Strategies and Sources
The text is clearly written, terms are carefully defined, and library jargon is avoided. Moreover, it is well cited and is in itself a well-crafted piece of scholarship on this period in literature. I highly recommend this volume to anyone interested in researching, or assisting researchers of, the American Realism and Naturalism period. * Zentralblatt fr Geologie und Palontologie, September 2009 *
Linda L. Stein is associate librarian in the Reference Department of the University of Delaware Library. Peter J. Lehu is reference librarian at the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia.