Library of America

Literary/ Cultural Context Essay

Joseph Thomas (Albright College)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Domains

Organisations and institutions (arts& culture)

Dates

Date of occurrence 1982

Places

United States (Location)

Resources

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The Library of America is the publishing imprint of Literary Classics of the United States, a not-for-profit publishing project based in New York City and initially funded in 1979 by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ford Foundation. The project’s goal is to make textually reliable editions of important American writing available in a uniform series of quality books, not only by publishing them but by keeping them permanently in print. Its first volumes appeared in 1982; as of 2002, the Library had sold 5 million copies of over 130 volumes representing the wide range of discourse which has appeared in the United States since the seventeenth century – poetry, fiction, nature writing, philosophy, slave narratives, sermons, essays, historiography, war journalism, and…

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Citation: Thomas, Joseph. "Library of America". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 25 October 2002 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=1250, accessed 24 April 2024.]

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