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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms by Chris Baldick
ISBN: 0198117337
Publication Date: 1990-09-20
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms provides succinct and often witty explanations of over one thousand terms, covering everything from the ancient dithyramb to the contemporary dub poetry,the clearest coverage available of the newly coined terms of important contemporary theories. Also includes extensive coverage of traditional drama, versification, rhetoric, and literary history, of literary schools from Alexandrianism to Transcendentalism, and of terms from languages other than English.

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Provides clear, concise, and often witty definitions of the most troublesome literary terms from abjection to zeugma.
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Slavery in the United States: A Social, Political, and Historical Encyclopedia This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive, contextual presentation of all aspects?social, political, and economic?of slavery in the United States, from the first colonization through Reconstruction.
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Examines every effort to end slavery in the United States and the transatlantic world. It focuses on massive, broad-based movements, as well as specific incidents, events, and developments, and pulls together in one place information previously available only in a wide variety of sources.