Twayne's masterwork studies

Examines how the Alice books address issues that concerned mid-Victorians on the brink of the modern era.

Includes discussions of the work's influence, historical context, and critical reception in addition to a chronology and bibliography.

Discusses the influence, historical context, and critical reception of Chopin's novel.

Examines the historical and social influences that contributed to the writing of Charles Dickens' "Hard Times," and includes analyses of the novel, considering the view point of each character, and looking at the work from several literary perspectives.

Offers biographical information about early twentieth-century author Virginia Woolf along with an analysis of her 1929 feminist essay "A Room of One's Own.".