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In the late 1930s, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, and Ernest Hemingway wrote novels that won critical acclaim and popular success: The Grapes of Wrath, Native Son, and For Whom the Bell Tolls. All three writers were involved with the Left at the time, and that commitment informed their fiction. Milton Cohen examines their motives for involvement with the Left; their novels' political themes; and why they separated from the Left after the novels were published. These writers were deeply conflicted about their political commitments, and Cohen explores the tensions that arose between politics and art, resulting in the abandonment of a political attachment.

Marleen S. Barr remembers a titan of science fiction.

From his World War I service in Italy through his transformational return visits during the decades that followed, Ernest Hemingway's Italian experiences were fundamental to his artistic development. Hemingway and Italy offers essays from top scholars, exciting new voices, and people who knew Hemingway during his Italian days, examining how his adopted homeland shaped his writing and his legacy.

A biographical encyclopedia of American and British Christian-themed writers from World War II to the present, covering acclaimed literary works and popular evangelical fiction. Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Fiction offers 90 alphabetically organized entries covering the field�s most important writers. Each entry includes a brief biography, religious and educational background, a survey of major works and themes, and a summary of critical response, as well as a bibliography of major works and criticism.

Louis-Ferdinand Céline was one of the most innovative novelists of the twentieth century, and his influence both in his native France and beyond remains huge. This book sheds light on Céline's novels, which drew extensively on his complex life: he rose from humble beginnings to worldwide literary fame, then dramatically fell from grace only to return, belatedly, to the limelight. Céline's subversive writing remains fresh and urgent today, despite his controversial political views and inflammatory pamphlets that threatened to ruin his reputation. This biography explores new material and reminds us why the author belongs in the pantheon of modern greats.

While Heart of Darkness (1899) is a touchstone for imperial violence, it is also a text full of men's caregiving. This paper investigates the tenderness of the novella's malemale caregiving relationships--not as an antithesis to violence but as an integral component of imperialist agendas. Across global newspapers and journals, nineteenth- century thinkers debated how to monitor white men's unauthorized aggression. These texts often landed on a paradoxical solution of mutual surveillance, or what I call \"brother's keeper\" logic, to supplement the limitations of administrative control. Joseph Conrad's novella explores the twisted emotional bonds--and the bodily risks--of such ideas. In this text, the imperial brother's keeper rhetoric succumbs to an unavoidable master/ servant dynamic, showing that imperialism's ideology cannot support notions of equality even among white agents of empire.