Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night - New Edition

Sep 20, 2026

Uploaded by Violet

An edited literary criticism volume presenting a curated scholarly exploration of Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night in its new edition form. Harold Bloom provides an introduction that frames O’Neill’s dramatic “presence” and the play’s descent into darkness, despair, and tragic power. Additional essays examine modernism, post-modernism, maternal loss, authority in the last act, the spare room, panoptic theatrical effects, blame, and the seen and unseen, supported by a bibliography, index, and chronology.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLiterature

FormatPDF

Pages248

Reading Time6 h 22 min

AccessFree to download

Editor’s Note

Introduction

Harold Bloom

Bruce J. Mann

Laurin Porter

Marc Maufort

Gerardine Meaney

Richard B. Sewall

Kurt Eisen

Michael Selmon

Anne Fleche

Barbara Voglino

Lawrence Dugan

Egil Törnqvist

Magdalen Wing-chi Ki

Chronology

Contributors

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Age of Innocence Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland All Quiet on the Western Front As You Like It The Ballad of the Sad Café Beloved Beowulf Black Boy The Bluest Eye The Canterbury Tales Cat on a Hot Tin Roof The Catcher in the Rye Catch-22 The Chronicles of Narnia The Color Purple Crime and Punishment The Crucible Darkness at Noon Death of a Salesman The Death of Artemio Cruz Don Quixote Emerson’s Essays Emma Fahrenheit 451 A Farewell to Arms Frankenstein The Glass Menagerie The Grapes of Wrath Great Expectations The Great Gatsby Gulliver’s Travels Hamlet The Handmaid’s Tale Heart of Darkness I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings The Iliad Jane Eyre The Joy Luck Club The Jungle Long Day’s Journey Into Night Lord of the Flies The Lord of the Rings Love in the Time of Cholera The Man Without Qualities The Metamorphosis Miss Lonelyhearts Moby-Dick My Ántonia Native Son Night 1984 The Odyssey Oedipus Rex The Old Man and the Sea On the Road One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest One Hundred Years of Solitude Persuasion Portnoy’s Complaint Pride and Prejudice Ragtime The Red Badge of Courage Romeo and Juliet The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám The Scarlet Letter A Separate Peace Silas Marner Song of Solomon The Sound and the Fury The Stranger A Streetcar Named Desire Sula The Tale of Genji A Tale of Two Cities“The Tell-Tale Heart” and Other Stories Their Eyes Were Watching God Things Fall Apart To Kill a Mockingbird Ulysses Waiting for Godot The Waste Land Wuthering Heights Young Goodman Brown | Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations | | --- | | Eugene O’Neill’s
Long Day’s Journey into Night
New Edition | Edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom Sterling Professor of the Humanities Yale University Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations: Long Day’s Journey into Night—New Edition Copyright © 2009 by Infobase Publishing Introduction © 2009 by Harold Bloom All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher. For more information contact: Bloom’s Literary Criticism An imprint of Infobase Publishing 132 West 31st Street New York NY 10001 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data O’Neill, Eugene, 1888–1953. Eugene O’Neill’s Long day’s journey into night / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.—New ed. [p. cm](p. cm).—(Bloom’s modern critical interpretations) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-60413-390-5 (hardcover) 1. O’Neill, Eugene, 1888–1953. Long day’s journey into night. I. Bloom, Harold. II. Title. III. Series. PS3529.N5L634 2009 812’.52—dc20 2008049240 Bloom’s Literary Criticism books are available at special discounts when purchased in bulk quantities for businesses, associations, institutions, or sales promotions. Please call our Special Sales Department in New York at (212) 967-8800 or (800) 322-8755. You can find Bloom’s Literary Criticism on the World Wide Web at [http://www.chelseahouse.com](http://www.chelseahouse.com). Contributing editor: Pamela Loos Cover designed by Takeshi Takahashi Printed in the United States of America IBT EJB 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 This book is printed on acid-free paper. All links and Web addresses were checked and verified to be correct at the time of publication. Because of the dynamic nature of the Web, some addresses and links may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. Contents Editor’s Note vii Introduction 1 Harold Bloom O’Neill’s “Presence” in Long Day’s Journey into Night 7 Bruce J. Mann Long Day’s Journey into Night: Descent into Darkness 19 Laurin Porter American Flowers of Evil: Long Day’s Journey into Nig

FAQs

Who edited and introduced the new edition of Long Day’s Journey into Night?

Harold Bloom edited the volume and wrote the introduction for the new edition.

What major themes do the essays in the volume examine?

The essays address despair and dramatic loneliness, modernist and post-modernist elements, maternal loss, tragic power, theatrical structure, and questions of blame.

Does the book include reference materials beyond the main essays?

Yes. It includes a chronology, bibliography, acknowledgments, and an index, along with contributors and an editor’s note.

Sep 20, 2026

Uploaded by Violet