Anthologized Criticism

Edward Ahearn

• Visionary Fictions:  Apocalyptic Writing from Blake to the Modern Age.  New Haven:  Yale UP, 1996.

Jerry Bryant

• The Open Decision:  The Contemporary American Novel and Its Intellectual Background.  New York:  Free Press, 1970.

Keith Cohen

• Writing in a Film Age:  Essays by Contemporary Novelists.  Niwot:  U of Colorado P, 1991.

Leslie Fiedler

• Waiting for the End.  New York:  Stein and Day, 1964.

Tony Goodstone

• The Pulps:  Fifty Years of American Pop Culture.  New York:  Chelsea House, 1970.

James Haught

• 2000 Years of Disbelief:  Famous People with the Courage to Doubt.  Amherst:  Prometheus, 1996.

Josephine Hendin

• Vulnerable People:  A View of American Fiction Since 1945.  New York:  Oxford UP, 1978.

Alfred Kazin

• Bright Book of Life:  American Novelist and Storytellers from Hemingway to Mailer.  Boston:  Little, Brown, 1973.

Richard Kostelanetz

• American Writing Today.  Troy:  Whitston, 1991.

John Lardas

• The Bop Apocalypse:  The Religious Visions of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs.  Urbana:  U of Illinois P, 2001.

Mary McCarthy

• The Writing on the Wall and Other Essays.  New York:  Harcourt, 1970.

Rod Mengham

• An Introduction to Contemporary Fiction:  International Writing in English Since 1970.  Cambridge:  Polity, 1999.

Donald Miles

• The American Novel in the Twentieth Century.  New York:  David and Charles, 1978.

Cary Nelson

• The Incarnate Word:  Literature and Verbal Space.  Urbana:  U of Illinois P, 1973.

John Payne

• Conquest of the New Word:  Experimental Fiction and Translation in the Americas.  Austin:  U of Texas P, 1993.

Alvin Seltzer

• Chaos in the Novel:  The Novel in Chaos.  New York:  Schocken, 1974.

Steven Shaviro

• Doom Patrols. New York:  Serpent's Tail, 1997.

Ted Solotaroff

• The Red Hot Vacuum and Other Pieces on the Writing of the Sixties.  New York:  Atheneum, 1970.

Tony Tanner

• City of Words:  American Fiction, 1950-1970.  New York:  Harper, 1971.

James Thomas

• The Revolutionary Hero:  A Phenomenological Investigation of the Literature of Jean-Paul Sartre and Five American Novelists: Terry Southern, John Barth, William Burroughs, Saul Bellow, and Norman Mailer.  Michigan:  University Center, 1971. 

John Tytell

• Naked Angels:  The Lives and Literature of the Beat Generation.  New York:  McGraw-Hill, 1976.

John Vernon

• The Garden and the Map:  Schizophrenia in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture.  Urbana:  U of Illinois P, 1973.

Craig Hansen Werner

• Paradoxical Resolutions:  American Fiction Since James Joyce.  Urbana:  U of Illinois P, 1982.

Peter Whitmer

• Aquarius Revisited:  Seven Who Created the Sixties Counterculture that Changed America.  New York: Macmillan, 1987.

R. Gerald Young

• Cold War Blues:  A study of Social Influences on the Literature of Burroughs and Kerouac.  Notre Dame:  University of Notre Dame, 1989.