... edition of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca s th-century exploration narrative La relación / e Account ( ). e Recovery edition signaled a new gen- eration of scholarship on U.S. Hispanic literature before , an e ort Nicolás Kanellos launched from the University of Houston in . In , the Recovery Program...

... and expertise of its contributors. Joining the roster this year are a host of new essayists, and may their reward be great in references libraries. Todd H. Richard- son of the University of Texas of the Permian Basin succeeds Robert Habich as the author of Chapter 1 (“Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller...

...—especially the appearance of new Cambridge Companions and Cambridge Histories—dominate this market niche. While these ana- lytical volumes and chronicles are valuable teaching tools because they consolidate research in emerging fields, they break little new ground, unlike bibliographies, once...

... to this chapter nor a new supplement to Scribner s American Writers series was issued. To be sure, a number of handbooks, companions, and genre histories of bildungsromans, travelogues, summer books, and crime and science ction novels appeared, but many of them are pricey volumes published by Cambridge...

... afraid, at least in part to the burgeon- ing number of mediocre reference tools designed exclusively for sale to libraries. Like foul air in a balloon, they expand to Žll the available space. But to begin with the good news: A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry features 48 essays on a wide...

... of scholarship in the Želd continues to proliferate, and so a reminder to all readers: AmLS, including this 39th annual incarnation in the series, is perforce a selective review. The roster of contributors, of course, changes by the year. New to AmLS 2001 are Frank Kearful of Bonn University, who succeeds...

..., we have the real deal. As Karen V. Kukil tells us in her concise preface to the new volume, Plath fairly rigorously kept journals from age 11 until her death. Working from papers in the Plath Collection at Smith College, in her 732-page edition Kukil gives us the poet’s ‘‘adult journals from...

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... Duke University Press 2010 Key to Abbreviations Festschriften, Essay Collections, Beyond Douglass / Michael J. Drexler and Books Discussed in More and Ed White, eds., Beyond Than One Chapter Douglass: New Perspectives on Early...

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