Literary History of the United States, in Three Volumes [Two Volumes + Bibliography]

xx, 636; vi, 639-1422, xxii, 817 pp. Three volume set. A collection of essays on the present state of resources and scholarship in American literary culture. Topics include: dictionaries and digests; bibliographies by period and time; the Colonial Period through the 20th century; American language; folk literature; songs and ballads; folk tales and humor; Indian lore; juvenile literature; hymns and hymn writing; almanacs and chapbooks; Pennsylvania German; other languages; slavery; and more.