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Oct 25, 2023 · 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.
Apr 2, 2024 · The print Middle English Dictionary, now complete, has been described as "the greatest achievement in medieval scholarship in America." Its 15,000 pages offer a comprehensive analysis of lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500, based on the analysis of a collection of over three million citation slips, the largest collection of this kind available.
- Amanda Watson
- 2009
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Apr 12, 2024 · Credo Reference. Full text online collection of over 750 encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks and other reference works covering a spectrum of topics from the arts to the sciences. Gale eBooks (formerly Gale Virtual Reference Library) A large collection of specialized encyclopedias and reference sources.
- Stacy Reardon
- 2014
- Early Cultural Context
- The Rise of Literary Realism
- American Literature and The Early American Academy
- American Literature at The Turn of The Century
- American Literature and The Modern Academy: A Culmination
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The cultural trauma of the Civil War produced a permanently altered sense of national consciousness among Americans who lived through it and beyond it. But the war between the states was only one of manyphenomena of the late nineteenth century that transformed the United States from a country fundamentally sectionalist in attitude (e.g., New Englan...
By 1870 a new generation of American authors, committed to the tenets of literary realism, had begun to emerge. The realist artistic vision, though expressed in a variety of ways by hundreds of writers in the late nineteenth century, was, at least in principle, relatively uncomplicated: portray people, places, and things as they actually appear in ...
Although American authors enjoyed popular success among subscribers to national publications in the decades following the Civil War, American literature, generally speaking, had yet to achieve the status of serious art in the minds of those readers. Americans, still harboring lingering feelings of provincial inferiority a century after the signing ...
During the 1890s a profound and noticeable shift began taking place in American literature. A hallmark feature of post–Civil War American literary realism had been plots that featured characters confronting complex ethical dilemmas. Thus a fundamental assumption that lay behind many realist texts was that the individual possesses the free will to d...
The transition of American literature studies into an age of modern sophistication began just after the end of World War I. In April 1921 the final two volumes of The Cambridge History of American Literature appeared, providing American literary studies with its long-sought sense of critical legitimacy. Later that same year scholars of American lit...
Primary Works
Boynton, Percy. A History of American Literature.Boston: Ginn, 1919. Cairns, W. B. A History of American Literature. New York: Oxford UniversityPress, 1912. Crane, Stephen. Maggie, A Girl of the Streets. 1893. Edited by Thomas Gullason. New York: Norton, 1979. Erskine, John, Stuart P. Sherman, William Peterfield Trent, and Carl Van Doren, eds. The Cambridge History of American Literature.4 vols. New York: Putnam, 1917–1921. Foerster, Norman, ed. American Poetry and Prose.2 vols. Boston and Ne...
Secondary Works
Csicsila, Joseph. Canons by Consensus: Critical Trends and American Literature Anthologies.Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2004. Graff, Gerald. Professing Literature: An Institutional History. Chicago: University of ChicagoPress, 1987. Vanderbilt, Kermit. American Literature and the Academy: The Roots, Growth, and Maturity of a Profession. Philadelphia: University of PennsylvaniaPress, 1986. Joseph Csicsila
Jan 5, 2024 · Part of the Literature Online database, the Encyclopedia provides biographical and critical information on almost 150 American poets, as well as topical essays on "Nineteenth-Century Versions of American Indian Poetry," "Popular Poetry," "Songs and Ballads," and "Spirituals."
- Stephanie Bartz
- 2010
Oct 21, 2020 · Encyclopedia of American literature. V. 1. Settlement to the new republic: 1607-1815 / rev. and augmented by Susan Clair Imbarrato from the first ed. prepared by Carol Berkin -- v. 2. The age of Romanticism and realism 1816-1895 / rev. and augmented by Brett Barney from the first ed. prepared by Lisa Paddock -- v. 3.
