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The social advances of the era included the growth of the middle class the universalization of public education and an increase in leisure time During this period when the novel was beginning to emerge as the dominant genre there was still a sizable and literate audience concerned with the poets of the daythe poets who are covered in this DLB volume Victorian literature and especially the poetry is a personal social and moral engagement It is often cast in the imagery of struggle or battle which is characterized by dialogue conflict and uncertainty about the human condition 43 entries include Matthew Arnold Emily Bronte Elizabeth Barrett Browning Robert Browning Arthur Hugh Clough Fanny Kemble Gerald Massey William Bell Scott Sir Henry Taylor Alfred Tennyson Frederick Tennyson and Isaac Williams
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In AfricanAmerican literary history one of the most striking phenomena has been the tremendous outpouring of poetry since the mid1950s Since the first successful boycotts of the Civil Rights movement young black writers were in the forefront of political activism and social commitment Poetry became the genre that could immediately connect the familiar oral tradition including spirituals and sermons of the black church with both the dynamic sociopolitical activity of the day and the written literary heritage of blacks The new AfricanAmerican poets more than 50 are profiled in this DLB volumearoused feelings of nationalism in black people throughout the United States encouraging viewpoints of black pride and Black is beautiful The entries include Samuel W Allen Jayne Cortez Margaret Esse Danner Nikki Giovanni Etheridge Knight Haki R Madhubuti May Miller Sonia Sanchez Gil ScottHeron and Tom Weatherly For research as well as neighborhood libraries it is a must and it is recommended to those college community college and secondary school libraries collecting the DLB
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Trade publishers are those who publish books to be sold in bookstores both hardcover volumes and higher priced quality paperbacks Mass market publishers produce inexpensive paperbacks to be sold in such nontraditional outlets as newsstands and supermarkets as well as in bookstores Peter Dzwonkoski writes in this DLB volumes foreword that beginning with the formation of Pocket Books in 1939 America has witnessed the phenomenon known as the Paperback Revolution which has made literature available to more readers than ever before Volume 46 of DLB tracks the growth and development of trade publishing from the early decades of the 20th century through to the present 200 entries include Atheneum Publishers The Atlantic Monthly Press CityLights Books Dramatists Play Service Farrar Straus and Giroux Grove Press Alfred A Knopf McGrawHill WW Norton and Company Sheed and Ward Simon and Schuster UptonSinclair TimeLife Books Vanguard Press and The Viking Press
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The years 1850 to 1880 witnessed intense social and political strain and profound cultural changes in the United States The population boomed with Irish and German immigrants and manufacturings displacement of agriculture as the dominant source of economy made New York and Boston urban economic centers The majority of literary theorists and critics were living in New England and New York attracted by the publishing industry Several different schools of criticism were beginning to develop during this period including impressionism aestheticism critical idealism critical realism and scholarly historicism all are represented in DLB Volume 64 Regardless of their particular styles critics of this period all tended to agree that literature should be judged at least partly on how it served the greater national purpose and on its truthfulness in representing the moral natures of human beings as John W Rathbun and Monica M Grecu note in the volumes foreword35 entries include Francis James Child Samuel Langhorne Clemens Evert Augustus Duyckinck William J Grayson Bret Harte William Dean Howells Sidney Lanier Cornelius Mathews Charles Eliot Norton Moses Coit Tyler and Walt Whitman
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The 18 playwrights included in this volume born between 1621 and 1666 coped with situations no dramatists before or since have faced During this period theaters were seen as places of corruption and were officially closed in 1642 When they began to reopen in 1660 there were few trained performers and no established audiences Nevertheless the dramatists of this tumultuous time produced some of the bestand strangestplays in English literature 18 entries include John Bank George Etherege Nathaniel Lee Mary Pix Thomas Southerne Sir John Vanbrugh William Wycherley
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The transition between early and late Victorian poetry has been determined in this volume to be 1850 A case can be made for this choice as the year saw among other significant events the death of the romantic poet laureate Wordsworth and the publication of his Prelude the appointment of Tennyson as the Victorian poet laureate and the publication of his In Memoriam It was unquestionably a time of change but the innovations in form departures in theme and originality of subject matter expressed by Victorian poetry after 1850 marked not so much a break from its antecedents as an extension of the form quality and imagination that the preceding generation of Victorian poets initiated This volume contains two appendices that deal with topics related to poetry of the late Victorian era 41 entries include William Allingham Alfred Austin T E Brown Robert Buchanan C S Calverley Edward Dowden Gerard Manley Hopkins Jean Ingelow George Meredith John Payne DanteGabriel Rossetti James Thomson Augusta Webster and Thomas Woolner
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National Socialist rule World War II and the postwar years figure prominently in the works of German writers who established their literary reputations between the mid1950s and mid1970s A desire to tell the truth to come to terms with Germanys guilt and to prevent the recurrence of a fascist dictatorship are also reflected in most of their works German literature of this period is highly politicized displaying a predominantly leftist orientation Several of the West German writers including Gunter Grass Gunter Herburger Uwe Johnson Reinhard Lettau and Martin Walser were members of Gruppe 47 a loose organization of authors that emphasized the political responsibility of the writer The works of East German writers who are profiled in this DLB volume reflect the clash between artistic freedom and the restrictions of social and political reality in a divided Germany 39 entries include Jurek Becker Volker Braun Michael Ende Gunter Grass Uwe Johnson Sarah Kirsch Siegfried Lenz Brigitte Reimann Martin Walser Christa Wolf and Wolf Wondratschek
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Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography covers only the American authors most frequently studied in high school and college literature courses It extracts and fully updates essays in their entirety from the much larger Dictionary of Literary Biography series The 6vol set begins each entry with a helpful chart that instantly shows the important places influences and relationships literary movements major themes cultural and artistic influences and social and economic influences that most affected the featured authors work The set is organized chronologically Each volume is devoted to a single historical period covering 3040 representative writers from all genres They include Colonization to the American Renaissance 16401865 Realism Naturalism and Local Color 18651917 The Twenties 19171929 The Age of Maturity 19291941 The New Consciousness 19411968 Broadening Views 19681988 The Supplement to the 6vol set Modern American Writers provides additional information on 20thcentury authors featured in the original volumes
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In AfricanAmerican literary history one of the most striking phenomena has been the tremendous outpouring of poetry since the mid1950s Since the first successful boycotts of the Civil Rights movement young black writers were in the forefront of political activism and social commitment Poetry became the genre that could immediately connect the familiar oral tradition including spirituals and sermons of the black church with both the dynamic sociopolitical activity of the day and the written literary heritage of blacks The new AfricanAmerican poets more than 50 are profiled in this DLB volumearoused feelings of nationalism in black people throughout the United States encouraging viewpoints of black pride and Black is beautiful The entries include Samuel W Allen Jayne Cortez Margaret Esse Danner Nikki Giovanni Etheridge Knight Haki R Madhubuti May Miller Sonia Sanchez Gil ScottHeron and Tom Weatherly For research as well as neighborhood libraries it is a must and it is recommended to those college community college and secondary school libraries collecting the DLB
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Among the AfricanAmerican authors featured in this volume are James Madison Bell Charles Chestnutt Frederick Douglass WEB Du Bois Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson and Harriet E Adams Wilson
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History is both a branch of literature and a scholarly discipline and American historical writing has produced a number of memorable works as well as a sizeable body of literature The historians selected for this volume include academic professional and popular historians along with several journalists a political publicist a poet and a railroad executive They represent most of the various schools of American historical study that have emerged during the 20th century including the New Englanders of Federalist and patrician heritage who dominated the early part of the century the frontieroriented progressives of the Middle West the liberal writers whose themes were prevalent after World War I and the conservative writers who provided a strong subtle counterpoint 59 entries include James Truslow Adams Charles A Beard Samuel Flagg Bemis Albert J Beveridge Bruce Catton Henry Steele Commager William E Dodd Shelby Foote Douglas Southall Freeman Richard Hofstadter Samuel Eliot Morison Allan Nevins Carl Sandburg Arthur M Schlesinger Jr Frederick Jackson Turner and C Vann Woodward
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