The Optimist's Daughter | Copyright

The editors wish to thank the copyright holders of the excerpted criticism included in this volume and the permissions managers of many book and magazine publishing companies for assisting us in securing reproduction rights. We are also grateful to the staffs of the Detroit Public Library, the Library of Congress, the University of Detroit Mercy Library, Wayne State University Purdy/Kresge Library Complex, and the University of Michigan Libraries for making their resources available to us. Following is a list of the copyright holders who have granted us permission to reproduce material in this volume of Novels for Students (NfS). Every effort has been made to trace copyright, but if omissions have been made, please let us know.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIALS IN NfS, VOLUME 13, WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS: American Literature, v. 62, December, 1990. Copyright ©1990 by Duke University Press, Durham, NC. Reproduced by permission.—Belles Lettres, v. 7, Fall, 1991. Reproduced by permission.—BookPage for "A Wonderful Irony: The Quietest of Books Makes the Splashiest Debut," by Ellen Kanner. (c) 1996, ProMotion, Inc. Retrieved January 25, 2001 from http://www.bookpage.com. Reproduced by permission.—English: The Journal of the English Association, v. 43, Spring, 1994. Reproduced by permission.—Mosaic, v. 29, March, 1996. © Mosaic 1996. Acknowledgment of previous publication is herewith made.—The Nation, New York, v. 253, December, 1991. © 1991 The Nation magazine/The Nation Company, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—North Dakota Quarterly, v. 62, Fall, 1994-95. Copyright 1994-95 by The University of North Dakota. Reproduced by permission.—Papers on Language and Literature, v. 25, Fall, 1989. Copyright © 1989 by The Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Reproduced by permission.—The San Francisco Chronicle, January 1, 1995 for "A Friendship Shattered by War," by Stan Yogi. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Studies in the Novel, v. 25, Fall, 1993. Copyright 1993 by North Texas State University. Reproduced by permission.—The Times Literary Supplement, no. 4646, April 17, 1992 for "A Town Divided," by Donna Rifkind. © The Times Supplements Limited 1992. Reproduced from The Times Literary Supplement by permission.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIALS IN NfS, VOLUME 13, WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:
Austin, Allan E. From Elizabeth Bowen. Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1971. Copyright © 1971 by Twayne Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. The Gale Group.—Brooks, Cleanth. From "History and the Sense of the Tragic: Absalom, Absalom!" in William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country. Copyright © 1963 by Cleanth Brooks. Reproduced by permission of Louisiana State University Press.—Justus, James H. From The Achievement of Robert Penn Warren. Louisiana State University Press, 1981. Copyright © 1981 by Louisiana State University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Pathania, Usha. From Human Bonds and Bondages: The Fiction of Anita Desai and Kamala Markandaya. Kanishka Publishing House, 1992. © Usha Pathania. Reproduced by permission.—Richetti, John J. From Twayne's English Author's Series Online. G. K. Hall & Company, 1999. Retrieved from http://www. galenet .com. The Gale Group.—White, Barbara A. From "Loss of Self in 'The Member of the Wedding,'" in Modern Critical Views: Carson Mc-Cullers. Edited by Harold Bloom. Chelsea House Publishers, 1986. © 1986 by Chelsea House Publishers, a division of Chelsea House Educational Communications, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS APPEARING IN NfS, VOLUME 13, WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:
Allied officials drafting the Versailles Treaty, December 2,1918, photograph. © Bettmann/Corbis. Reproduced by permission.—Andrews, Anthony (left) as Sebastian Flyte, Diana Quick as Julia and Jeremy Irons as Charles Ryder, in a vintage automobile in front of Brideshead Castle in the serialized television drama Brideshead Revisited, based on Evelyn Waugh's novel, photograph. © Virgin Vision.—Atwood, Margaret, photograph. The Library of Congress.—Banks, Russell, photograph by Horst Tappe. Hulton/Archive. Reproduced by permission.—Baum, L. Frank, photograph. The Library of Congress.—Beller, Kathleen as Kate in the 1980 film version of Margaret Atwood's novel Surfacing, photograph. Kobal Collection/Surfacing Film. Reproduced by permission.—Boddie, Jane, curator at Evergreen Plantation, Edgard, Louisiana, January 15, 2000, photograph by Judi Bottoni. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Bowen, Elizabeth, photograph. The Library of Congress.— Crawford, Broderick (right to left), John Ireland and John Derek, photograph. The Kobal Collection. Reproduced by permission.—Defoe, Daniel, drawing. The Library of Congress.—Denslow, W. W., illustrator. From an illustration in The Wonderful Wizard ofOz, by L. Frank Baum. George M. Hill Company, 1900.—Faulkner, William, photograph. Archive Photos. Reproduced by permission.— Hawke, Ethan, and Kudoh Youki, in the 1999 film version of the novel Snow Falling on Cedars, written by David Guterson, photograph. The Kobal Collection. Reproduced by permission.—Ishiguro, Kazuo, photograph. © Jerry Bauer. Reproduced by permission.—Lahr, Bert, with Jack Haley, Judy Garland, and Ray Bolger, in the movie The Wizard of Oz, 1939, photograph. The Kobal Collection. Reproduced by permission.—Lakeside house surrounded by forest on a spit of land, aerial view, located between Quebec and Mont Sainte Anne Park, Quebec, Canada, c. 1970-1998, photograph. © Yann Arthus-Bertrand/Corbis. Reproduced by permission.—Long, Huey P., drawing. The Library of Congress.—Manzanar War Relocation Center, photograph by Ansel Adams. The Library of Congress.—McCullers, Carson, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Polley, Sarah (looking at Holm), and Ian Holm in the film The Sweet Hereafter, 1996, photograph by Johnnie Eisen. The Kobal Collection. Reproduced by permission.—Prisoner sitting in cell at Newgate Prison, photograph. Corbis Corporation. Reproduced by permission.—Racket Court, in the interior of the Fleet Prison which was used for debtors mainly, 1774, engraving by Fleming. Archive Photos, Inc. Reproduced by permission.— Rural Indian village (huts and mosque), 1848, Sheebpore, India, lithograph by Philip DeBay. Historical Picture Archive/Corbis. Reproduced by permission.—A seated Indian man works a large piece of wooden equipment in a leather tannery in Kam-pur, India, c. 1985-1995, photograph by David Cumming. © Eye Ubiquitous/Corbis. Reproduced by permission.—The spire of Exeter College Chapel rises beyond the c. 16th century buildings of Brasenose College, Oxford, England, c. 1985-1995, photograph by Brian Harding. © Eye Ubiquitous/Corbis. Reproduced by permission.—Tan, Amy (left), and her mother "Daisy" sitting on a sofa, smiling and reading a letter from family in China, photograph. People Weekly © 1989 Jim McHugh. Reproduced by permission.—Tan, Amy, 1993, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Thackeray, William Makepeace, engraving. The Library of Congress.—Thackeray, W. M., illustrator. From a cover of Vanity Fair, by W. M. Thackeray. W. W. Norton & Company, 1847. — Vaughn, Peter (left), and Anthony Hopkins in a scene from the 1993 film version of The Remains of the Day from a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, photograph. The Kobal Collection/Derrick Santini/Co-lumbia /Merchant Ivory. Reproduced by permission.—Warren, Robert Penn, photograph. The Library of Congress.—Waters, Ethel, posing with two unidentified actors in the film The Member of the Wedding, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Waugh, Evelyn, photograph. The Library of Congress.—Welty, Eudora, 1962, photograph. NYWTS/The Library of Congress.—Wright, Robin, as Moll Flanders, in the film Moll Flanders. The Kobal Collection. Reproduced by permission.