Modern American Literature

Edition 5
Published by St. James Press

This important reference gives readers fascinating insight into the careers of nearly 500 20th-century writers. Entries are comprised of important critical excerpts, chronologically arranged, and collected from a wide variety of sources such as books, scholarly journals, general periodicals and newspapers. Recently acquired from the Continuum Publishing Company, this new edition greatly expands the coverage of this respected work, including a greater number of black and women writers. Authors covered include:

Review:

"Useful for libraries that like to make available prepackaged literary criticism or for those that lack extensive print or full-text database journal collections."
-- CHOICE (July/August 1999)

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