american literature

Contains essays that provide information about the lives and works of eighteen authors who have made significant contributions to American literature, each with a brief biography, a critical analysis of the writer's work, and a selected bibliography; arranged alphabetically from Budbill to Weigl.

A collection of essays on the lives and careers of eighteen significant American authors, providing a critical analysis and evaluation of the writer's work and a selected bibliography, arranged alphabetically from Charles Frederick Briggs to Robert Wrigley; and includes a cumulative index.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide information on American popular fiction, covering significant writers, including Dan Brown, Tom Clancy, Anne Rice, and others, and novels, such as "The Bourne Identity," "The Horse Whisperer," and "The Silence of the Lambs.".

Presents over nine hundred character studies, arranged alphabetically by author, then by work, from American literature, with an analysis and discussion of the character's role, and includes several study questions for each entry, lists for further reading, and an appendix of specialized indexes.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide biographical and critical information about American authors from Colonial times through the early twenty-first century, with more than seventy essays on a variety of literature-related topics.

A collection of essays on the lives and careers of eighteen significant American authors, providing a critical analysis and evaluation of the writer's work and a selected bibliography, arranged alphabetically from Apple to Wright.

Contains a collection of twenty essays, short stories, and poems by Mexican and Chicano authors, including Anaya, Fuentes, Paz, Reyes, and others.

Contains a collection of essays on the lives and careers of eighteen significant American authors, providing a critical analysis and evaluation of the writer's work and a selected bibliography, arranged alphabetically from Allen to Wright.

A collection of reviews and essays that traces the critical reputation of Vonnegut's major works and early fiction.

A collection of reviews and essays that traces the critical reputation of Salinger's novel.