Criticism > Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism > The Modern Essay - Representative Works

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REPRESENTATIVE WORKS

Baldwin, James
Notes of a Native Son 1955
The Fire Next Time 1963

Beerbohm, Max
And Even Now 1920
A Peep into the Past, and Other Prose Pieces 1972

Belloc, Hilaire
On Nothing and Kindred Subjects 1908
On Everything 1910
One Thing and Another: A Miscellany from His Uncollected Essays 1955

Benchley, Robert
Of All Things 1921
No Poems, or, Around the World Backwards and Sideways 1932

Benson, A. C.
The Upton Letters, by T B. 1905
From a College Window 1906
Beside Still Waters 1907

Berry, Wendell
The Long-Legged House 1969
The Hidden Wound 1970

Chesterton, G. K.
Twelve Types 1902
Come to Think of It… 1930
The Common Man 1950

Didion, Joan
Slouching towards Bethlehem 1968
The White Album 1979

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1. Introduction
2. Representative Works
3. Overview
4. The Essay In The Early Twentieth Century
5. Characteristics Of The Modern Essay
6. Modern Essayists
7. The Essay As A Literary Genre
8. Further Reading
9. Copyright

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