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The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature

Edited by Jay Parini, Phillip W. Leininger

2004 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

2004 Pennsylvania School Librarians Association “Best Reference Title”

2004 Library Journal Best Reference

350 entries

This award-winning Encyclopedia surveys the vibrant terrain of American literature in 350 essays from leading scholars, encompassing the range and depth of American literary history from the 1600s to the present day. The Encyclopedia includes essays on poets, playwrights, essayists, and novelists, as well as major works and essays on literary movements, periods, and themes. No mere catalog of dates, events, and synopses, the Encyclopedia's articles offer historical perspective and social context along with a range of possibilities with regard to critical approach.

Bibliographic Information

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Print Publication Date:
2004
Print ISBN-13:
9780195156539
Published to Oxford Reference:
2005
Current Online Version:
2005
eISBN:
9780195307726

Authors

Jay Parini, editor

Phillip W. Leininger, editor

Jay Parini is Axinn Professor of English at Middlebury College. He is the author of several poems and books including Robert Frost: A Life and House of Days: Poems.

Phillip Leininger, after a twenty-year career as acquiring editor for Holt and Harper, and as consulting editor for Oxford University Press, has taught literature, fiction, and poetry at Marist College, Empire State College, and at SUNY-Albany. He is co-editor of Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature with George and Barbara Perkins and was in-house editor for The American Tradition in Literature and the Harper American Literature.

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