American Literature - L - Oxford Bibliographies
Larsen, Nella
Dorothy Stringer
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Nella LarsenIntroductionNella Larsen (b. 1891–d. 1963) was born in Chicago to a white, Danish immigrant mother and a Black Virgin Islander father. Her...
Lazarus, Emma
Sharon Oster
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2022-09-26
Emma LazarusIntroductionEmma Lazarus (b. 1849–d. 1887) was born New York City, Esther (Nathan) and Moses Lazarus’s fourth child of seven. Ashkenazic o...
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Sandra J. Lindow
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2020-01-15
Ursula K. Le GuinIntroductionOne of the most influential voices in contemporary American literature, Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929–d. 2018) began publish...
Lewis, Sinclair
Sally Parry
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2019-03-27
Sinclair LewisIntroductionHarry Sinclair Lewis (b. 1885–d. 1951) was an astute critic of American society and the first American to win the Nobel Priz...
Literary Biography, American
Carl Rollyson
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2022-06-27
American Literary BiographyIntroductionBiographies of American literary figures did not come into currency until the country began to explore the pers...
Literature, Italian-American
Fred Gardaphe
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2021-09-22
Italian American LiteratureIntroductionThe earliest Italian American writers were immigrants who learned English and responded to their experience in ...
London, Jack
Jeanne Campbell Reesman
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Jack London Introduction John Griffith Chaney, later Jack London (b. 1876–d. 1916), was born into a turbulent bohemian world in San Francisco,...
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Christoph Irmscher
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Introduction It is not an exaggeration to say that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (b. 1807–d. 1882) was one of the worl...
Lost Generation
Craig Monk
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2018-08-28
Lost GenerationIntroductionThough first intended to denote Americans brought to Europe by the First World War, the “Lost Generation” refers to writers...
Lowell, Amy
Melissa Bradshaw
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2014-03-27
Amy Lowell Introduction Amy Lowell (b. 1874–d. 1925) was an American poet, critic, and lecturer. She is most closely identified with the Imagi...
Magazines, Nineteenth-Century American
Ashlyn Stewart, Kenneth M. Price
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2021-04-21
Nineteenth-Century American MagazinesIntroductionStudying the literature, history, or culture of 19th-century America often requires one to read magaz...
Mailer, Norman
Maggie McKinley
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2021-09-22
Norman MailerIntroductionNorman Mailer (b. 1923–d. 2007) was one of the most prolific American writers of the 20th century. Born in Long Branch, New J...
Malamud, Bernard
Martín Urdiales-Shaw
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2021-10-27
Bernard MalamudIntroductionBernard Malamud (1914–1986) was born of Russian Jewish immigrant parents and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Eras...
Manifest Destiny
Carolyn Kuchera
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Manifest DestinyIntroductionSimply defined, manifest destiny refers to the 19th-century doctrine that the expansion of the United States across the co...
Mather, Cotton
Reiner Smolinski
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Cotton Mather Introduction Few colonial Americans continue to divide public opinion as sharply as does Cotton Mather (b. 1663–d. 1728), whose ...
Maxwell, William
Gretchen Comba
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
William MaxwellIntroductionWilliam Maxwell (b. 1908–d. 2000) was born in Lincoln, Illinois, and lived there until he was fourteen, when he moved to Ch...
McCarthy, Cormac
Steven Frye
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2022-10-27
Cormac McCarthyIntroductionCormac McCarthy (b. 1933) was born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr. in Providence, Rhode Island, and moved as young child to Kno...
McKay, Claude
Myriam Chancy
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2015-03-10
Claude Mckay Introduction Claude McKay (b. 1889–d. 1948), born Festus Claudius McKay in Sunny Ville, Clarendon Parish, Jamaica, on 15 Septembe...
Melville, Herman
Dennis Berthold
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Herman Melville Introduction Herman Melville (b. 1819–d. 1891) was born in New York City into a proud and prosperous family. In 1830, however, ...
Merrill, James
David Ben-Merre, Heidi Wallace
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2020-01-15
James MerrillIntroductionJames Merrill (b. 1926–d. 1995) was one of the foremost American poets following the Second World War. Unlike many postwar po...
How to Subscribe
Oxford Bibliographies Online is available by subscription and perpetual access to institutions. For more information or to contact an Oxford Sales Representative click here.
