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Encyclopedia of American Literature. New York: Facts On File, 2002. 3 vols. acid free $225 (ISBN 0-8160-4121-0).
This well-written, fact-filled, well-conceptualized, informative three-volume set covers American literature writers, playwrights, poets, novelists, short fiction writers, magazine and periodical titles, concepts, and movements. The sets are: (1) The Colonial and Revolutionary Era, 1607-1814 (edited by Carol Berkin); (2) The Age of Romanticism and Realism, 1815-1914 (edited by Lisa Paddock); and (3) The Modern and Post-Modern Period, from 1915 (edited by Carl Rollyson). Some sample entries other than authors, titles, and characters are the San Francisco Renaissance, Off-Broadway,...