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"These 350 essays on writers and movements from the 1600s to the present illuminate the richness of American literature....Provides a wealth of reliable information about standard bearers of American literature in an easy-on-the-eyes formant for students and general readers." --School Library Journal "These 350 essays on writers and movements from the 1600's to the present illuminate the richness of American literature." ...More accessible than the chronological Encyclopedia of American Literature (Facts On File, 2002) and more concise than the "American Writers" literary biography series (Scribners), Oxford provides a wealth of reliable information on standard bearers of American literature in an easy-on-the-eyes format for students and general readers."--School Library Journal "...readily approachable. ...the 350 articles, contributed by scholars and critics, are...well written and researched. ...the range of topics discussed is also commendable."--Library Journal, "These 350 essays on writers and movements from the 1600s to the present illuminate the richness of American literature....Provides a wealth of reliable information about standard bearers of American literature in an easy-on-the-eyes formant for students and general readers." --School Library Journal"These 350 essays on writers and movements from the 1600's to the present illuminate the richness of American literature." ...More accessible than the chronological Encyclopedia of American Literature (Facts On File, 2002) and more concise than the "American Writers" literary biography series (Scribners), Oxford provides a wealth of reliable information on standard bearers of American literature in an easy-on-the-eyes format for students and generalreaders."--School Library Journal"...readily approachable. ...the 350 articles, contributed by scholars and critics, are...well written and researched. ...the range of topics discussed is also commendable."--Library Journal"Clear, accessible, and attentive to recent developments in scholarship and criticism."--College and Research Libraries"This encyclopedia brings together 350 signed, alphabetically arranged essays on American literature from the colonial period to the present. The majority of well-known American authors in the canon are surveyed here, including favorites such as Faulkner, Frost, Hawthorne, Melville, Salinger, and Whitman....The Oxford encyclopedia set does a wonderful job of covering American literature's core in depth. When compared to other similar sources, Oxford isintrinsically better....The Oxford set is praiseworthy and recommended for most high-school, public, and academic libraries."--Booklist"These 350 essays on writers and movements from the 1600's to the present illuminate the richness of American literature." ...More accessible than the chronological Encyclopedia of American Literature (Facts On File, 2002) and more concise than the "American Writers" literary biography series (Scribners), Oxford provides a wealth of reliable information on standard bearers of American literature in an easy-on-the-eyes format for students and generalreaders."--School Library Journal"...readily approachable. ...the 350 articles, contributed by scholars and critics, are...well written and researched. ...the range of topics discussed is also commendable."--Library Journal"These 350 essays on writers and movements from the 1600s to the present illuminate the richness of American literature....Provides a wealth of reliable information about standard bearers of American literature in an easy-on-the-eyes formant for students and general readers." --School Library Journal, "These 350 essays on writers and movements from the 1600s to the present illuminate the richness of American literature....Provides a wealth of reliable information about standard bearers of American literature in an easy-on-the-eyes formant for students and general readers." --School Library Journal"These 350 essays on writers and movements from the 1600's to the present illuminate the richness of American literature." ...More accessible than the chronological Encyclopedia of American Literature (Facts On File, 2002) and more concise than the "American Writers" literary biography series (Scribners), Oxford provides a wealth of reliable information on standard bearers of American literature in an easy-on-the-eyes format for students and general readers."--School Library Journal"...readily approachable. ...the 350 articles, contributed by scholars and critics, are...well written and researched. ...the range of topics discussed is also commendable."--Library Journal, "These 350 essays on writers and movements from the 1600s to the present illuminate the richness of American literature....Provides a wealth of reliable information about standard bearers of American literature in an easy-on-the-eyes formant for students and general readers." --School LibraryJournal "These 350 essays on writers and movements from the 1600's to the present illuminate the richness of American literature." ...More accessible than the chronological Encyclopedia of American Literature (Facts On File, 2002) and more concise than the "American Writers" literary biography series (Scribners), Oxford provides a wealth of reliable information on standard bearers of American literature in an easy-on-the-eyes format for students and general readers."--School Library Journal "...readily approachable. ...the 350 articles, contributed by scholars and critics, are...well written and researched. ...the range of topics discussed is also commendable."--Library Journal
