Bibliographical guide to the study of the literature of the U.S.A

by Clarence Louis Frank Gohdes

The Bibliographical Guide continues to be the most useful handbook now available to scholars for research in American literature. This fifth revised edition features updating and considerable but highly selective expansion as well as a new section on women's studies. The volume includes over 100 new editions and more than 750 additional studies and reference works for a total of approximately 1,900 reference items, all annotated with the exception of a few with explanatory subtitles.This new edition addresses several interdisciplinary studies that have become prominent in the last decade, notably in the expanded sections on popular culture, racial and other minorities, Native Americans and Chicanos, and literary regionalism. More space has been allotted to computer aids, science fiction, children's literature, literature of the sea, and film and literature. In response to the greater attention given to the relationship of psychology and psychoanalytic techniques to literary study, psychology has been allocated a section of its own. In addition, the section on American language has been given more space to accommodate advances in linguistic studies of American English.The organization of items in the chapters has been simplified for easier reference, and an appendix listing the major biography of each of 135 deceased American authors is included.

134 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1970