American Literature: The Twentieth Century

This chapter has eight sections: 1. Poetry; 2. Fiction 1900–1945; 3. Fiction since 1945; 4. Drama; 5. Comics; 6. African American Writing; 7. Native Writing; 8. Latino/a, Asian American, and General Ethnic Writing. Section 1 is by James Gifford; section 2 is by James M. Clawson; section 3 is by Mary Foltz; section 4 will resume next year; section 5(a) is by Anna Peppard; section 5(b) is by Orion Ussner Kidder; section 6 is by Adam Rudder; section 7 is by James Gifford and Lindsay Parker; section 8 will resume next year.

New Literatures

This chapter has seven sections: 1. Africa; 2. Australia; 3. Canada; 4. The Caribbean; 5. South Asia: The Indian Subcontinent and Sri Lanka; 6. New Zealand and Pacific; 7. Southeast Asia. Section 1 is by Kanika Batra, Kerry Manzo, and Joya Uraizee; coverage of West Africa will resume in 2022; section 2 is by Benjamin Miller and Paul Sharrad; section 3 is by Christine Lorre-Johnston and Libe García Zarranz; section 4 is by Michael Niblett; section 5 will resume in 2022; section 6 is by Dougal McNeill; section 7 is by Cheryl Narumi Naruse.

Literature 1780–1830: The Romantic Period

This chapter has four sections: 1. General and Prose; 2. The Novel; 3. Poetry; 4. Drama. Section 1 is by Bysshe Inigo Coffey; section 2 is by Colette Davies and Ruby Hawley-Sibbett; section 3 is by Michael Falk and Shane Greentree; section 4 is by Miranda Kiek.

VIIShakespeare

This chapter has four sections: 1. Editions and Textual Studies; 2. Shakespeare in the Theatre; 3. Shakespeare on Screen; 4. Criticism. Section 1 is by Edward B.M. Rendall; section 2 is by Peter J. Smith; section 3 is by Elinor Parsons; section 4(a) is by Elisabetta Tarantino; section 4(b) is by Emanuel Stelzer; section 4(c) is by Shirley Bell; section 4(d) is by Ben Haworth; section 4(e) is by Vanessa Lim; section 4(f) is by Sheilagh Ilona O'Brien; section 4(g) is by Kate Wilkinson.

The Victorian Period

This chapter has five sections: 1. General and Prose, including Dickens; 2. The Novel; 3. Poetry; 4. Periodicals, Publishing History, and Drama; 5. Miscellaneous. Section 1 is by Ana Alicia Garza; section 2 is by Lois Burke; section 3 is by Sally Blackburn-Daniels; sections 4 and 5 are by William Baker. In somewhat of a departure from previous accounts, this chapter concludes with a mixed-genre section that covers Samuel Butler Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot and George Henry Lewes, George Gissing, Richard Jefferies, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Anthony Trollope. This is followed by a section containing additional materials that came too late to be included elsewhere. These sections have been contributed by William Baker, who thanks for their assistance Dominic Edwards, Olaf Berwald, Beth Palmer, Sophie Ratcliffe, and Caroline Radcliffe.

XVIIIBibliography, Textual Criticism, and Reference Works

Owing to Covid-19 and its impact on the supplies of review copies to reviewers, this chapter covering 2019 publications is longer than usual. Thanks are due to Professor Brent E. Kinser, James May, Albert Pionke, Patrick Scott, Shef Rogers, and to our Associate Editors for letting me know what their contributors have been unable to include. It is divided into five sections, and contents may overlap: 1. Periodicals; 2. Editions; 3. Bibliography and Associated Books and Articles; 4. History and Companions; 5. Shakespeare, History of Libraries, Collections, and Miscellaneous including Reference Materials

American Literature to 1900

This chapter has two sections: 1. Journals; 2. Monographs and Edited Collections. Section 1 is by Katie McGettigan; section 2 is by Katie McGettigan and Rebecca White.