Encyclopedia of Literature

1222 Pages·2007·9.63 MB·English

The Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Literature
Preface
The Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Literature is a reference book, with entries
arranged in A–Z format. To go directly to a particular entry, click on the link in the
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Table of contents
A
Aakjaer, Jeppe
Aarestrup, Carl Ludvig Emil
Aasen, Ivar Andreas
Abbey, Edward
Abbot, Robert Sengstacke
Abbotsford
Abbott, Jacob
Abbt, Thomas
à Beckett, Gilbert Abbott
Abe Kobo
Abercrombie, Lascelles
Abish, Walter
About, Edmond François Valentin
Abrahams, Peter
Abrams, Meyer (Howard)
Abse, Dannie
Abu-al-Ala al-Maarri
Abû Mâdî, Ilyâ
Abú Nuwás, Hasan ibn Háni
Academy, the
Accademia della Crusca
Acciaiuoli, Donato
Accius, Lucius
Accolti, Benedetto
Accolti, Bernardo
Accolti, Francesco
Achad Haam
Achebe, Chinua
Achilles Tatius
Acker, Kathy
Ackroyd, Peter
Acmeist movement
Acosta, José de
Actius, Lucius
Acuña, Cristóval de
Adagia
Adam, Juliette
Adam, Paul-Auguste-Marie
Adam de la Halle
Adamic, (Alojzij) Louis
Adams, Charles Follen
Adams, Douglas (Noël)
Adams, Henry Brooks
Adams, Richard (George)
adaptation (arts)
Adcock, (Kareen) Fleur
Addison, Joseph
Ade, George
Adeler, Max
Adler, Elmer
Adlington, William
Adolphus, John Leycester
Ady, Endre
Aelfric
Aeneid
Aeschylus
Aesop
African literature
Agate, James (Evershed)
Agnon, Shmuel Yosef
Ahlberg, Allan
Aidoo, Ama Ata
Aiken, Conrad Potter
Aiken, Joan (Delano)
Ailly, Pierre d'
Ainsworth, William Harrison
Aitmatov, Chingiz
Akhmatova, Anna
Akins, Zoe
Aksakov, Sergei Timofeyevich
Akutagawa, Ryunosuke
Alain-Fournier
Alamanni, Luigi
Alarcón, Juan Ruiz de
Alarcón, Pedro Antonio de
Alas, Leopoldo
Albee, Edward (Franklin)
Alberti, Rafael
Alcaeus
Alciati, Andrea
Alciphron
Alcman
Alcoforado, Marianna
Alcott, Louisa May
Aldington, Richard
Aldiss, Brian W(ilson)
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
Aleardi, Aleardo
Alecsandri, Vasile
Aleixandre, Vicente
Alemán, Mateo
Alexander, William
Alexandru, Ion
Alexis, Willibald
Alfadir
Alford, Henry
Alger, Horatio
Algren, Nelson Abraham
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alishan, Leon
allegory
Allen, (William) Hervey (Jr)
Allen, Frederick Lewis
Allen, Paula Gunn
Allende, Isabel
Allibone, Samuel Austin
Allingham, Margery Louise
Allingham, William
Almagest
Almeida-Garrett, João Baptista da Silva Leitão
Almqvist, Carl Jonas Love
Alonso, Dámaso
al-Rayhânî, Amîn
Alvaro, Corrado
Amado, Jorge
Amari, Michele
Ambler, Eric
Amerbach, Johannes
American Academy of Art and Letters
American literature
Amis, Kingsley (William)
Amis, Martin Louis
Ammianus Marcellinus
Ammons, A(rchie) R(andolph)
Amory, Thomas
Amyot, Jacques
Anacreon
'Ancient Mariner, The Rime of the'
Ancrene Riwle
Andersen, Hans Christian
Anderson, Sherwood
Andrade, Mario de
André, Bernard
Andrews, William Loring
Andreyev, Leonid Nicolaievich
Andric, Ivo
Andromache
Aneirin
Angeli, Pietro Angelo
Angelou, Maya
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Anglo-Saxon literature
Angry Young Men
Animal Farm
Anna Karenina
Anstey, F
anthology
Anthony, Michael
Antigone
antihero
Antin, Mary
antislavery literature
Antonius, Brother
Antony and Cleopatra
Aphthonius
Apion
Apollinaire, Guillaume
Apollonius of Rhodes
'Apollonius of Tyre'
Apollo poets
Apperley, Charles James
Applegate, Jesse
Apuleius, Lucius
Arabian Nights
Arabic literature
Aragon, Louis
Arany, János
Arason, Jón
Aratus
Arbuthnot, John
Archer, Jeffrey Howard
Archilochus
Ardizzone, Edward
Aretino, Pietro
Argens, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer
Argenson, Marc Antoine René de Voyer
Argentine literature
Arghezi, Tudor
Ari, Thorgilsson
Àrîda, Nasîb
Arion
Ariosto, Ludovico
Aristophanes
Aristophanes of Byzantium
Aristotle
Arlen, Michael
Armitage, Simon
Arndt, Ernst Moritz
Arnim, Bettina von
Arnim, Elizabeth Mary, Countess von Arnim
Arnim, Ludwig Achim von
Árni Magnússon
Arnold, Edwin
Arnold, Matthew
Arrianus, Flavius
Ars poetica
Arthur, Timothy Shay
Arundel Marbles
Asachi, Gheorghe
Asbjörnsen, Peter Christen
Asch, Sholem
Asclepiades
Ashbery, John Lawrence
Ashbridge, Elizabeth
Ashford, Daisy (Margaret Mary Julia)
Ashton, Winifred
Asimov, Isaac
Askew, Anthony
Asturias, Miguel Ángel
Athenaeus
Athenodorus Cordylion
Atherton, Gertrude Franklin
Atkinson, Katea
Atterbom, Per (Daniel Amadeus)
Attic orators
Attius, Lucius
Atwood, Margaret (Eleanor)
Aubanel, Théodore
Aubignac, François Hedelin, Abbé d'Aubignac
Aubigné, Théodore Agrippa d'
Aubrey, John
'Aucassin et Nicolette'
Auchincloss, Louis (Stanton)
Auden, W(ystan) H(ugh)
Aulnoy, Marie Catherine, Baronne d'Aulnoy
Aumonier, Stacy
Aurelius, Victor Sextus
Aurispa, Giovanni
Auroras of Autumn, The
Ausonius, Decimus Magnus
Austen, Jane
Auster, Paul
Austin, Alfred
Australian literature
autobiography
Avery, Samuel Putnam
Avianus
Avram, Henriett D (Davidson)
Avvakum, Archpriest
Awdry, W(ilbert) V(ere)
Ayenbite of Inwit
Ayer, Edward Everett
Ayme, Marcel
Azorín
B
Babbitt
Babel, Isaak Emmanuilovich
Babrius
Bacchelli, Riccardo
Bacchylides
Bacon, Delia Salter
Bacon, Robert
Baconian theory
Bacovia, George
Badius Ascensius, Jodocus
bad quartos
Baggesen, Jens Immanuel
Bagnold, Enid (Algerine)
Bagritsky, Eduard
Bahr, Hermann
Baïf, Jean Antoine de
Bailey, Philip James
Baillie, Grizel
Baillie, Joanna
Bainbridge, Beryl
Baker, Augusta Braxton
Baker, George Pierce
Baker, Nicholson
Baker, Ray Stannard
Balan
Balassi, Bálint
Baldwin, James Arthur
Baldwin, William
Bale, John
Balin and Balan
ballad (literature)
ballade
Ballantine, James
Ballantyne, R(obert) M(ichael)
Ballard, J(ames) G(raham)
Ballet Shoes
Balmont, Konstantin Dmitrievich
Balzac, Honoré de
Balzac, Jean Louis Guez de
Bancroft, Hubert Howe
Bandello, Matteo
Bang, Herman Joachim
Bangs, John Kendrick
Banim, John (1798–1842) and Michael (1796–1874)
Banks, Iain Menzies
Banks, Lynne Reid
Bannatyne Club
Banville, John
Banville, Théodore Faullain de
Baraka, (Imamu) Amiri
Barash, Asher
Barbaro, Ermolao (bishop of Verona)
Barbaro, Ermolao (patriarch of Aquileia)
Barbaro, Francesco
Barbauld, Anna Laetitia
Barbellion, W(ilhelm) N(ero) P(ilate)
Barbey d'Aurevilly, Jules-Amedée
Barbier, Henri-Auguste
Barbour, John
Barbu, Ion
Barbusse, Henri
Barclay, Alexander
Barclay, John
Baretti, Giuseppe
Barham, Richard Harris
Baring, Maurice
Baring-Gould, Sabine
Barker, Clive
Barker, George Granville
Barker, Pat(ricia Margaret)
'Barlaam and Josaphat'
Barlow, Joel
Barnes, Barnabe
Barnes, Djuna Chappell
Barnes, Julian (Patrick)
Barnes, William
Barnfield, Richard
Baroja, Pio
Barrès, (Auguste-)Maurice
Barrett Browning, Elizabeth
Barrington, Jonah
Barry, Sebastian
Barstow, Stan
Bartas, Guillaume de Saluste du
Barth, John Simmons
Barthelme, Donald
Barthes, Roland
Bartlett, John
Bartoli, Adolfo
Bartoli, Daniello
Barudi, Mahmud Sami al-
Bashkirtseff, Marie
Basho
Bassus Caesius
Bataille, Georges
Bataille, Henri
Bates, H(erbert) E(rnest)
Bates, Katherine Lee
Baudelaire, Charles Pierre
Baum, L(yman) Frank
Bawden, Nina Mary
Baxter, James Keir
Bay Psalm Book
Bazin, René-François-Nicolas-Marie
Beach, Moses Yale
Beach, Rex Ellingwood
Beach, Sylvia Woodbridge
Beadle, Erastus Flavel
Beat Generation
Beattie, James
'Beauty and the Beast'
Beauvoir, Simone de
Beccadelli, Antonio
Beccaria, Antonio
Becher, Johannes R
Beckford, William (Thomas)