This guide lists selected sources for literary criticism of "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" by Flannery O'Connor.

Reference Books

Volume numbers in bold followed by page numbers.

• Contemporary Literary Criticism, (Ref PN 771 .C59) Volume(s):
  • 1: 251,255;
  • 2: 317
  • 3:366, 368
  • 6: 381
  • 10: 368
  • 15: 408, 412
  • 21: 256; 263, 270, 272
  • 66: 313, 330
  • 104: 105, 107, 117, 128, 138, 173, 175
• Masterplots II Short Story Series, (Ref PN 3326 .M27)
  • 3: 1589 - 1592
• Short Story Criticism, (Ref PN 3373 .S389) Volume(s):
  • 1: 339, 344, 347-49, 356, 358, 360-363, 371
  • 23: 178-241 Essays reproduced online in Literature Criticism Online database.
  • 61: 143, 146-47, 151-156; 169, 172, 186, 188-89, 197, 200, 214-216, 218, 227-30, 232, 234, 240-1
  • 82: 43-44, 50, 110, 124, 167
  • 111: 48, 50, 54, 77, 95, 99-100, 102, 106, 108
• Short Stories for Students (Ref PN 3373 .S56) Volume(s):
  • 2: 97-114 Some essays reproduced in Literature Resource Center database.
• Twentieth Century Literary Criticism (Ref PN 771 .T86) Volume(s):
  • 132: 227-368

Biographical Information (Reference Collection)

• American Writers, Vol. 3 (Ref PS 129 .A55)
• Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Novelists Since World War II (Ref PS 21 .D5 vol. 2)
• Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Novelists Since World War II, Fourth Series (Ref PS 21 .D5 vol. 152)
• Modern American Women Writers (Ref PS 151 .M54 1991)

General Collection Books (may be checked out)

• Baumgaertner, Jill P. Flannery O'Connor: A Proper Scaring. Wheaton, IL: Shaw, 1988. (PS 3565 .C57 Z584)
• Bloom, Harold, ed. Flannery O'Connor. New York: Chelsea House, 1986. (PS 3565 .C57 Z6678)
• Brinkmeyer, Robert H., Jr. The Art and Vision of Flannery O'Connor. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989. (PS 3565 .C57 Z587 1989)
• Friedman, Melvin J. and Beverly Lyon Clark, eds. Critical Essays on Flannery O'Connor. New York: Chelsea House, 1986. (PS 3565 .C57 Z64)
• Kirk, Connie Ann. Critical Companion to Flannery O'Connor. New York: Facts on File, 2008. (PS 3565 .C57 Z735 2008)
• Paulson, Suzanne, Morrow. Flannery O'Connor: A Study of the Short fiction. Boston: Twayne, 1988. (PS 3565 .C57 Z83 1988)

E-Books

• Dibble, Terry J. O'Connor's Short Stories. Lincoln, NE: Cliffs, 1986. netLibrary

Online Resources (Reference articles and Databases)

• Literature Resource Center
Full-text reproduction of some of the essays cited above in Short Story Criticism and Short Stories for Students.
• Literature Criticism Online. Reproduction of essays in Short Story Criticism, Vol. 23, p. 178-214.
• Literature Online. Knowledge Notes. Search: Criticism & Reference -> Reference -> Title -> Knowledge Notes.

Use periodical databases, such as Academic Search Premier, Masterfile Premier, JSTOR, for recent journal articles like those posted below.

• Bethea, Arthur F. "O'Connor's 'A Good Man is Hard to Find." Explicator 64 (2006): 239-42. [LION - Literature Online]
• Edgecombe, Rodney, Stenning. "O'Connor's 'A Good Man is Hard to Find." The Explicator 64 (2005): 56-58. [General OneFile/Academic OneFile]
• Keil. Katherine. "O'Connor's 'A Good Man is Hard to Find.'" Explicator 65 (2006): 44-47. [LION - Literature Online]
• Link, Alex. "Means. Meaning and mediated Space in 'A Good Man is Hard to Find.'" Southern Quarterly 44 (2007): 125-138. [LION - Literature Online]
• Mitchell, Mark T. "The Melancholy Tyrant: Democracy and Tyranny in Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man is Hard to Find.'" Perspectives on Political Science 34 (2005): 211-216. [General OneFile/Academic OneFile]
• Nester, Nancy L. "O'Connor's 'A Good Man is Hard to Find.'" The Explicator 64 (2006): 115-118. [General OneFile/Academic OneFile]
• Piwinski, David J. "'Gone With the Wind' in Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man is Hard to Find': An anagogical biblical Allusion." English Language Notes 38 (2001): 74-76. [General OneFile/Academic OneFile]