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Oct 21, 2020 · Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide biographical and critical information about American authors from 1946 to the present, as well as information on key works and topics that influenced American literature during the time
Aug 11, 2020 · The Oxford encyclopedia of American literature. Publication date. 2004. Topics. American literature -- Encyclopedias. Publisher. Oxford, Eng. ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press. Collection.
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Apr 5, 2024 · The encyclopedia facilitates access to facts about major literary works, characters, authors, themes, vessels, places, and ideas that are central to American sea literature. Each of the several hundred entries is written by an expert contributor and many provide bibliographical information.
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American poetry
1. For a more extensive listing see Category:American poetry. 1. "Thanatopsis", by William Cullen Bryant(1811) 2. "Defence of Fort McHenry" ("Star-Spangled Banner"), by Francis Scott Key(1814) 3. "To a Waterfowl", by William Cullen Bryant(1818) 4. "The Raven", by Edgar Allan Poe(1845) 5. The Song of Hiawatha, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(1855) 6. "Bury Me in a Free Land", by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper(1858) 7. "Paul Revere's Ride", by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(1861) 8. "O Captain! My Capt...
American novels
1. For a more extensive listing see Category:American novels. 1. The Last of the Mohicans, by James Fenimore Cooper(1826) 2. Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.(1840) 3. The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne(1850) 4. The House of the Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne(1851) 5. Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville(1851) 6. Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe(1851) 7. Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott(1868) 8. The Prince and the Pauper, by Mark Twain(1882) 9. Adventur...
American short stories
1. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", by Washington Irving(1819) 2. "Rip Van Winkle", by Washington Irving(1819) 3. "The Fall of the House of Usher", by Edgar Allan Poe(1839) 4. "The Pit and the Pendulum", by Edgar Allan Poe(1843) 5. "The Tell-Tale Heart", by Edgar Allan Poe(1843) 6. "Rappaccini's Daughter", by Nathaniel Hawthorne(1844) 7. "Bartleby the Scrivener", by Herman Melville(1856) 8. "The Man without a Country", by Edward Everett Hale(1863) 9. "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Co...
The Poets and Poetry of America, edited by Rufus Wilmot Griswold(1842)The Female Prose Writers of America, edited by John Seely Hart(1852)The Book of American Negro Poetry, edited by James Weldon Johnson(1922)Representative American Plays, edited by Arthur Hobson Quinn(1922)Books
1. A History of the American Theatre (1832) by William Dunlap (external scan) 2. The Cambridge History of American Literature(1917) 3. Our Poets of Today (1918) by Howard Willard Cook 4. The American Novel (1921/1940) by Carl Clinton Van Doren (1940 version) 5. Contemporary American Novelists 1900-1920 (1922) by Carl Clinton Van Doren (transcription project) 6. Americans (1922) by Stuart Pratt Sherman 7. Studies in Classic American Literature (1923) by D. H. Lawrence
Articles and Chapters
1. "American Literature" in America To-Day, Observations and Reflections (1900) by William Archer 2. "Supernatural Horror in Literature", by H. P. Lovecraft(1927)
Encyclopedic articles
1. "Literature of the United States" in The American Cyclopædia (1879)by C. S. Weyman and Robert Carter 2. "American Literature," in Encyclopædia Britannica(11th ed., 1911)
Child portals
1. United States Poets Laureate 2. Pulitzers 3. Harlem Renaissance 4. The Charles Henry Gauss Family Papers
Parent portals
1. Portal:English language 2. Portal:English literature
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1. Portal:United States- for works created by or written about the United States government or its agencies.
May 17, 2024 · Together the chapters add up to a systematic critical account of, for example Plato, Luther, Jane Austen, Tom Stoppard or Stravinsky, the French Novel or Jewish American Literature, and each title is supported by reference features such as a chronology and guide to further reading.
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Jun 1, 2013 · Explores America’s literary beginnings and the connections between early American history and the nation’s emerging literary tradition—covering the Puritans and their Bay Psalm Book, the Federalists and the United States Constitution, Benjamin Franklin, Phillis Wheatley, and more.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature is a 2004 encyclopedia published by Oxford University Press and edited by Jay Parini . Content.
