The Several Worlds of Pearl S. Buck - Essays Presented at a Centennial Symposium, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, 26-28 March 1992

List of contents

Illustrations
Preface
Introduction: Rediscovering Pearl S. Buck by Peter Conn
Keynote Adress: Pearl S. Buck and the American Quest for China by James C. Thomson, Jr.
Historical Perspectives
The Good Earth, Revolution, and the American Raj in China by Charles W. Hayford
Pearl S. Buck in Search of America by David D. Buck
Pearl S. Buck and American Women's History by John d'Entremont
Pearl S. Buck's Reception in China Reconsidered by Liu Haiping
Humanitarian Perspectives
East/West Ties: Amerasian Children and the Work of the Pearl S. Buck Foundation by Grace C.K. Sum
Welcome House: A Forty-Year History by Peter Conn
Buck's Writings on Handicapped Children by Deborah Clement Raessler
Literary Perspectives
Who's Afraid of Pearl S. Buck? by Jane M. Rabb
Pearl S. Buck and American Literary Culture by Peter Conn
Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth: The Novel as Epic by Pradyumna S. Chauhan
Scripting The Good Earth: Versions of the Novel for the Screen by James L. Hoban, Jr.
Selected Bibliography
Index
Illustrations
Nobel Prize Portrait
Senior College Portrait
Commemorative Stamp
White House Gala
With Amerasian Children
At Her Desk
MGM's The Good Earth

About the author

ELIZABETH J. LIPSCOMB is Professor of English at Randolph-Macon Woman's College.

FRANCES E. WEBB is Reference Librarian at Randolph-Macon Woman's College.

PETER CONN is Professor of English and Chair of the Graduate Group in American Civilization at the University of Pennsylvania.

Product details

• Assisted by: Peter Conn (Editor), Conn Peter (Editor), Elizabeth Lipscomb (Editor), Lipscomb Elizabeth J. (Editor), Frances Webb (Editor), Webb Frances E. (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.05.1994
• EAN: 9780313291524
• ISBN: 978-0-313-29152-4
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; USA, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Biography: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, The arts, American English, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Gender studies: women, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Gender studies: women and girls, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form