...Gary Scharnhorst © 2001 Duke University Press 2001 Foreword The 37th annual edition of American Literary Scholarship, like each of its predecessors, proves that the discipline of American literary study re- mains a vital part of the intellectual life of the university and the nation...

... 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...

...Gary Scharnhorst Duke University Press 2005 Foreword This 41st annual edition of American Literary Scholarship may be the longest to be published in the series. Despite the prognostications of doom and the demonstrable crisis in academic book publishing, Ameri- can literary study...

...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...

...Gary Scharnhorst Duke University Press 2003 Foreword I have been privileged to edit AmLS in alternating years for the past 10 years, and I marvel how the task has changed in such a brief time. With the advent of the Internet and on-line databases and particularly email, I may now...

...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...

... Academy) succeeds Frances Dickey on “Eliot”; Deborah Clarke (Arizona State University) succeeds Peter Lurie on “Faulkner”; Theresa Strouth Gaul (Texas Christian University) succeeds Ed White on “Literature to 1800”; Jeff Westover (Boise State University) revives “Poetry: 1900 to the 1950s”; Jim...

...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 © 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 © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 Foreword With this volume American Literary Scholarship celebrates, quietly and without loud incendiary devices, its 50th anniversary. Over the ever- lengthening period of my coeditorship of the series I’ve been fortunate to also...

...David J. Nordloh Copyright © 2022 Duke University Press 2022 Foreword This volume of American Literary Scholarship, the 58th in a series that began in 1965, is also its last. I make this announcement with great and painful regret that a publication with such a long history as a basic resource...

...David J. Nordloh © 2000 Duke University Press 2000 Foreword Introducing this series in its first volume, covering 1963, James Woodress identified the idea for American Literary Scholarship with being over- whelmed on his return from a year in Europe by the quantity of scholarship produced...

... Beppu, Bo G. Ekelund, Lene Johannessen, Henrik Lassen, Elżbieta H. Oleksy, and Zoltán Abádi-Nagy Duke University Press  Durham and London  2006 © 2006 Duke University Press All rights reserved LC 65-19450  ISSN 0065-9142 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper...

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...Gary Scharnhorst © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 Foreword This is the tenth volume of American Literary Scholarship I’ve edited since 1995. In many ways the task has become easier over time thanks to the extraordinary dedication of the contributors and the development of new...

...Gary Scharnhorst Duke University Press 2011 Foreword In Memory of Michael Kiskis Teacher, Scholar, and Friend In addition to its many other human consequences, the Great Recession has affected American literary studies. For budgetary reasons, American Transcendental Quarterly...

...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...

... Duke University Press 2009 American Literary Scholarship 2007 American Literary Scholarship An Annual 2007 Edited by Gary Scharnhorst Essays by David M. Robinson, Andrew M. Smith, Elizabeth J. Wright, Dennis Berthold, William Pannapacker, Paul Crumbley, Alan Gribben, Sarah B...

...Gary Scharnhorst Duke University Press 2009 American Literary Scholarship 2007 American Literary Scholarship An Annual 2007 Edited by Gary Scharnhorst Essays by David M. Robinson, Andrew M. Smith, Elizabeth J. Wright, Dennis Berthold, William Pannapacker, Paul Crumbley, Alan...

... 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 Gribben, Carol J...