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<br> For more than half a century, James D. Hart's <em>The Oxford Companion to American Literature</em> has been an unparalleled guide to America's literary culture, providing one of the finest resources to this country's rich history of great writers. Now this acclaimed work has been completely revised and updated to reflect current developments in the world of American letters. <p>For the sixth edition, editors James D. Hart and Phillip Leininger have updated the <em>Companion</em> in light of what has happened in American literature since 1982. To this end, they have revised the entries on such established authors as Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, and Joyce Carol Oates, and they have added more than 180 new entries on novelists (T. Coraghessan Boyle, Tim O'Brien, Louise Erdrich, Don De Lillo), poets (Rita Dove, Weldon Kees), playwrights (Wendy Wasserstein, August Wilson), popular writers (Stephen King, Louis L'Amour), historians (James M. McPherson, David Herbert Donald, William Manchester), naturalists (Aldo Leopold, Edward Abbey), and literary critics (Camille Paglia, Richard Ellmann). In addition, the <em>Companion</em> boasts more women's, African-American, and ethnic voices, w
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- Author
- Hart, James David;Leininger, Phillip W
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 1995
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780199891047
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Memoir, Biography
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