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The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature.(Reference Books)(Book review)
The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. Ed. by David Scott Kastan. New York: Oxford Univ. Pr., 2006. 5 vols. acid free $595 (ISBN 0-19-516921-2).
The best reference books fulfill a unique and necessary purpose, giving good value for the dollar. Margaret Drabble's The Oxford Companion to English Literature (Oxford Univ. Pr., 2000) is a companionable, comprehensive, and inexpensive single volume. Ian Scott-Kilvert's British Writers (Scribner, 1984) is magisterial, exploring the traditional and evolving literary canon in lengthy essays on individual authors. Although expensive, the work effectively manages the subject in a core set of volumes with supplements. The …
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