CONC OX COMP AMERICAN LIT (Oxford Paperback Reference) - Softcover

HART

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195047710 ISBN 13: 9780195047714

Publisher: Oxford University Press USA, 1988

Synopsis

This affordable volume contains over 2,000 entries, including brief biographies of important authors, plot summaries of individual works, and descriptions of important literary movements.

About this title

Review:

James D. Hart continues to display his phenomenal industry and immense range ... indispensable, provocative, and delightful to read. (Contemporary Review)

It is a model of its kind and must direct many readers to books and authors they may have missed. This book should be in every home reference library. Try it ... (Irish Press)

Guided tour through American literary culture with marvellous width of vision, from ballad to burlesque, Poe to Pound, dime novel to detective fiction, and all the other ways American writers have enriched us. (The Times)

This book is a joy. Lucid, informative, and almost up-to-the-minute. (Weekend Australian)

an abridged version of James Hart's superb Companion to American Literature ... Even so, this abridgment contains some 2000 entries and will give you everything ... you need to know about American literature.

Synopsis:

This reference work contains some 2,000 entries which include brief biographies of important authors, plot summaries, descriptions of literary movements and other information on aspects of literary life in America from the colonial period to the modern era.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press USA
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0195047710
• ISBN 13: 9780195047714
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512