Critical Insights: Eugene O'Neill (Electronic book text)

Edited by Steven Bloom, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs; Dean of Undergraduate Education and Professor of English, Lasell College, this volume in the Critical Insights series presents a variety of new essays on the American dramatist. For readers who are studying ONeill for the first time, a biographical sketch relates the details of his life and four essays survey the critical reception of ONeills work, explore its cultural and historical contexts, situate ONeill among his contemporaries, and review key themes in his work. Readers seeking a deeper understanding of the writer can then move on to other essays that explore topics like ONeills views on family, faith and male-female relationships; his symbolism and imagery, and his responses to the issues of his day. Works discussed include Long Days Journey into Night, Anna Christie, Strange Interlude, Ah Wilderness, and The Iceman Cometh. Among the contributors are Richard Eaton, Brenda Murphy, Trevor Wise, and William Davies King.