World of Relations

The study is thoroughly analytical, principally of themes rather than techniques, and robustly evaluative.

~Choice

Robinson is smart and subtle, revealing considerable insights into the complex layers of Taylor's fiction and plays.

~David Lynn

Encourages not only a reevaluation of Taylor's essential themes, but also new approaches that might situate Taylor's work in relation to other mid-century diagnosticians of family collapse.

~Mississippi Quarterly

Sensitive, informed, and insightful, Robinson's study deftly explores Taylor's richly nuanced fictional world, particularly the complex dynamics of domestic and cultural turmoil lurking just beneath the mannered calm of southern gentility.

~Robert Brinkmeyer

Robinson shows through sound survey and analysis how Taylor's entire oeuvre is of a piece artistically and thematically.

~Southern Literary Journal

A very helpful examination of a major storyteller.

~Southern Seen

Demonstrates the enormous complexity of Taylor's characters.

~Virginia Quarterly Review

Deftly connecting struggles for independence within the family setting to larger tensions within the social structure of the South at midcentury, Robinson establishes Taylor's place among the leading chroniclers of Southern culture in the twentieth century.

~American Literature