Bibliography
On The Public Burning
Periodicals
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Critique 42 (1), 2000 (Special Issue on The Public Burning)
Green, Geoffrey, Donald J. Greiner and Larry McCaffery.
"The Public Burning, Coover's Fiery Masterpiece on Center Stage Again." (4-6)
Bell, Elisabeth Ly. "The Notorious Hot Potato[: A Bibliography of Materials Related to The Public Burning]." (7-17)
Articles in Periodicals
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Cioffi, Frank L. "Coover's (Im)Possible Worlds in The Public Burning."
Critique 42 (1), 2000: 26-39.
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Cornis-Pope, Marcel. "Rewriting the Encounter with the Other: Narrative and Cultural Transgression in The Public Burning."
Critique 42 (1), 2000: 40-50.
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Dainotto, Roberto Maria. "Myth and Carnival in Robert Coover's The Public Burning."
Rivista di Studi Nord-Americani 3, 1992: 5-22.
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Estes, David C. "American Folk Laughter in Robert Coover's The Public Burning."
Contemporary Literature 28 (2), 1987: 239-256.
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Fogel, Stan. "Richard Nixon by Robert Coover, Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes."
English Studies in Canada 8 (2), 1982: 187-202.
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Frick, Daniel E. "Coover's Secret Sharer? Richard Nixon in The Public Burning."
Critique 37 (2), 1996: 82-91.
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Gallo, Louis. "Nixon and the 'House of Wax': An Emblematic Episode in Coover's The Public Burning."
Critique 23 (3), 1982: 43-51.
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Guijarro González, Juan Ignacio. "'Be There (on Time) or Be Square':
Times Square en The Public Burning de Robert Coover."
Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos 4, 1996: 167-173.
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Guzlowski, John Z. "Coover's The Public Burning: Richard Nixon and the Politics of Experience."
Critique 29 (1), 1987: 57-71.
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Hite, Molly. "'A Parody of Martyrdom': The Rosenbergs, Cold War Theology, and Robert Coover's The Public Burning."
Novel 27 (1), 1993: 85-101.
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LeClair, Thomas. "Robert Coover, The Public Burning, and the Art of Excess."
Critique 23 (3), 1982: 5-28.
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Mazurek, Raymond A. "Metafiction, the Historical Novel, and Coover's The Public Burning."
Critique 23 (3), 1982: 29-42.
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Miguel-Alfonso, Ricardo. "Robert Coover's The Public Burning and the Ethics of Historical Understanding."
International Fiction Review 23 (1-2), 1996: 16-24.
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Moraru, Christian. "Rewriting Horatio Alger: Robert Coover and the Public Burning of the Public Sphere."
LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory 10 (3), 1999: 235-254.
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Olson, Lance. "Stand By to Crash! Avant-Pop, Hypertextuality, and Postmodern Comic Vision in Coover's The Public Burning."
Critique 42 (1), 2000: 51-68.
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Ramage, John. "Myth and Monomyth in Coover's The Public Burning."
Critique 23 (3), 1982: 52-68.
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Savvas, Theophilus. "'Nothing but Words'? Chronicling and Storytelling in Robert Coover's The Public Burning."
Journal of American Studies 44 (1), 2010: 171-186.
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Solomon, Eric. "A Note on 1930s Nostalgia and The Public Burning."
Critique 42 (1), 2000: 18-25.
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Strecker, Geralyn. "Statecraft as Stagecraft: Disneyland and the Rosenberg Executions in The Public Burning."
Critique 42 (1), 2000: 70-80.
- Viereck, Elisabeth. "The Clown Knew It All Along: The Medium Was the Message."
Delta 28, 1989: 63-81.
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Walsh, Richard. "Narrative Inscription, History and the Reader in Robert Coover's The Public Burning."
Studies in the Novel 25 (3), 1993: 332-346.
Books
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Viereck, Elisabeth. Mightier than the Sword: Perspectives on Robert Coover's 'The
Public Burning'. M.A. Thesis, University of Texas, Austin, 1980.
Articles in Books
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Blom, Mattias Bolkéus. "'The Continent, the Whole Continent, and Nothin' but the Continent':
Renegotiating the American West in Robert Coover's The Public Burning." in:
Will Wright and Steven Kaplan (Eds.). The Image of the American West in Literature, the Media, and
Society. Pueblo: Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, 1996: 216-219.
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Orlov, Paul A. "A Fiction of Politically Fantastic 'Facts': Robert Coover's The Public Burning."
in: Adam J. Jarkin (Ed.). Politics and the Muse: Studies in the Politics of Recent American Literature.
Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1989: 111-123.
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Pearce, Richard. "The Circus, the Clown, and Coover's Public Burning."
in: Robert A. Collins and Howard D. Pearce (Eds.). The Scope of the Fantastic – Culture, Biography, Themes, Children's Literature.
Westport: Greenwood, 1985: 129-136.
Monograph Chapters
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Cope, Jackson I. "The Public Burning: Beyond the Dialogic Novel."
in: Cope 1986: 59-113.
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Evenson, Brian. "The Public Burning."
in: Evenson 2003: 103-139.
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Gordon, Lois. "The Public Burning: The Making of the President."
in: Gordon 1983: 51-86.
Book Chapters
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Irmer, Thomas. "The Public Burning."
in: Metafictions, Moving Pictures, Moving Histories. Der historische Roman in der Postmoderne.
Tübingen: G. Narr, 1995: 97-107.
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Strehle, Susan. "Robert Coover: The Public Burning and the Accidents of History."
in: Fiction in the Quantum Universe. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992: 66-92.
Reviews
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Edwards, Thomas R. "Real People, Mythic History." New York Times August 14, 1977: 198.
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Mason, Michael. "Uncle Sam in Person [Review of The Public Burning]." Times Literary Supplement June 16, 1978: 863.
On The Public Burning and Works of Other Authors
Books
- Campbell, Gregor Duncan. "Historical Consciousness in the Fiction of William Gaddis,
Thomas Pynchon and Robert Coover: A Reading of 'The Recognitions', 'Gravity's Rainbow', and
'The Public Burning'." Dissertation Abstracts International 50 (6), 1989: 1661-A.
- Carmichael, Virginia. "The Rosenberg Story(ies): A Literary History."
Dissertation Abstracts International 52 (7), 1992: 2551-A.
[on The Public Burning and Doctorow's The Book of Daniel]
- Felty, Thomas Darren. "Casting Criminals: The Execution Novels of Robert Coover and Norman Mailer."
Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (6), 2000: 2300-A.
[on The Public Burning and Mailer's The Executioner's Song]
- Gutiérrez-Jones, Carl Scott. "Historical Designs: A Pan American Approach to the
Contemporary Encyclopedic Novel." Dissertation Abstracts International 51 (12), 1991: 4138-A.
- Jeong, Sangjum. "Representing the Rosenberg Case: Coover, Doctorow, and the Consequences of
Postmodernism." Dissertation Abstracts International 52 (12), 1992: 4329-A & 4330-A.
[on The Public Burning and Doctorow's The Book of Daniel]
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Kelly, John Christopher. "Political Intelligence: America's Liberal Unconscious in the Age of
Ideology." Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (9), 2000: 3362-A.
- Pak, Inchan. "Historical Reconstruction and Self-Search: A Study of Thomas Pynchon's 'V.',
John Barth's 'The Sot-Weed Factor', Norman Mailer's 'The Armies of the Night', Robert Coover's
'The Public Burning', and E.L. Doctorow's 'The Book of Daniel'."
Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (8), 1996: 3129-A.
Articles in Periodicals
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Elias, Amy. "Oscar Hijuelos's The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo, and Robert
Coover's The Public Burning." Critique 41 (2), 2000: 115-128.
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Epstein, Joseph. "A Conspiracy of Silence."
Harper's Magazine 255, 1977: 77-92.
[on The Public Burning and Doctorow's The Book of Daniel]
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Humm, Peter. "Telling Tales on the Rosenbergs."
Literature and History 12 (1), 1986: 48-57.
[on The Public Burning and Doctorow's The Book of Daniel]
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Snyder, Michael. "Crises of Masculinity: Homosexual Desire and Homosexual Panic in the Critical Cold War Narratives of Mailer and Coover."
Critique 48 (3), 2007: 250-277. [on The Public Burning and Mailer's An American Dream
and Why Are We in Vietnam?]
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Valente, Luiz Fernando. "History, Fiction and National Identity in J.U. Ribeiro's An Invincible Memory and
Robert Coover's The Public Burning." Chasqui 40 (1), 2011: 80-95.
Articles in Books
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Kunow, Rüdiger. "Without Telos or Subject? Coover's and Doctorow's Presentations of History."
in: Günter H. Lenz, Hartmut Keil und Sabine Bröck-Sallah (Eds.). Reconstructing American Literary and Historical Studies.
Frankfurt/M.: Campus, 1990: 372-390.
[on The Public Burning and Doctorow's The Book of Daniel
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Reitz, Bernhard. "The Reconstruction of the Fifties in E.L. Doctorow's The Book of Daniel and Robert Coover's The Public Burning."
in: Bernd Engler und Kurt Müller (Eds.). Historiographic Metafiction in Modern American and Canadian Literature.
Paderborn: F. Schöningh, 1994: 223-240.
[on The Public Burning and Doctorow's The Book of Daniel
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Schaller, Hans-Wolfgang. "Geschichte in den postmodernen Romanen Doctorows und Coovers."
in: Rüdiger Ahrens und Fritz-Wilhelm Neumann (Eds.). Fiktion und Geschichte in der anglo-amerikanischen Literatur..
Heidelberg: C. Winter, 1998: 459-478.
[on The Public Burning and Doctorow's The Book of Daniel
On Robert Coover
On Coover in General
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Delta 28, 1989 (Special Issue on Robert Coover)
Couturier, Maurice. "Introduction & Robert Coover: A Chronology & A Coover Bibliography."
(1-2 & 3-6 & 141-149)
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Andersen, Richard. Robert Coover. Boston: Twayne, 1981.
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Cope, Jackson I. Robert Coover's Fictions. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1986.
- Couturier, Maurice. "Gerald's Party or A Rose's Wake."
Delta 28, 1989: 97-116.
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Domsch, Sebastian. Absenz – Simulation – Karneval. Eine Untersuchung der postmodernen Erzählverfahren
in Robert Coovers Romanwerk. (=Mosaic. Studien und Texte zur amerikanischen Kultur und Geschichte, Bd. 24) Trier: WVT, 2005.
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Evenson, Brian. Understanding Robert Coover. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003.
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Gordon, Lois. Robert Coover. The Universal Fictionmaking Process. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1983.
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Hume, Kathryn. "Robert Coover's Fiction: The Naked and the Mythic."
Novel 12 (2), 1979: 127-148.
- McCaffery, Larry. "The Recognitions: An Editorial Collaboration with Robert Coover's 'Party Talk'."
Delta 28, 1989: 117-129.
- O'Donnell, Patrick. "Robert Coover." in: Brian W. Shaffer (Ed.). The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Literary Theory.
Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011: 505-506.
- Pughe, Thomas. "The Cackle of Fiction: 'Charlie in the House of Rue' and the Question of Comic Form."
Delta 28, 1989: 83-95.
On Coover's Short Fiction
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Kennedy, Thomas E. Robert Coover. A Study of the Short Fiction. New York: Twayne, 1992.
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Kissel, Susan. "The Contemporary Artist and his Audience in the Short Stories of Robert Coover."
Studies in Short Fiction 16 (1), 1979: 49-54.
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Lee, L.L. "Robert Coover's Moral Vision: Pricksongs & Descants."
Studies in Short Fiction 23 (1), 1986: 63-69.
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Stengel, Wayne B. "Robert Coover's 'Writing Degree Zero': 'The Magic Poker'."
Arizona Quarterly 45 (2), 1989: 101-110.
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Steadman, Mark. "[Review of Pricksongs & Descants]." Studies in Short Fiction 7 (2), 1970: 351-353.
On Coover's Other Works
- Chénetier, Marc. "Robert Coover for President! (A turning of the fables, 'flaunting the rules of the game')."
Delta 28, 1989: 53-62.
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Durand, Régis. "The Exemplary Fictions of Robert Coover." in: Ira D. Johnson and Christiane Johnson (Eds.)
Les Américanistes. New French Criticism on Modern American Fiction. Port Washington: Kennikat, 1978: 130-137.
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Frick, Daniel E. "The Prison House of Art: Aesthetics vs. Politics in Robert Coover's Whatever Happened to Gloomy Gus of the Chicago Bears?"
Studies in Short Fiction 31 (2), 1994: 217-223.
- Green, Geoffrey. "Notes on Robert Coover's Recent Fiction."
Delta 28, 1989: 135-139.
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Hertzel, Leo J. "What's Wrong With the Christians?" Critique 11 (3), 1969: 11-24.
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Ickstadt, Heinz. "History, Fiction and the Designs of Robert Coover."
Amerikastudien / American Studies 28 (3), 1983: 347-369.
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Ickstadt, Heinz. "Fiktion, Geschichte und die Spiele Robert Coovers." in: Gerhard Hoffmann (Ed.)
Der zeitgenössische amerikanische Roman: Von der Moderne zur Postmoderne. Bd.3: Autoren.
München: W. Fink, 1988: 94-114.
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Keezing, Michael F. "The Intransigent Penetration of a Metaphor: A Post-Interview Encounter with Robert Coover."
Conjunctions: The Web Forum of Innovative Writing, s.a.: s.p.
- Sciolina, Martina. "DeSublimating the Sublime: The Sacrificial Object in Robert Coover's
The Origin of the Brunists." Delta 28, 1989: 21-34.
- Vella, Michael W. "When Prophecy Fails: The Brunists and the Origins of Robert Coover's Dissonance."
Delta 28, 1989: 35-51.
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Weinstein, Arnold. "Robert Coover: Fiction as Fission." in:
Nobody's Home. Speech, Self, and Place in American Fiction from Hawthorne to DeLillo.. New York: Oxford UP, 1993: 235-264.
By Robert Coover
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Allensworth, J. "Robert Coover: A Bibliographic Chronicle of Primary Materials."
Bulletin of Bibliography 41 (2), 1984: 49-63.
Texts Related to The Public Burning
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Coover, Robert. "The Public Burning of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg: An Historical Romance." TriQuarterly 26, 1973: 262-281.
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Coover, Robert. "With Uncle Sam at Burning Tree." TriQuarterly 63, 1985: 289-308 [orig. 36, 1976: 3-23.].
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Coover, Robert. "The Public Burning Log 1966-77." Critique 42 (1), 2000: 84-114.
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Coover, Robert. "Tears of a Clown." Critique 42 (1), 2000: 81-83.
Other Texts
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Coover, Robert. "The Cat in the Hat for President." New American Review 4, 1968: 7-45.
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Coover, Robert. Pricksongs & Descants. New York: Grove, 2000 [1969].
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Coover, Robert. Spanking the Maid. New York: Grove, 1998 [1982].
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Coover, Robert. Gerald's Party. New York: Linden/Simon and Schuster, 1986.
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Coover, Robert. Whatever Happened to Gloomy Gus of the Chicago Bears?
New York: Linden/Simon and Schuster, 1987.
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Coover, Robert. A Night at the Movies, Or, You Must Remember This.
New York: Linden/Simon and Schuster, 1987.
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Coover, Robert. "In Answer to the Question: Why Do You Write?"
Revue Française d'Études Américaines 12 (31), 1987: 119-120.
(reprinted in Delta 28, 1989: 18.)
- Coover, Robert. "Masked Companions." Delta 28, 1989: 7-15.
- Coover, Robert. "A Fragment from 'Party Talk." Delta 28, 1989: 131-133.
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Coover, Robert. Pinocchio in Venice. New York: Linden/Simon and Schuster, 1991.
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Coover, Robert. Ghost Town. New York: H. Holt, 1998.
Interviews
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Bass, Thomas Alden. "An Encounter with Robert Coover." The Antioch Review 40 (3), 1982: 287-302.
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Gado, Frank. "Robert Coover." in: First Person. Conversations on Writers & Writing. Schenectady: Union College Press, 1973: 142-159.
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Hertzel, Leo J. "An Interview with Robert Coover." Critique 11 (3), 1969: 25-29.
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McCaffery, Larry. "As Guilty as the Rest of Them: An Interview with Robert Coover."
Critique 42 (1), 2000: 115-125.
Miscellaneous
On the Rosenberg Trial
On the 1950s
- Doherty, Thomas. Cold War, Cool Medium. Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.
- Griffith, Robert. The Politics of Fear. Joseph R. McCarthy and the Senate.
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1970.
Other Topics
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Antler, Joyce. The Journey Home. Jewish Women and the American Century.
New York: Free Press, 1997.
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Kraus, Harry P. The Settlement House Movement in New York City, 1886-1914.
New York: Arno Press, 1980.