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"Summary: "A Bronte Encyclopedia is a complete guide to the life and work of the most notable literary family of the nineteenth century. Comprising approximately 2000 alphabetically arranged entries, this authoritative volume: brings to light the significant people and places that influenced the Brontes' lives; defines and describes the Brontes' fictional characters and settings; incorporates original literary judgments and analyses of characters and motives; includes coverage of Charlotte's unfinished novels and her and Branwell's juvenile writings; and features a full range of illustrations."--BOOK JACKET"

"ABSTRACTWilla Cather wrote 12 novels, more than 60 short stories, several poems, and a good number of critical essays. Her writings showed characters from all walks of life, and her settings were in quite different backgrounds and of quite different periods. Her works have never been noisy or self-assertive and yet Willa Cather, as Mildred Bennet said, has not needed a revival in the sense that there has been a Fitzgerald revival, a Sherwood Anderson revival, and a Nathanael West revival. (See Bennet, 1961: vii) In The World of Willa Cather, Mildred Bennet writes that when Charles Poore reviewed her book in 1951, he wrote that there was no need for a Willa Cather revival "the world has never lost its taste for her excellent writing." She believes that the same assertion can be made quite as confidently today: from the response of a new generation of readers it is evident that the taste has been inherited; the flow of critical writing which began shortly after Miss Cather's death shows no sign of slacking off; and in colleges and universities interest in her life and work is decidedly on the increase . . ." (Bennet, 1961: vii). Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, on her first encounter with the works of Willa Cather said that she had "discovered a genuine, first-class work of American fiction, in which a young woman of prairie background had conceived her world with new eyes and had made of it a work of art . . . ." (Sergeant, 1953: 11) Willa Cather's other biographers have written with much admiration for her works and most of her critics have been generous with their reviews. Even critics who have not seen eye to eye with her have treated her with respect. These critics who have written for and against her have such formidable names like H. L. Mencken, Carl Van Doren, Edmund Wilson, Sinclair Lewis, T. K. Whipple, Joseph Wood Krutch, Rebecca West, E. K. Brown, David Daiches, Elizabeth Moorhead, Louise Bogan, Granville Hicks, Lionel Trilling, Alfred Kazin, Maxwell Geismar, George Schloss, Henry Steele Commager, Morton D. Zabel, Howard Mumford H. Jones, Leon Edel, James Schroeter, and many others. (See Schroeter, 1968). What is it that pulls so many to Willa Cather? Why has "the world never lost its taste for her excellent writing"? What did Willa Cather "conceive" about her world so much so that she "made of it a work of art"? Upon reading and examining Willa Cather's works, I strongly suggest that the element which attracts most readers to her writing is the "American Dream." This is the topic I aim to write about in this thesis--Willa Cather and the American Dream. I will show that the works of Willa Cather reflect the American dream, especially the dreams of freedom, success, and the pastoral vision. "

"ABSTRAKSepanjang masa kariernya sebagai penulis, yang lamanya sekitar tiga puluh tujuh tahun, Sinclair Lewis telah menulis dua puluh dua buah novel, dua buah kumpulan ceritera pendek dan esei, tiga buah sandiwara, dan ratusan tulisan lainnya mengenai berbagai topik. Tidak ada satu bidang dalam kehidupan di Amerika yang luput dari pengamatannya.Hike and the Aeroplane adalah karyanya yang pertama, yang ditulisnya di tahun 1912 dengan nama samaran Tom Graham, dan yang merupakan ceritera bagi anak laki-laki. The Job dan Ann Vickers mengisahkan perjalanan karier wanita. Jika Main Street dan Babbitt mengisahkan kehidupan dan tingkah laku orang di kota kecil Amerika, Dodsworth dan World so Wide menceriterakan orang Amerika di Eropa. Elmer Gantry adalah ungkapan pendapat Lewis mengenai kaum pendeta, sedangkan Kingsblood Royal_ mengupas masalah rasial kulit hitam. Meskipun bukan biografi, Free Air didasarkan atas kesan-kesan Lewis setelah dia bersama istrinya mengadakan perjalanan keliling dengan mengendarai mobil di tanah airnya. Sedangkan Mantrap ditulis setelah Lewis mengunjungi daerah pedalaman Kanada bersama kakaknya, Dr. Claude Lewis. Arrowsmith merupakan novel mengenai bidang kedokteran, The Man Who Knew Coolidge dan It Cantt Happen Here menyinggung masalah politik, serta Cass Timberlane mempersoalkan kehidupan perkawinan. Demikianiah hanya beberapa contoh yang menunjukkan betapa luasnya ruang lingkup perhatian Lewis yang dituangkannya dalam novel-novelnya.Di samping menjadi novelis Lewis juga sering bertindak sebagai pengkritik sastra, sebagaimana tampak dari berbagai ulasan yang ditulisnya tentang hasil karya rekan-rekan seprofesinya. Kritik-kritik demikian sering dimuat dalam beraneka majalah, misalnya "Floyd Dell," dalam The Bookman,."John Ames Mitchell, Novelist, Editor and Artist," dalam The Book News Monthly, atau "Ioway and the Countess," tinjauan tentang karya Carl Van Hechten "The Tattooed Countess", dalam Saturday Review of Literature.Isi tulisan-tulisan dalam berbagai majalah tersebut tidak terbatas kepada kritik sastra atau bidang kesusastraan semata, melainkan memuat bermacam-macam topik, dari soal periklanan, yang ditulisnya dalam "Gladvertising," sampai kepada bidang perhotelan dalam karangannya yang berjudul "Sinclair Lewis Finds Italy's Inns a Model for U.S. Hotels"