EDITORIAL BOARD

Editor in Chief
David Scott Kastan, Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities and Chair of the Department of English and Comparative Literature,Columbia University

Senior Editors
Nancy Armstrong, Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of English and Comparative Literature,Brown University
Kevin J. H. Dettmar, Department of English,Southern Illinois University
Andrew D. Hadfield, Department of English,University of Sussex
Gail McMurray Gibson, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English and Humanities,Davidson College
Jennifer Wicke, Department of English,University of Virginia

RUSA Best Reference
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
Booklist Editor's Choice

"Entries are written by recognized experts and are authoritative accounts that reflect current scholarship....This comprehensive encyclopedia is an outstanding resource for scholarly information about British writers, works, and literary movements. Highly recommended.."-Philip Charles Crawford, March 2007 Library Media Connection, starred review

"The editor's decisions regarding writers and works for inclusion reflect an academic focus and a penchant for the esoteric.... The most valuable aspect of thenew Oxford offering may well be its substantive coverage of topics and themes related to British literature.... Highly recommended."--Booklist, Starred Review

"This massive work contains more than 500 alphabetically arranged, signed articles covering 1400 years of British literature.... A vast and valuable resource."--School Library Journal

"Occupies its own niche.... A worthy choice."--Against the Grain

"The editors of this five-volume encyclopedia chose a lofty aim: to provide readers with a history of British literature in English. They have surpassed that goal with this fine work.... This well-written encyclopedia, though scholarly, is readable enough for the general-interest researcher.... Recommended for public and academic libraries."--Library Journal