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The Oxford encyclopedia of American literature
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Oxford University Press
Publication Date
2004
Language
English
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9780195156539
9780195167245
9780195167269
9780195307726
9780195167252
9780195167276
9780195167245
9780195167269
9780195307726
9780195167252
9780195167276
Table of Contents
From the Book
v. 1. Academic novels-The essay in America
v. 2. William Faulkner -Mina Loy
v. 3. Norman Mailer-Sentimental literature
v. 4. Anne Sexton-Writing as a woman in the twentieth century.
Volume 1 : Academic novels --
Adams, Henry --
Agee, James --
Aiken, Conrad --
Albee, Edward --
Alcott, Louisa May --
Alger, Horatio --
Algonquin Round Table --
Algren, Nelson --
Alvarez, Julia --
Ammons, A.R. --
Anderson, Sherwood --
Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio --
Angelou, Maya --
Ashbery, John --
Asian American literature --
Auden, W.H. --
Autobiography : general essay --
Autobiography : slave narratives --
Autobiography : white women during the Civil War --
Baldwin, James --
Banks, Russell --
Barnes, Djuana --
Barth, John --
Barthelme, Donald --
Beat Movement, The --
Beattie, Ann --
Bellow, Saul --
Benét, Stephen Vincent --
Berry, Wendell --
Berryman, John --
Bierce, Ambrose --
Bishop, Elizabeth --
Black Arts Movement --
Black Mountain poetry --
Bradstreet, Anne --
Brodkey, Harold --
Brooks, Gwendolyn --
Buck, Pearl S. --
Bukowski, Charles --
Burroughs, William S. --
Capote, Truman --
Carruth, Hayden --
Carver, Raymond --
Cather, Willa --
Cheever, John --
Chesnutt, Charles W. --
Chicago Renaissance --
Children's literature --
Chopin, Kate --
Collins, Billy --
Colonial writing in America --
Confessional poetry --
Cooper, James Fenimore --
Crane, Hart --
Stephen Crane's The red badge of courage --
Creeley, Robert --
Crèvecoeur, J. Hector St. John de Cummings, E.E. --
Dana, Richard Henry --
DeLillo, Don --
Detective fiction --
Dickey, James --
Dickinson, Emily --
Didion, Joan --
Dillard, Annie --
Doctorow, E.L. --
Dos Passos, John --
Douglass, Frederick --
Dreiser, Theodore --
Du Bois, W.E.B. --
Dunbar, Paul Laurence --
Edwards, Jonathan --
Eliot, T.S. --
T.S. Eliot's Four quartets --
T.S. Eliot's The waste land --
Elkin, Stanley --
Ellison, Ralph --
Emerson, Ralph Waldo --
Erdrich, Louise --
Essay in American, The.
Volume 2 : Faulkner, William --
William Faulkner's As I lay dying --
William Faulkner's The sound and the fury --
Fireside poets, The --
Fitzgerald, F. Scott --
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby --
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the night --
Ford, Richard --
Franklin, Benjamin --
Freneau, Philip --
Frost, Robert --
Fugitives and southern agrarianism, The --
Gardner, John --
Garland, Hamlin --
Gay literature : poetry and prose --
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The yellow wallpaper" --
Ginsberg, Allen --
Gioia, Dana --
Glasgow, Ellen --
Glück, Louise --
Gunn, Thom --
Hacker, Marilyn --
Alex Haley's The autobiography of Malcolm X --
Lorraine Hansberry's A raisin in the sun --
Hapgood, Hutchins --
Harlem Renaissance --
Harte, Bret --
Hawthorne, Nathaniel --
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet letter --
Hayden, Robert --
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) --
Hecht, Anthony --
Heller, Joseph --
Hellman, Lillian --
Ernest Hemingway's The sun also rises --
Henry, O. --
Hoagland, Edward --
Howard, Richard --
Howells, William Dean --
Hughes, Langston --
Hugo, Richard --
Hurston, Zora Neale --
Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God --
Imagism and American poets --
Irving, John --
Irving, Washington --
Italian-American literature --
Jackson, Laura Riding --
Shirley Jackson's "The lottery" --
James, Henry --
Henry James's The Ambassadors --
Henry James's The portrait of a lady --
Jarrell, Randall --
Jeffers, Robinson --
Jewett, Sarah Orne --
Jewish-American fiction --
Jong, Erica --
Jordan, June --
Justice, Donald --
Kazin, Alfred --
Kees, Weldon --
Kennedy, William --
Kerouac, Jack --
Jack Kerouac's On the road --
Kincaid, Jamaica --
King, Stephen --
KIngston, Maxine Hong --
Kinnell, Galway --
John Knowles's A separate peace --
Kunitz, Stanley --
Kushner, Tony --
Lardner, Ring --
Latino/Latina fiction in America --
Lazarus, Emma --
Harper Lee's To kill a mockingbird --
Levertov, Denise --
Levine, Philip --
Lewis, Sinclair --
Lindsay, Vachel --
Literary theory in America --
Little magazines --
London, Jack --
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth --
Long poem, The --
Lopez, Barry --
Lowell, Amy --
Lowell, Robert --
Loy, Mina.
Volume 3 : Mailer, Norman --
Malamud, Bernard --
Mamet, David --
David Mamet's American buffalo --
Masters, Edgar Lee --
Mather, Cotton --
Matthews, William --
Mathiessen, Peter --
McCarthy, Cormac --
McCarthy, Mary --
McClatchy, J.D. --
McCullers, Carson --
Carson McCullers's The ballad of the sad café --
McNally, Terrence --
McPhee, John --
Melville, Herman --
Herman Melville's "Bartleby the scrivener" --
Herman Melville's Moby-Dick --
Mencken, H.L. --
Merrill, James --
Merwin, W.S. --
Metafiction --
Millay, Edna St. Vincent --
Miller, Arthur --
Arthur Miller's Death of a salesman --
Miller, Henry --
Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind --
Momaday, N. Scott --
Moore, Marianne --
Morrison, Toni --
Toni Morrison's Beloved --
Nabokov, Vladimir --
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita --
Native American literature --
Naturalism and realism --
Nature writing : poetry --
Nature writing : prose --
Naylor, Gloria --
New critics, The --
New formalism, The --
New journalism, The --
New York School of Poets --
Norris, Frank --
Oates, Joyce Carol --
Objectivism (Reznikoff, Zukofsky, Oppen) --
O'Brien, Tim --
Time O'Brien's The things they carried --
O'Connor, Flannery --
O'Hara, John --
Olds, Sharon --
O'Neill, Eugene --
Eugene O'Neill's Long day's journey into night --
Ostriker, Alicia --
Ozick, Cynthia --
Paley, Grace --
Parker, Dorothy --
Pinsky, Robert --
Plath, Sylvia --
Sylvia Plath's The bell jar --
Poe, Edgar Allan --
Poetress in American literature, The --
Ponsot, Marie --
Popular fiction --
Porter, Katherine Anne --
Pound, Ezra --
Ezra Pound's The pisan cantos --
Proletarian literature --
Prose, Francine --
Proulx, Annie --
Puritanism : the sense of an unending --
Pynchon, Thomas --
Ransom, John Crowe --
Reed, Ishmael --
Rich, Adrienne --
Robinson, Edwin Arlington --
Roethke, Theodore --
Romanticism in America : the Emersonian tradition --
Roth, Henry --
Roth, Philip --
Rukeyser, Muriel -- Salinger, J.D. --
J.D. Salinger's The catcher in the rye --
Sandburg, Carl --
Schwartz, Delmore --
Science fiction --
Sentimental literature.
Volume 4 : Sexton, Anne --
Shepard, Sam --
Short story in America, The --
Silko, Leslie Marmon --
Simic, Charles --
Simms, William Gilmore, and Antebellum Southern literature --
Sinclair, Upton, and the Muckrakers --
Singer, Isaac Bashevis --
Smith, Dave --
Snyder, Gary --
Soto, Gary --
Stafford, Jean --
Stafford, William --
Stegner, Wallace --
Stein, Gertrude --
Steinbeck, John --
John Steinbeck's The grapes of wrath --
Stern, Gerald --
Stevens, Wallace --
Wallace Stevens's Notes toward a supreme fiction --
Stevenson, Anne --
Stone, Robert --
Stowe, Harriet Beecher --
Strand, Mark --
Styron, William --
Swenson, May --
Tarkington, Booth --
Tate, Allen --
Tate, James --
Taylor, Edward --
Taylor, Peter --
Theater in America --
Thoreau, Henry David --
Henry David Thoreau's Walden --
Thurber, James --
Tocqueville, Alexis de --
Transcendentalism --
Trilling, Lionel --
Twain, Mark --
Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn --
Updike, John --
Very, Jones --
Vidal, Gore --
Vietnam in poetry and prose --
Vonnegut, Kurt --
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five --
Walcott, Derek --
Walker, Alice --
War literature --
Warren, Robert Penn --
Robert Penn Warren's All the King's men --
Welty, Eudore --
West, Nathanael --
West Coast School --
Western fiction : Grey, Stenger, McMurty, McCarthy --
Wharton, Edith --
Edith Wharton's The age of innocence --
Wheatley, Phillis --
White, E.B. --
White, Edmund --
Whitman, Walt --
Walt Whitman's Song of myself --
Wideman, John Edgar --
Wilbur, Richard --
Wilder, Thornton --
Thornton Wilder's Our town --
Williams, Tennessee --
Tennessee William's The glass menagerie --
Tennessee Williams's A streetcar named Desire --
Williams, Terry Tempest --
Williams, William Carlos --
William Carlos Williams's Paterson --
Wilson, August --
Wilson, Edmund --
Wolfe, Thomas --
Wolff, Tobias --
Wright, Charles --
Wright, James --
Wright, Richard --
Richard Wright's Native son --
Writing as a woman in the twentieth century.
From the eBook
v. 1. Academic novels-The essay in America
v. 2. William Faulkner -Mina Loy
v. 3. Norman Mailer-Sentimental literature
v. 4. Anne Sexton-Writing as a woman in the twentieth century.
Volume 1 : Academic novels --
Adams, Henry --
Agee, James --
Aiken, Conrad --
Albee, Edward --
Alcott, Louisa May --
Alger, Horatio --
Algonquin Round Table --
Algren, Nelson --
Alvarez, Julia --
Ammons, A.R. --
Anderson, Sherwood --
Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio --
Angelou, Maya --
Ashbery, John --
Asian American literature --
Auden, W.H. --
Autobiography : general essay --
Autobiography : slave narratives --
Autobiography : white women during the Civil War --
Baldwin, James --
Banks, Russell --
Barnes, Djuana --
Barth, John --
Barthelme, Donald --
Beat Movement, The --
Beattie, Ann --
Bellow, Saul --
Benét, Stephen Vincent --
Berry, Wendell --
Berryman, John --
Bierce, Ambrose --
Bishop, Elizabeth --
Black Arts Movement --
Black Mountain poetry --
Bradstreet, Anne --
Brodkey, Harold --
Brooks, Gwendolyn --
Buck, Pearl S. --
Bukowski, Charles --
Burroughs, William S. --
Capote, Truman --
Carruth, Hayden --
Carver, Raymond --
Cather, Willa --
Cheever, John --
Chesnutt, Charles W. --
Chicago Renaissance --
Children's literature --
Chopin, Kate --
Collins, Billy --
Colonial writing in America --
Confessional poetry --
Cooper, James Fenimore --
Crane, Hart --
Stephen Crane's The red badge of courage --
Creeley, Robert --
Crèvecoeur, J. Hector St. John de Cummings, E.E. --
Dana, Richard Henry --
DeLillo, Don --
Detective fiction --
Dickey, James --
Dickinson, Emily --
Didion, Joan --
Dillard, Annie --
Doctorow, E.L. --
Dos Passos, John --
Douglass, Frederick --
Dreiser, Theodore --
Du Bois, W.E.B. --
Dunbar, Paul Laurence --
Edwards, Jonathan --
Eliot, T.S. --
T.S. Eliot's Four quartets --
T.S. Eliot's The waste land --
Elkin, Stanley --
Ellison, Ralph --
Emerson, Ralph Waldo --
Erdrich, Louise --
Essay in American, The.
Volume 2 : Faulkner, William --
William Faulkner's As I lay dying --
William Faulkner's The sound and the fury --
Fireside poets, The --
Fitzgerald, F. Scott --
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby --
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the night --
Ford, Richard --
Franklin, Benjamin --
Freneau, Philip --
Frost, Robert --
Fugitives and southern agrarianism, The --
Gardner, John --
Garland, Hamlin --
Gay literature : poetry and prose --
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The yellow wallpaper" --
Ginsberg, Allen --
Gioia, Dana --
Glasgow, Ellen --
Glück, Louise --
Gunn, Thom --
Hacker, Marilyn --
Alex Haley's The autobiography of Malcolm X --
Lorraine Hansberry's A raisin in the sun --
Hapgood, Hutchins --
Harlem Renaissance --
Harte, Bret --
Hawthorne, Nathaniel --
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet letter --
Hayden, Robert --
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) --
Hecht, Anthony --
Heller, Joseph --
Hellman, Lillian --
Ernest Hemingway's The sun also rises --
Henry, O. --
Hoagland, Edward --
Howard, Richard --
Howells, William Dean --
Hughes, Langston --
Hugo, Richard --
Hurston, Zora Neale --
Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God --
Imagism and American poets --
Irving, John --
Irving, Washington --
Italian-American literature --
Jackson, Laura Riding --
Shirley Jackson's "The lottery" --
James, Henry --
Henry James's The Ambassadors --
Henry James's The portrait of a lady --
Jarrell, Randall --
Jeffers, Robinson --
Jewett, Sarah Orne --
Jewish-American fiction --
Jong, Erica --
Jordan, June --
Justice, Donald --
Kazin, Alfred --
Kees, Weldon --
Kennedy, William --
Kerouac, Jack --
Jack Kerouac's On the road --
Kincaid, Jamaica --
King, Stephen --
KIngston, Maxine Hong --
Kinnell, Galway --
John Knowles's A separate peace --
Kunitz, Stanley --
Kushner, Tony --
Lardner, Ring --
Latino/Latina fiction in America --
Lazarus, Emma --
Harper Lee's To kill a mockingbird --
Levertov, Denise --
Levine, Philip --
Lewis, Sinclair --
Lindsay, Vachel --
Literary theory in America --
Little magazines --
London, Jack --
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth --
Long poem, The --
Lopez, Barry --
Lowell, Amy --
Lowell, Robert --
Loy, Mina.
Volume 3 : Mailer, Norman --
Malamud, Bernard --
Mamet, David --
David Mamet's American buffalo --
Masters, Edgar Lee --
Mather, Cotton --
Matthews, William --
Mathiessen, Peter --
McCarthy, Cormac --
McCarthy, Mary --
McClatchy, J.D. --
McCullers, Carson --
Carson McCullers's The ballad of the sad café --
McNally, Terrence --
McPhee, John --
Melville, Herman --
Herman Melville's "Bartleby the scrivener" --
Herman Melville's Moby-Dick --
Mencken, H.L. --
Merrill, James --
Merwin, W.S. --
Metafiction --
Millay, Edna St. Vincent --
Miller, Arthur --
Arthur Miller's Death of a salesman --
Miller, Henry --
Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind --
Momaday, N. Scott --
Moore, Marianne --
Morrison, Toni --
Toni Morrison's Beloved --
Nabokov, Vladimir --
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita --
Native American literature --
Naturalism and realism --
Nature writing : poetry --
Nature writing : prose --
Naylor, Gloria --
New critics, The --
New formalism, The --
New journalism, The --
New York School of Poets --
Norris, Frank --
Oates, Joyce Carol --
Objectivism (Reznikoff, Zukofsky, Oppen) --
O'Brien, Tim --
Time O'Brien's The things they carried --
O'Connor, Flannery --
O'Hara, John --
Olds, Sharon --
O'Neill, Eugene --
Eugene O'Neill's Long day's journey into night --
Ostriker, Alicia --
Ozick, Cynthia --
Paley, Grace --
Parker, Dorothy --
Pinsky, Robert --
Plath, Sylvia --
Sylvia Plath's The bell jar --
Poe, Edgar Allan --
Poetress in American literature, The --
Ponsot, Marie --
Popular fiction --
Porter, Katherine Anne --
Pound, Ezra --
Ezra Pound's The pisan cantos --
Proletarian literature --
Prose, Francine --
Proulx, Annie --
Puritanism : the sense of an unending --
Pynchon, Thomas --
Ransom, John Crowe --
Reed, Ishmael --
Rich, Adrienne --
Robinson, Edwin Arlington --
Roethke, Theodore --
Romanticism in America : the Emersonian tradition --
Roth, Henry --
Roth, Philip --
Rukeyser, Muriel -- Salinger, J.D. --
J.D. Salinger's The catcher in the rye --
Sandburg, Carl --
Schwartz, Delmore --
Science fiction --
Sentimental literature.
Volume 4 : Sexton, Anne --
Shepard, Sam --
Short story in America, The --
Silko, Leslie Marmon --
Simic, Charles --
Simms, William Gilmore, and Antebellum Southern literature --
Sinclair, Upton, and the Muckrakers --
Singer, Isaac Bashevis --
Smith, Dave --
Snyder, Gary --
Soto, Gary --
Stafford, Jean --
Stafford, William --
Stegner, Wallace --
Stein, Gertrude --
Steinbeck, John --
John Steinbeck's The grapes of wrath --
Stern, Gerald --
Stevens, Wallace --
Wallace Stevens's Notes toward a supreme fiction --
Stevenson, Anne --
Stone, Robert --
Stowe, Harriet Beecher --
Strand, Mark --
Styron, William --
Swenson, May --
Tarkington, Booth --
Tate, Allen --
Tate, James --
Taylor, Edward --
Taylor, Peter --
Theater in America --
Thoreau, Henry David --
Henry David Thoreau's Walden --
Thurber, James --
Tocqueville, Alexis de --
Transcendentalism --
Trilling, Lionel --
Twain, Mark --
Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn --
Updike, John --
Very, Jones --
Vidal, Gore --
Vietnam in poetry and prose --
Vonnegut, Kurt --
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five --
Walcott, Derek --
Walker, Alice --
War literature --
Warren, Robert Penn --
Robert Penn Warren's All the King's men --
Welty, Eudore --
West, Nathanael --
West Coast School --
Western fiction : Grey, Stenger, McMurty, McCarthy --
Wharton, Edith --
Edith Wharton's The age of innocence --
Wheatley, Phillis --
White, E.B. --
White, Edmund --
Whitman, Walt --
Walt Whitman's Song of myself --
Wideman, John Edgar --
Wilbur, Richard --
Wilder, Thornton --
Thornton Wilder's Our town --
Williams, Tennessee --
Tennessee William's The glass menagerie --
Tennessee Williams's A streetcar named Desire --
Williams, Terry Tempest --
Williams, William Carlos --
William Carlos Williams's Paterson --
Wilson, August --
Wilson, Edmund --
Wolfe, Thomas --
Wolff, Tobias --
Wright, Charles --
Wright, James --
Wright, Richard --
Richard Wright's Native son --
Writing as a woman in the twentieth century.
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