Walt Whitman fully absorbed 19th-century cultural life, both reflecting and transfiguring it through his poetry and prose. This encyclopaedia gathers information on Whitman from a variety of sources, and presents more than 750 entries in an A-Z format. Over 200 contributions include short entries, and longer in-depth essays. An appendix of Whitman's ancestry and a chronology is also included.

"A model reference work that can be used with profit and delight by general readers as well as by more advanced students of Twain. Highly recommended." - Library Journal

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Mark Twain includes more than 700 alphabetically arranged entries that cover a full variety of topics on this major American writer's life, intellectual milieu, literary career, and achievements. Because so much of Twain's travel narratives, essays, letters, sketches, autobiography, journalism and fiction reflect his personal experience, particular attention...