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Turn to this authoritative international resource for complete critical coverage of the careers and works of the greatest writers and thinkers of the late Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Restorat
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For students, general readers, teachers, and researchers, Serafin (Hunter College of the City U. of New York) and Mihailovich (U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) present profiles of 60 of the most p
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This volume of the Dictionary of Literary Biography focuses on British literary humorists of the 20th century: novelists, short story, poets, essayists, journalists, and, to a lesser extent, scenario
Edited by Bosco (State U. of New York at Albany) and Myerson (U. of South Carolina), this volume of the Dictionary of Literary Biography, which is focused on American essayist, philosopher, poet, and
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This volume in the Dictionary of Literary Biography series is devoted to Herman Melville's Moby Dick and traces the development of the author's canon, writing, and reputation. It contains a biographic
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From Chris Abani to Benjamin Zephaniah, this volume of the Dictionary of Literary Biography profiles 42 "Black British" writers ("Black British" being a term from the late 1970s and early 1980s that s
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From "Acid Rain" to the "Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute," this two- volume reference contains some 200 alphabetical entries intended to provide high school and early college-age students with unde
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The 2d ed. of this major resource contains substantial additions, notably eight lengthy articles on major topics by prominent scholars, the addition of 568 new entries, and revision of many of the ear
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Project editors Anne Marie Hacht and Dwayne D. Hayes present a two-volume encyclopedia intended to provide readers with a sense of how historical forces and influences mold governments of the past and
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