...: how will these trends, if they continue, affect hiring, tenure, and promotion decisions in the future? I should touch here on one other issue specific to the annual: the title of Chapter 21. Several years ago David Nordloh and I, as the editors of AmLS in alternating years, changed it from...

...David J. Nordloh Copyright © 2022 Duke University Press 2022 nordloh@indiana.edu 22 General Reference Works David J. Nordloh In an environment so thoroughly dominated by online information resources and the search tools capable of diving deep and thoroughly into them, the continuing...

...David J. Nordloh Duke University Press 2004 Foreword The present volume is the 40th in this continuing series. In his founding foreword to the first volume, covering work published in 1963, James Woodress commented that the more than 1,500 items listed in American literature...

...David J. Nordloh Duke University Press 2004 13 Late-19th-Century Literature David J. Nordloh The year’s work is strong in historicist projects and includes studies in the implications in literature of the evolving science of the brain and of urban psychology. The more...

...David J. Nordloh © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 American Literary Scholarship (2018) doi 10.1215/00659142-8287989 © 2020 by Duke University Press 20 General Reference Works David J. Nordloh Among the highlights in this year s reference publications are a modest and thoughtful survey...

...David J. Nordloh © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 20  General Reference Works David J. Nordloh It is possible that in the past year a teacher of American literature or an undergraduate or graduate student pursuing the field has actually taken a reference book down from...

...David J. Nordloh Duke University Press 2010 22  General Reference Works David J. Nordloh The instant delivery of information made possible by the Internet, its search engines, and its almost universal access to data would seem logi- cally to doom reference books. But I count...

...David J. Nordloh Duke University Press 2006 22  General Reference Works David J. Nordloh African American literature, women writers, and American drama, areas of particular emphasis in reference publication in the recent past, retain their prominence this year, and the usual...

...David J. Nordloh © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 21  General Reference Works David J. Nordloh I have noised complaints for some time now about the decline in the number and quality of printed reference materials. But the number, the variety, and the quality of the items...

...David J. Nordloh Duke University Press 2002 22 General Reference Works David J. Nordloh Areas of emphasis in reference publication generally reflect the enthusi- asms of the field they address. Race, ethnicity, and gender figure promi- nently in literary study today, and genre...

...David J. Nordloh Duke University Press 2004 21 General Reference Works David J. Nordloh I have suggested in the past that additions to the reference shelf tend generally to follow the critical directions of the scholarship in the field; the increasing number of titles addressing...

...David J. Nordloh © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 21  General Reference Works David J. Nordloh In “The Library of Babel” (1942) the Argentinian author—and librar- ian—Jorge Luis Borges describes an infinite library, its books containing every possible combination...

...David J. Nordloh Duke University Press 2008 21  General Reference Works David J. Nordloh The pervasiveness of the Internet and electronic publication has for some years brought forth gloomy forecasts of the demise of the printed book. Such pronouncements have so far proved...

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...David J. Nordloh © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 American Literary Scholarship (2018) doi 10.1215/00659142-8639403 © 2020 by Duke University Press Foreword With this volume, and in acknowledgment of the changing landscape of book production and distribution, American Literary Scholarship...

...David J. Nordloh Duke University Press 2002 Foreword dedicated to the memory of robert h. mirandon 7 January 1935–17 May 2001 Bob Mirandon—I doubt if he ever identified himself more formally than that—died suddenly in mid-May 2001, just after completing the last of his tasks...

...David J. Nordloh Duke University Press 2008 American Literary Scholarship 2006 American Literary Scholarship An Annual 2006 Edited by David J. Nordloh Essays by David M. Robinson, Andrew M. Smith, Elizabeth J. Wright, Dennis Berthold, William Pannapacker, Paul Crumbley, Alan...

...David J. Nordloh 2006 American Literary Scholarship 2004 American Literary Scholarship An Annual 2004 Edited by David J. Nordloh Essays by David M. Robinson, Thomas R. Mitchell, Dennis Berthold, M. Jimmie Killingsworth, Alan Gribben, Sarah B. Daugherty, Carol J. Singley, Ann...

...David J. Nordloh Duke University Press 2010 Foreword This 46th annual volume in a series stretching back to AmLS 1963, published in 1965, is also the 12th volume I have edited. I was about to congratulate myself on my stamina, but then reality and admiration set in. Both...