''The Oxford Companion to American Literature'' by

James D. Hart James David Hart, (April 18, 1911 – 23 July 1990) was an American literary scholar and professor at University of California, Berkeley for fifty-four years. He is most notable for writing ''The Oxford Companion to American Literature'' and '' ...

is one of the

Oxford Companions ''Oxford Companions'' is a book series published by Oxford University Press, providing general knowledge within a specific area. The first book published in the series was ''The Oxford Companion to English Literature'' (1932), compiled by the ret ...

series published by the

Oxford University Press Oxford University Press (OUP) is the university press of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world, and its printing history dates back to the 1480s. Having been officially granted the legal right to print books ...

, Oxford and New York. ''The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature'', by James D. Hart (an abridged version of the 5th ed., 1983) was published in 1986. ;Editions * First, 1941 * Second, 1948 * Third, 1956 * Fourth, 1965 * Fifth, 1983 with revisions and additions by Phillip W. Leininger * Sixth, 12 October 1995, with revisions and additions by Phillip W. Leininger

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