The Oxford Companion to American Literature

viii, 890 pp. "Alphabetically arranged, the volume contains short biographies and bibliographies of American authors, with information regarding their style and subject matter; summaries and descriptions of hundreds of the important American novels, stories, essays, poems, and plays; definitions and historical outlines of literary schools and movements; and information on literary societies, magazines, anthologies, co-operative publications, literary awards, book collectors, printers, and other matters related to writing in America."