Families in literature
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David Copperfield
At home in the city
Archetypes of the family in literature
Family secrets and the psychoanalysis of narrative
The family in Greek history
The fiction of Ruth Rendell
Worrying the line
Genealogical Fictions
The family saga in the South
Mary Shelley
The American Abraham
Marriage and the Family Through Science Fiction
Outlaw Fathers in Victorian and Modern British Literature
Buddenbrooks
Crises of realism
Virginia Woolf
A southern weave of women
Critical essays on William Faulkner
Offspring Fictions Salman Rushdies Family Novels
David Copperfield and Hard Times
The family in literature for young readers
The Snopes dilemma: Faulkner's trilogy
Medieval family roles
Necessary madness
Domestic arrangements in early modern England
The Sackett Companion
Faulkner's Families
Critical essays on William Faulkner
Colonial fantasies