Biographical and Critical Books:
Bastian, Katherine. Joyce Carol Oates's Short Stories: Between Tradition and Innovation. Frankfurt, Germany: Verlag P. Lang, 1983.
Bender, Eileen Teper. Joyce Carol Oates: Artist in Residence. Bloomington, IN: Indiana U P, 1987.
Introduction, vii-xii.
Chapter 1: Misreadings and Marriages: The "Place" of Joyce Carol Oates, 1-9.
Chapter 2: Eden Valley Residence: With Shuddering Fall and A Garden of Earthly Delights, 10-29.
Chapter 3: Fabulation and Documentation: Expensive People and them, 30-48.
Chapter 4: Personality in Flight: Wonderland, 49-68.
Chapter 5: Beyond the Looking Glass: Do with Me What You Will, The Assassins, and Childwold, 69-92.
Chapter 6: Sacred and Profane Visions: Son of the Morning and Unholy Loves, 93-110.
Chapter 7: Mythic Residence: Bellefleur, Cybele, and Angel of Light, 111-129.
Chapter 8: Woman's Place: A Bloodsmoor Romance, Mysteries of Winterthurn, Solstice, and Marya: A Life, 130-164.
Conclusion: Missing Views, "Last Days," 165-178.
Afterword, 179-183.
Reviews
Ditsky, J.M. Choice 24(July/Aug. 1987): 1690.
Donahoo, Robert. American Literature 60(Mar. 1988): 150.
Creighton, Joanne V. Joyce Carol Oates. Boston: Twayne, 1979.
---. Joyce Carol Oates: Novels of the Middle Years. New York: Twayne, 1992.
Chapter 1: "The 'I,' Which Doesn't Exist, Is Everything," 1-11.
Chapter 2: "Holy and Unholy Loves: God, Art, Sex, Goodness," 12-35.
Chapter 3: "Genres Reenvisioned," 36-56.
Chapter 4: "Dualities of Female Identity," 57-76.
Chapter 5: "Author and Other," 77-93.
Chapter 6: "Appetites and Bitter Hearts," 94-104.
Chapter 7: "Critical Contexts and Contradictions," 105-120.
Reviews
Vickers, Anita M. "The Americas." Modern Fiction Studies 38(Winter 1992): 950.
Daly, Brenda. Lavish Self-Divisions: The Novels of Joyce Carol Oates. Jackson, MS: U P of Mississippi, 1996.
"Anxious Authorship in the 1960s: Daughters Leaving Home," 3-8.Part 1:
1: "Not Strictly Parallel: The Sacrificial Plots of Daughters and Sons in With Shuddering Fall," 9-21.Chapter
Chapter 2: "Yeats's Daughter: Images of 'Leda and the Swan' in the Trilogy of the 1960s," 22-47.
Chapter 3: "'The Central Nervous System of America': The Writer in/as the Crowd in Wonderland," 48-68.
Part 2:
"Dialogic Authorship in the 1970s: Marriage and Infidelities," 69-76.4: "Marriage as Novel: Beyond the Conventions of Romance and Law in Do with Me What You Will," 77-90.Chapter
Chapter 5: "Wedding a (Woman) Writer's Voices: Dis-membering the 'I' in The Assassins, Re-membering 'Us' in Childwold," 91-109.
Chapter 6: "Self-Narrating Woman: Marriage as Emancipatory Metaphor in Unholy Loves," 110-124.
Part 3:
"Communal Authorship in the 1980s: The (M)other in Us," 125-135.7: "Daughters of the American Revolution: 'Idiosyncratic' Narrators in Three Postmodern Novels," 136-178.Chapter
Chapter 8: "Porous Boundaries: Daughters, Families, and the Body Politic in Realistic Novels of the 1980s," 179-204.
Chapter 9: "How Does 'I' Speak for 'We'?: Violence and Representation in Foxfire, Confessions of a Girl Gang," 205-222.
Conclusion: "Where Has Joyce Carol Oates Been, Where Is She Going?," 223-228.
Reviews:
Donahoo, Robert. American Literature 69(Sep. 1997): 642.
Friedman, Ellen G. Studies in the Novel 31(Spring 1999): 118.
Kohl, J.C. Choice 34(Mar. 1997): 1160.
Wesley, Marilyn C. Critique 38(Summer 1997): 316.
Friedman, Ellen. Joyce Carol Oates. New York: Ungar, 1980.
Reviews
Leber, Michele M. Library Journal 1 Feb. 1980: 404.
Grant, Mary Kathryn. The Tragic Vision of Joyce Carol Oates. Durham, NC: Duke U P, 1987.
Johnson, Greg. Invisible Writer: A Biography of Joyce Carol Oates. New York: Dutton, 1998. Reprinted: New York: Penguin/Plume, 1999.
Reviews:
Berkman, Johanna. New York Times Book Review 24 May 1998: 16.
Cassel, Jeris. Library Journal 15 Feb. 1998: 142-143.
Friedman, Ellen G. Studies in the Novel 31(Spring 1999): 118.
Heller, Scott. "Despite the Pitfalls, Two Biographers Focus on Living Novelists." Chronicle of Higher Education 24 Apr. 1998: A, 16-17.
Hooper, Brad. Booklist 1 Feb. 1998: 893.
Newman, Judith. New York Times Book Review 24 May 1998: 16.
Powers, Elizabeth. World Literature Today 73(Spring 1999): 341.
Rollyson, Carl. Choice 36(Oct. 1998): 316.
---. Magill Book Reviews 2 Nov. 1998.
Saari, Jon. Antioch Review 57(Winter 1999): 107.
Stuttaford, Genevieve. Publishers Weekly 2 Feb. 1998: 71.
---. A Reader's Guide to the Recent Novels of Joyce Carol Oates. New York: Dutton, 1995.
---. Understanding Joyce Carol Oates. Columbia, SC: U of South Carolina P, 1987.
Chapter 1: Understanding Joyce Carol Oates, 3-27.
Chapter 2: A Garden of Earthly Delights, 28-48.
Chapter 3: Expensive People, 49-70.
Chapter 4: them, 71-91.
Chapter 5: The Short Stories (I): The Wheel of Love, 92-116.
Chapter 6: Wonderland, 117-141.
Chapter 7: Son of the Morning, 142-159.
Chapter 8: Angel of Light, 160-179.
Chapter 9: The Short Stories (II): Last Days, 180-200.
Conclusion, 201-205.
Bibliography, 206-216.
Index, 217-224.
Reviews
Allen, William Rodney. American Literature 60(Oct. 1988): 496.
Ditsky, J.M. Choice Apr. 1988: 1244.
Loeb, Monica. Literary Marriages: A Study of Intertextuality in a Series of Short Stories by Joyce Carol Oates. Oxford, UK: Peter Lang, 2002.
Mayer, Sigrid, and Martha Hanscom. Critical Reception of the Short Fiction by Joyce Carol Oates and Gabriele Wohmann. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1998.
Norman, K., and M. Torborg. Isolation and Contact: A Study of Character Relationships in Joyce Carol Oates's Short Stories, 1963-1980. Goteborg, Sweden: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 1984.
Severin, Hermann. The Image of the Intellectual in the Short Stories of Joyce Carol Oates. Frankfurt, Germany: Peter Lang, 1986.
Showalter, Elaine, ed. "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers U P, 1994.
Sreelakshmi, P. Elective Affinities: A Study in the Sources and Intertexts of Joyce Carol Oates's Short Fiction. Madras, India: T.R. Publications, 1996.
Waller, G.F. Dreaming America: Obsession and Transcendence in the Fiction of Joyce Carol Oates. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State U P, 1979.
Reviews:
Leber, Michelle M. library Journal 1 Mar. 1979: 631.
Watanabe, Nancy Ann. Love Eclipsed: Joyce Carol Oates's Faustian Moral Vision. Lanham, MD: University P of America, 1998.
Introduction: 1-12.
Chapter 1: "A Garden of Earthly Delights," 13-34.
Chapter 2: "Flashback 1: The Rape of Lucrece," 35-42.
Chapter 3: "Flashback 2: The Rape of the Lock," 43-50.
Chapter 4: "Flashback 3: Werther and Julie," 51-64.
Chapter 5: "The Wheel of Love: 'The Wheel of Love,'" 65-71.
Chapter 6: "The Wheel of Love: 'The Heavy Sorrow of the Body,'" 72-75.
Chapter 7: "The Wheel of Love: 'Matter and Energy,'" 77-82.
Chapter 8: "Night-Side: 'Fatal Woman,'" 83-84.
Chapter 9: "The Hungry Ghosts: 'A Descriptive Catalogue,'" 85-87.
Chapter 10: "Where Are You Going?: 'An American Adventure,'" 88-90.
Chapter 11: "The Seduction: 'Getting and Spending,'" 91-92.
Chapter 12: "The Seduction: 'The Madwoman,'" 93-94.
Chapter 13: "Son of the Morning," 95-98.
Chapter 14: "A Sentimental Education," 99-104.
Chapter 15: "Solstice," 105-110.
Chapter 16: "The Rise of Life on Earth," 111-112.
Chapter 17: "Black Water," 113-118.
Chapter 18: "Flashback 4: To Kill a Mockingbird," 119-134.
Chapter 19: "'The Others,'" 135-137.
Conclusion: "'The Tryst,'" 138-157.
Chapter 20: "You Can't Catch Me," 158-160.
Appendix: "Postscript," 161-168.
Wesley, Marilyn. Refusal and Transgression in Joyce Carol Oates: Fiction. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1993.
Introduction: "Family, Power, Resistance," 1-16.
Chapter 1: "Mothers and Fathers: The Demotion of the Ideal," 17-32.
Chapter 2: "Mothers and Daughters: The Refusal of Innocence," 33-56.
Chapter 3: "Brothers and Sisters: The Refusal of Substitute Relation," 57-72.
Chapter 4: "Fathers and Sons: The Refusal of Violence," 73-90.
Chapter 5: "Transgression I: Mother-Son Romance," 91-110.
Chapter 6: "Transgression II: Father-Daughter Incest," 111-124.
Chapter 7: "The Feminist Unconscious," 125-142.
Chapter 8: "The Transgressive Other," 143-154.