William Golding Bibliography 2000–2009

This is a bibliography for critical work on William Golding, 2000–2009. Do let us know of any omissions!

Books

Bloom, Harold,  ed, William Golding’s Lord of the Flies: New Critical Interpretations. Infobase, 2008.

Crawford, Paul,  Politics and History in William Golding: The World Turned Upside Down. University of Missouri Press, 2002.

Books with references to Golding

Carroll, Joseph,  Literary Darwinism: Evolution, Human Nature and Literature. Routledge, 2004.

Collins, Fiona M. and Judith Graham, Historical Fiction for Children: Capturing the Past. David Fulton Publishers, 2001 (reprinted by Routledge, 2012).

Edgerly Firchow, Peter, Modern Utopian Fictions from H.G. Wells to Iris Murdoch. Catholic University of America Press, 2007.

Kort, Wesley A.,  Place and Space in Modern Fiction. University Press of Florida, 2004.

Prickett, Stephen, Narrative, Religion and Science: Fundamentalism Versus Irony 1700–1999. Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Chapters in Books

Baker, James R.,  ‘Golding and Huxley: The Fables of Demonic Possession’. In Harold Bloom, ed, William Golding’s Lord of the Flies: New Critical Interpretations. Infobase, 2008.

Boyd, S.J.,  ‘The Nature of the Beast: Lord of the Flies.’ In Harold Bloom, ed, William Golding’s Lord of the Flies: New Critical Interpretations. Infobase, 2008.

Chellappan, K.,  ‘Vision and Structure in Lord of the Flies: A Semiotic Approach.’ In Harold Bloom, ed, William Golding’s Lord of the Flies: New Critical Interpretations. Infobase, 2008.

Chourova, Margaret, ‘ “The Death of the Author”and the Tragicomedy of Allegory of William Golding’s The Paper Men.’ In Richard Todd and Luisa Flora, eds, Theme Parks, Rainforests and Sprouting Wastelands: European Essays on Theory and Performance in Contemporary British Fiction, Rodopi, 2000.

Crawford, Paul,  ‘Literature and Atrocity: Lord of the Flies and The Inheritors.’ In Harold Bloom, ed, William Golding’s Lord of the Flies: New Critical Interpretations. Infobase, 2008.

Dickson, L.L.,  ‘Lord of the Flies.’ In Harold Bloom, ed, William Golding’s Lord of the Flies: New Critical Interpretations. Infobase, 2008.

Friedman, Lawrence S.,  ‘Grief, Grief, Grief: Lord of the Flies.’ In Harold Bloom, ed, William Golding’s Lord of the Flies: New Critical Interpretations. Infobase, 2008.

Gindin, James, ‘The Fictional Explosion: Lord of the Flies and The Inheritors.’ In Harold Bloom, ed, William Golding’s Lord of the Flies: New Critical Interpretations. Infobase, 2008.

Halliday, M. A. K., ‘Linguistic Function and Literary Style: An Inquiry into the Language of William Golding’s The Inheritors.’ In The Language and Literature Reader. Routledge, 2008.

Hawlin, Stefan, ‘The Savages in the Forest: Decolonising William Golding.’ In Harold Bloom, ed, William Golding’s Lord of the Flies: New Critical Interpretations. Infobase, 2008.

MacFarlane, Robert, ‘William Golding’. In Adrian Poole, ed, The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists. Cambridge University Press, 2009.

McCarron, Kevin, ‘William Golding’s Lord of the Flies and Other Early Novels.’ In Brian W. Shaffer, ed, A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945–2000, Blackwell, 2005.

Roy, Paula Adila, ‘Boys’ Club – No Girls Allowed: Absence as Presence in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies (1954). In Jerilyn Fisher and Ellen S. Silber, eds, Women in Literature: Reading Through the Lens of Gender. Greenwood, 2003.

Tiger, Virginia,  ‘Lord of the Flies.’ In Harold Bloom, ed, William Golding’s Lord of the Flies: New Critical Interpretations. Infobase, 2008.

Journal Articles

Arver, Cara M., ‘Are You Willing to Have Your Students Join Ralph, Jack, and Piggy?’. The English Journal, 97, no. 1, 2007, pp. 37–42.

DePaolo, Charles, ‘Wells, Golding, and Auel: Representing the Neanderthal.’ Science Fiction Studies, 27, no. 3, 2000, pp. 418–438.

Diken, Bülent, and Carsten Bagge Laustsen, ‘From War to War: Lord of the Flies as the Sociology of Spite.’ Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 31, no. 4, 2006, pp. 431–452.

Halissy, Margaret, ‘Christianity, the Pagan Past, and the Rituals of Construction in William Golding’s The Spire.’ Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 49, no. 3, 2008, pp. 319–331.

Jay, Betty,  ‘Architecture of Desire: William Golding’s The Spire.’ Literature and Theology, 20, no. 1, 2006, pp. 157–170.

Mitchell, Michael,  ‘Armed Angels: Visible Darkness in Malouf and Golding.’ World Literature Today, 74, no. 4, 2000, pp. 770–777.

Pauw, François, ‘William Golding’s The Double Tongue as Hypertext of Euripides’s “Ion”.’ Acta Classica, 51, 2008, pp. 125–144.

Sugimura, Yasunori, ‘A Reconsideration of Oa the Earth Goddess in William Golding’s The Inheritors.’ The Modern Language Review, 97, no. 2, 2002, pp. 279–289.

Stape, J.H.,  ‘The Artful Equivocation of William Golding’s The Double Tongue.’ Twentieth Century Literature, 47, no.3, 2001, pp. 391–406.

Stephenson, William.  ‘William Golding’s To the Ends of the Earth: A Sea Trilogy and Queer Autobiography.’ Auto/Biography Studies, 15, no. 1, 2000, pp. 5–21.

 

Bibliography 2010–present

Bibliography 1990–1999