ian Watt
S-TC-27. F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, edited by Arthur Mizener
S-TC-28. EMILY DICKINSON, edited by Richard B. Sewall
S-TC-29. EZRA POUND, edited by Walter Sutton
S-TC-30. MARK TWAIN, edited by Henry Nash Smith
S-TC-31. BYRON, edited by Paul West
S-TC-32. DRYDEN, edited by Bernard N. Schilling
S-TC-33. WALLACE STEVENS, edited by Marie Borroff
S-TC-34. HENRY JAMES, edited by Leon Edel
S-TC-35. SWIFT, edited by Ernest Tuveson
S-TC-36. THOMAS MANN, edited by Henry Hatfield
S-TC-37. MALRAUX, edited by R. W. B. Lewis
S-TC-38. AUDEN, edited by Monroe K. Spears
S-TC-39. O’NEILL, edited by John Gassner
S-TC-40. SHAKESPEARE: THE TRAGEDIES, edited by Alfred Harbage
S-TC-41. MOLIÈRE, edited by Jacques Guicharnaud
S-TC-42. FLAUBERT, edited by Raymond Giraud
S-TC-43. KEATS, edited by Walter Jackson Bate
S-TC-44. MARLOWE, edited by Clifford Leech
S-TC-45. SHAKESPEARE: THE HISTORIES, edited by Eugene M. Waith
S-TC-46. DANTE, edited by John Freccero
S-TC-47. SHAKESPEARE: THE COMEDIES, edited by Kenneth Muir
S-TC-48. SAMUEL JOHNSON, edited by Donald J. Greene
S-TC-49. SHELLEY, edited by George M. Ridenour
S-TC-50. G. B. SHAW, edited by R. J. Kaufmann
S-TC-51. SAMUEL BECKETT, edited by Martin Esslin
S-TC-52. IBSEN, edited by Rolf Fjelde
S-TC-53. CONRAD, edited by Marvin Mudrick
S-TC-54. SOPHOCLES, edited by Thomas M. Woodard
S-TC-55. HAWTHORNE, edited by A. N. Kaul
S-TC-56. DYLAN THOMAS, edited by C. B. Cox
S-TC-57. HOPKINS, edited by Geoffrey H. Hartman
S-TC-58. BLAKE, edited by Northrop Frye
S-TC-59. FORSTER, edited by Malcolm Bradbury
S-TC-60. MILTON, edited by Louis L. Martz
S-TC-61. WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, edited by J. Hillis Miller
S-TC-62. VIRGIL, edited by Steele Commager
S-TC-63. POE, edited by Robert Regan
S-TC-64. RESTORATION DRAMATISTS, edited by Earl Miner
S-TC-65. FAULKNER, edited by Robert Penn Warren
S-TC-66. STEPHEN CRANE, edited by Maurice Bassan
S-TC-67. PIRANDELLO, edited by Glauco Cambon
S-TC-68. TOLSTOY, edited by Ralph E. Matlaw
S-TC-69. THE MODERN AMERICAN THEATER, edited by Alvin B. Kernan
S-TC-70. COLERIDGE, edited by Kathleen Coburn
S-TC-71. CHEKHOV, edited by Robert Louis Jackson
S-TC-72. DICKENS, edited by Martin Price
S-TC-73. GOETHE, edited by Victor Lange
S-TC-74. MODERN BRITISH DRAMATISTS, edited by John Russell Brown
S-TC-75. THACKERAY, edited by Alexander Welsh
S-TC-76. EURIPIDES, edited by Erich Segal
S-TC-77. LAURENCE STERNE, edited by John Traugott
S-TC-78. VOLTAIRE, edited by William F. Bottiglia
S-TC-79. ROBERT LOWELL, edited by Thomas Parkinson
S-TC-80. SPENSER, edited by Harry Berger, Jr.
S-TC-81. ANDREW MARVELL, edited by George deF. Lord
S-TC-82. THE BEOWULF POET, edited by Donald K. Fry
S-TC-83. A. E. HOUSMAN, edited by Christopher Ricks
S-TC-84. ARTHUR MILLER, edited by Robert W. Corrigan
S-TC-85. SAMUEL RICHARDSON, edited by John Carroll
S-TC-86. MARIANNE MOORE, edited by Charles Tomlinson
S-TC-87. OSCAR WILDE, edited by Richard Ellmann
S-TC-88. GIDE, edited by David Littlejohn
S-TC-89. CERVANTES, edited by Lowry Nelson, Jr.
S-TC-90. GEORGE ELIOT, edited by George R. Creeger
S-TC-91. EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON, edited by Francis Murphy
S-TC-92. THE BRONTËS, edited by Ian Gregor
S-TC-93. VIRGINIA WOOLF, edited by Claire Sprague
S-TC-94. NATHANAEL WEST, edited by Jay Martin
S-TC-95. STRINDBERG, edited by Otto Reinert
S-TC-96. DREISER, edited by John Lydenberg
S-TC-97. MODERN BLACK NOVELISTS, edited by M. G. Cooke
S-TC-98. E. E. CUMMINGS, edited by Norman Friedman
S-TC-99. AESCHYLUS, edited by Marsh H. McCall, Jr.
S-TC-100. STEINBECK, edited by Robert Murray Davis
S-TC-101. NORMAN MAILER, edited by Leo Braudy
S-TC-102. WORDSWORTH, edited by M. H. Abrams
S-TC-103. PINTER, edited by Arthur Ganz
S-TC-104. POPE, edited by J. V. Guerinot
S-TC-105. GRAHAM GREENE, edited by Samuel Hynes
S-TC-106. MODERN BLACK POETS, edited by Donald B. Gibson
S-TC-107. MATTHEW ARNOLD, edited by David J. DeLaura
S-TC-108. IONESCO, edited by Rosette C. Lamont
S-TC-109. THOMAS WOLFE, edited by Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
S-TC-110. HESSE, edited by Theodore Ziolkowski
S-TC-111. JOYCE, edited by William M. Chace
S-TC-112. RALPH ELLISON, edited by John Hersey
S-TC-113. JAMES BALDWIN, edited by Keneth Kinnamon
S-TC-114. DOS PASSOS, edited by Andrew Hook
S-TC-115. SHERWOOD ANDERSON, edited by Walter B. Rideout
S-TC-115.No issued volume bearing S-TC-116 has yet been located.
S-TC-117. THURBER, edited by Charles S. Holmes
S-TC-118. ALDOUS HUXLEY, edited by Robert E. Kuehn
S-TC-119. GEORGE ORWELL, edited by Raymond Williams
S-TC-120. KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, edited by Robert Penn Warren
S-TC-121. SEAN O’CASEY, edited by Thomas Kilroy
S-TC-122. SAUL BELLOW, edited by Earl Rovit
S-TC-123. BERNARD MALAMUD, edited by Leslie A. Field and Joyce W. Field
S-TC-124. GENET, edited by Peter Brooks and Joseph Halpern
S-TC-125. EDWARD ALBEE, edited by C. W. E. Bigsby
S-TC-126. SOLZHENITSYN, edited by Kathryn Feuer
S-TC-127. H. G. WELLS, edited by Bernard Bergonzi
S-TC-128. DANIEL DEFOE, edited by Max Byrd
S-TC-129. CONTEMPORARY WOMEN NOVELISTS, edited by Patricia Meyer Spacks
S-TC-130. SCIENCE FICTION, edited by Mark Rose
S-TC-131. TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, edited by Stephen S. Stanton
S-TC-132. ARTHUR KOESTLER, edited by Murray A. Sperber
No issued volume bearing S-TC-133 has yet been located.
S-TC-134. PYNCHON, edited by Edward Mendelson
S-TC-135. PASTERNAK, edited by Victor Erlich
No issued volumes bearing S-TC-136 or S-TC-137 have yet been located.
S-TC-138. IMAMU AMIRI BARAKA (LEROI JONES), edited by Kimberly W. Benston
S-TC-139. THE WESTERN, edited by James K. Folsom
S-TC-140. MODERN CHICANO WRITERS, edited by Joseph Sommers and Tomás Ybarra-Frausto
S-TC-141. THE THEATER OF BLACK AMERICANS, edited by Errol Hill — two volumes
S-TC-142. No separately numbered title bearing S-TC-142 has yet been located.
S-TC-143. JOHN UPDIKE, edited by David Thorburn and Howard Eiland
S-TC-144. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, edited by Brian M. Barbour
S-TC-145. JAMES FENIMORE COOPER, edited by Wayne Fields
S-TC-146. No issued volume bearing S-TC-146 has yet been located.
S-TC-147. ROBERT BROWNING, edited by Harold Bloom and Adrienne Munich
S-TC-148. TENNYSON, edited by Elizabeth A. Francis
S-TC-149. ROBERT PENN WARREN, edited by Richard Gray
S-TC-150. WOMEN WRITERS OF THE SHORT STORY, edited by Heather McClave
S-TC-151. DETECTIVE FICTION, edited by Robin W. Winks
S-TC-152. EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE, edited by Michael T. Gilmore
S-TC-153. HART CRANE, edited by Alan Trachtenberg
S-TC-154. FREUD, edited by Perry Meisel
S-TC-155. LITERATURE OF THE OCCULT, edited by Peter B. Messent
S-TC-156. THE AMERICAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, edited by Albert E. Stone
Extra Note:
One additional original collection appeared in 1984, but its S-TC number is not stated in the accessible catalogue records, as follows:
[S-TC number not established]. RICHARD WRIGHT, edited by Richard Macksey and Frank E. Moorer
That volume is firmly documented as a Prentice-Hall Twentieth Century Views title published in 1984, but assigning it S-TC-157 without direct evidence would be conjectural.
(B) Hand List of Titles arranged in Alphabetical Order
Arnold, Matthew
Auden
Austen, Jane
Baldwin, James
Baudelaire
Beckett, Samuel
Beowulf Poet, The
Blake
Brecht
Byron
Camus
Cervantes
Chekhov
Coleridge
Conrad
Cooper, James Fenimore
Defoe
Dickens
Dickens, Charles
Donne, John
Dostoyevsky
Dryden
Eliot, T. S.
Faulkner
Fielding
Fitzgerald
Forster
Franklin, Benjamin
Frost, Robert
Genet
Gide
Goethe
Greene, Graham
Hardy
Hawthorne
Hopkins
Ionesco
James, Henry
Johnson, Samuel
Jonson, Ben
Kafka
Keats
Koestler
Lawrence, D. H.
Mailer, Norman
Malamud, Bernard
Malraux
Mann, Thomas
Marlowe
Marvell, Andrew
Melville
Milton
Modern British Dramatists
Modern Chicano Writers
Moliere
Moore, Mariane
O'Casey, Sean
O'Neill
Orwell, George
Pope
Porter, Katherine Anne
Pound, Ezra
Proust
Richardson, Samuel
Sartre
Shakespeare: The Comedies
Shakespeare: The Histories
Shaw, G. B.
Shelley
Sophocles
Spenser
Steinbeck
Steinbeck
Stendhal
Sterne, Laurence
Swift
Thackeray
Thomas, Dylan
Tolstoy
Twain, Mark
Updike, John
Virgil
Warren, Robert Penn
West, Nathaniel
Western, The
Whitman
Wilde, Oscar
Williams, Tennessee
Williams, William Carlos
Wolfe, Thomas
Wordsworth
Yeats
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