Reference works in British and American literatureJames Bracken identifies and describes literary reference works devoted to individual authors published up to 1996, and some from 1997. Bracken includes about 170 British and American authors from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, plus an entry for “Mystery Plays.” The volume is arranged alphabetically by author, and the author entries are subdivided into “Bibliographies,” “Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Handbooks,” “Indexes and...
James Bracken identifies and describes literary reference works devoted to individual authors published up to 1996, and some from 1997. Bracken includes about 170 British and American authors from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, plus an entry for “Mystery Plays.” The volume is arranged alphabetically by author, and the author entries are subdivided into “Bibliographies,” “Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Handbooks,” “Indexes and Concordances,” and “Journals,” if publications are available, and each publication annotated with helpful descriptions about scope and value.