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The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature

Author
Hart, James D. Editor
Title
The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature
Format
E-Book
Edition
Reprint
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated Dec. 1988
Description
512 p. 09.190 x 06.130 in.
URL
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Series
Oxford Paperback Reference series
Notes
Available on campus and off campus with authorized login.
Target audience
Trade Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Summary
Annotation For nearly half a century, James D. Hart's Oxford Companion to American Literature has offered a matchless guided tour through American literary culture, both past and present. Hart now presents the first abridgement of the Companion in a paperback edition, making the entries of thegreatest general interest from the original volume available to a much wider audience. Compact and affordable, The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature contains over 2,000 entries, including brief biographies of important authors, plot summaries of individual works, descriptions of important literary movements, and a wealth of information on other aspects of Americanliterary life and history from the Colonial period to the modern era. It devotes approximately 325 of the biographical entries to contemporary writers, introducing such newcomers to the Companion as William Kennedy, Grace Paley, and Raymond Carver. The more specialized and esoteric entries from theoriginal have been omitted. Like its predecessor, The Concise Oxford Companion contains a thorough system of cross references to guide the reader to related information on a given topic, as well as a chronological Index outlining significant events in the literary and social history of the United States.
Subject headings
American Literature Dictionaries
Genre heading
Electronic books.
ISBN
9780195047714 0195047710 (Trade Paper)
Standard Identifier
9780195047714

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Kokomo Library
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East Library - Richmond
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