... and Profession’’ (pp. xv–xxiv) by Lance Schachterle (another LS!) and a selected bibliography of relevant scholarly studies. At four volumes, almost 1,900 total pages, and 58 individually authored topic essays, The Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture, ed. M. Thomas Inge and Dennis Hall...

.... The former o√ers 70 signed essays, the latter 78, in alphabetical order, each entry sub- divided into sections on biography, major works and themes, critical reception, and bibliography. Asian American Novelists is especially helpful 522 General Reference Works...

... “scholarly blog” is an oxymoron, like “loose tights” and “plastic silverware.” Commonly blogs are not peer reviewed, and often they are intellectually dishonest because they sell the books they puff in order to pay the cost of online maintenance. Few book-length primary or secondary bibliographies...

...David J. Nordloh © 2000 Duke University Press 2000 22 General Reference Works David J. Nordloh Electronic technology makes possible faster and more comprehensive access to information, including bibliographical information. The MLA International Bibliography, Arts and Humanities Citation...

... is throughout carefully, unobtrusively maintained. The essays are expansive, well written, accompanied by primary and secondary bibliographies and cross-references to other relevant entries within that set (but not to those in the other), and addressed to a broadly knowledgeable audience...

...Gary Scharnhorst Duke University Press 2009 21  General Reference Works Gary Scharnhorst In recent years we have seen a dramatic decline in the production and publication of basic bibliographical and research tools. To paraphrase Pete Seeger, “Where have all the bibliographies...

... detailing the most significant events in the lifetime of Ralph Waldo Emerson, expanding that focal material with the birth and death dates of other important figures. Myerson also provides bibliographies on individuals, movements (Fruitlands, Brook Farm), and major Transcendentalist publications...

... Mountain School ‘ ‘Harlem Renaissance ‘ ‘ Little Magazines and Small Presses’’ ). All entries feature a bibliography and a list of works for further reading. An admirable addition to the reference shelf, The Oxford Companion to United States History, ed. Paul S. Boyer et al., focuses...

... book, since its index is modest and the core of the discussion is unsupported by chronologies or other apparatus, and not quite a textbook, since its bibliography too is minimal, this His- tory is above all a highly readable, jargon-free, and engaging one-person look at its subject, the more...

... in the movement, including Kate Chopin. The volume includes an index and a 20-plus page selected bibliography. Icons of the American West: From Cowgirls to Silicon Valley, ed. Gordon Morris Bakken (Greenwood), belongs to the curious Greenwood Icons series: “Every title offers an in-depth look at 27...

...David J. Nordloh © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 Foreword The MLA Bibliography ceased print publication with the 2008 volume, and this essential, long-standing scholarly resource will hereafter be available solely as an electronic database. The step was almost inevitable...

... during his absence more than 1,500 items in American literature listed in the latest MLA bibliography. It seemed to me that there was a real need for an annual review in which various scholars would survey the past year s work in American literature within their particular areas of competence He also...

... in Fish- kin’s self-aggrandizing fashion. She repeatedly cites her own scholarship and an online journal she founded in 2009, and her name appears no fewer than 39 times in the article, including notes and bibliography. In fact, I was struck this year by the tendency of scholars to footnote...

... literature, and Puerto Rican American drama. Similarly, M. Delores Carlito focuses on a specific ethnicity and genre in Cuban-American Fiction in English: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources (Scarecrow). Carlito discusses fiction set in Cuba or the United States immediately...

... literary scholars were baseball players, Professor Klinkowitz would be Cal Ripken. To judge from the number of column inches of citations in the MLA Bibliography, the sheer mass of scholarship in the field of American literary studies has leveled off over the past decade under the pressure...

... the intentional fallacy when speculating about the Province-House legends. Attempting to excavate similar territory, ESQ presents a special double issue devoted to a topic trite and true, the friendship between Hawthorne and Melville. i Editions and Bibliography Although editions of The Scarlet Letter...

... is alive and well, though it may occasionally live incog- nito in a philosophy department or creative writing program. The sheer volume of scholarship on American literature, to judge from the MLA Bibliography, seems to have leveled o√ at about 7,500 scholarly notes, articles, book chapters, books...

... technologies, especially the Internet and access to the online MLA Bibliography. Yet over these past few years I’ve also discovered to my dismay that training in basic research skills—a skill set acquired by all contributors to AmLS—is increasingly neglected in graduate programs in English. The old...

... Bibliography, which because of the sheer mass of material often needs several years to cover a specific publication year comprehensively. The citation system employed in AmLS is consistent with that of the MLA, but with some further compression: books frequently discussed are given short titles...

...David J. Nordloh © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Foreword Many of the mechanical details involved in producing American Literary Scholarship have changed since my first effort as editor for the 1986 vol- ume. The preprint of the MLAInternational Bibliography, once delivered...