American Literature - Oxford Bibliographies
"American Renaissance"
David S. Reynolds
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2016-11-28
“American Renaissance”IntroductionThe term American Renaissance, as applied to literature, was popularly established by the Harvard scholar F. O. Matt...
Adams, Henry
Philip Eppard
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2014-02-25
Henry Adams Introduction Henry Adams (b. 1838–d. 1918) was born in Boston into the most prominent political family in the United States. Grand...
African American Vernacular Tradition
LaMonda Horton-Stallings
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2017-02-28
African American Vernacular TraditionIntroductionThere are centuries worth of materials that can be classified as black vernacular tradition, some los...
Alcott, Louisa May
Anne K. Phillips
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2020-01-15
Louisa May AlcottIntroductionLouisa May Alcott (b. 1832–d. 1888) is among the most enduring of 19th-century American authors. Publishing in diverse ge...
Alexie, Sherman
Leah Sneider
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Sherman Alexie Introduction Sherman Alexie (Spokane/Coeur d’Alene) was born on October 7, 1966, on the Spokane Indian Reservation. He attended...
American Exceptionalism
Donald E. Pease
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2018-06-27
American ExceptionalismIntroductionThe concept of American exceptionalism has provided US citizens with a representative form of self-recognition acro...
American Literature and Religion
Joe Fulton
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2018-06-27
American Literature and ReligionIntroductionFrom the era of exploration and first contact to the present day, religion has always been a defining feat...
Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)
Jean-Philippe Marcoux
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2018-11-29
Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)IntroductionAmiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones) (b. 1934–d. 2014) is one of the most important African American artists ...
Anaya, Rudolfo
Robert Con Davis-Undiano
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2016-04-28
Rudolfo AnayaIntroductionRudolfo Alfonso Anaya (b. 30 October 1937) was born in Pastura and grew up in Santa Rosa, New Mexico. In 1952, his family mov...
Anderson, Sherwood
Chad Trevitte
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2014-03-27
Sherwood Anderson Introduction Born in Camden, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson (b. 1876–d. 1941) was the son of a harnessmaker whose failing business ...
Angel Island Poetry
Ying Xu
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2019-09-25
Angel Island PoetryIntroductionAngel Island poetry refers to Chinese poems carved on the barrack walls of the US Angel Island Immigration Station in S...
Antin, Mary
Maria Karafilis
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Mary AntinIntroductionMary Antin (b. 1881–d. 1949) was born in Polotzk, Russia. Her autobiographical narrative, The Promised Land, recollects a childh...
Anzaldúa, Gloria
Ariana Vigil
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Gloria AnzaldúaIntroductionGloria Evangelina Anzaldúa (b. 1942–d. 2004) was born in Raymondsville, Texas, in the lower Rio Grande Valley. She received...
Austin, Mary
Melody Graulich
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2013-11-27
Mary Austin Introduction Mary Hunter Austin (b. 1868–d. 1934) was born in Carlinville, Illinois, and graduated from Blackburn College in 1888....
Baldwin, James
D. Quentin Miller
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
James BaldwinIntroductionJames Baldwin (b. 1924–d. 1987) is widely considered to be the most important African American author of his time, particular...
Barth, John
Berndt Clavier
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2016-02-25
John BarthIntroductionJohn Barth (b. 1930) grew up in Cambridge, Maryland, and has spent most of his life around the Chesapeake Bay. He entered Johns ...
Beats
Charles Molesworth
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Beats Introduction The “Beats” formed a literary movement with a strong social and cultural vision, but, equally important, they embodied a un...
Bellamy, Edward
Peggy Ann Brown
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2018-07-24
Edward BellamyIntroductionBest known for his utopian novel Looking Backward, 2000–1887 (1888), Edward Bellamy (b. 1850–d. 1898) authored short stories...
Bellow, Saul
Allan R. Chavkin
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2020-07-29
Saul BellowIntroductionOver a career of six decades, Saul Bellow (1915–2005) published novels, short stories, essays, and plays that attracted immense...
Bible and American Literature, The
Jonathan A. Cook
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2019-04-24
The Bible and American LiteratureIntroductionIt is a critical commonplace that the King James Bible served as the moral and cultural foundation for th...
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