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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature
Date: 19860101
Author:James D. Hart
Center for Editions of American Authors,
organized by the Modern Language Association (1963) to promote textual and bibliographical study and to oversee the creation of approved texts for definitive editions of classic American authors, including Cooper, Stephen Crane, John Dewey, Emerson, Hawthorne, Howells, Irving, Melville, Simms, Thoreau, Mark Twain, and Whitman. Its publication program was later directly overseen by the National Endowment for the Humanities.Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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