Home›Sources›Encyclopaedia BritannicaSourceEncyclopaedia BritannicaEncyclopaedia BritannicaReference and ClassificationVerifiedA general reference encyclopedia in continuous publication since 1768, used here for author biography, dating and movement chronology where a specialist literary reference is silent or where a second reference confirms a contested date.FactsSourcesClaims Backed By This Source (766 claims)Take a Related QuizComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsPublisherWell-attestedEncyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.URLWell-attestedhttps://www.britannica.comSource TypeWell-attestedreferenceReliability TierWell-attested1SourcesEncyclopaedia Britannicatier 1Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.View the SourceClaims Backed By This Source (766 claims)This source backs 766 claims across the atlas. As facts: 489 well-attested, 15 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 51 holds, 62 connected. Plus 149 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicArticles, 243 claims: 169 well-attested, 2 holds, 72 general references.Authors, 163 claims: 121 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 14 holds, 9 connected, 18 general references.Forms, 128 claims: 70 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 2 holds, 37 connected, 18 general references.Works, 115 claims: 63 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 28 holds, 8 connected, 15 general references.Genres, 47 claims: 27 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate, 4 holds, 1 connected, 13 general references.Movements, 36 claims: 13 well-attested, 10 scholarly debate, 1 holds, 3 connected, 9 general references.Open Questions, 29 claims: 21 well-attested, 4 connected, 4 general references.Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.Well-attested489ArticlesA Collection BannedA Danger Survived Is Not a TragedyA Fable Collection's Long JourneyA Field With Many FlagsA Form Older Than Its Own TheoryA Life Told BackwardsA Magazine That Named a MovementA Novel Burned by Its Own SubjectsA Novel with Two OrdersA Novel Written on Toilet PaperA Pun That Named a GenreA Story with No EndingA Thousand and One Nights of Buying TimeAn Arabian Form's World JourneyBoccaccio's Stanza for Epic PoetryDecolonizing the MindDon Quixote's SatireFifty-Two Adventures of a Con ManFive Books for a PrinceFrom Columbia to City LightsFrom Satire to Domestic PlotFrom the Nile to FlorenceHow a Poet's Arrest Ended a Golden AgeHow Comedy Split Off Its Own PoemMayor and PoetMexico as SubjectNaked Lunch on TrialNaming a GenerationNovelist and CandidatePoet Turned PresidentRhyme Without MeterShakespeare's Happy EndingsTales That Were Never ArabicThe Book That Brought a FatwaThe Cut-Up MethodThe Decade the World Discovered Latin American FictionThe First BookThe Matter of BritainThe Moral at the End Is OptionalThe Name He ChoseThe Novel Scott Was Ashamed to SignThe Novel the Censors Would Not PrintThe Rogue With No AuthorThe ScrollThe Serious Form That Learned to JokeThe Six Gallery ReadingThe Theory Behind the Single SittingThe Trial That Cleared HowlThe Word He CoinedThe Word Is Older Than the GenreShowing 1 to 50 of 134 entities carrying this claim.123Next →Scholarly debate15AuthorsMurasaki ShikibuFormsThe LimerickGenresHistorical FictionScience FictionMovementsConfessional PoetryExistentialismMagical RealismNaturalismPostmodernismSymbolismThe Harlem RenaissanceWorksThe Tale of GenjiHolds51ArticlesA Form Older Than Its Own TheoryThe Theory Behind the Single SittingAuthorsBronson AlcottEdgar Allan PoeHenry David ThoreauMargaret FullerRalph Waldo EmersonSamuel Taylor ColeridgeThomas CarlyleToni MorrisonWilliam WordsworthFormsOttava RimaRengaGenresTragicomedyUtopian and Dystopian FictionMovementsExistentialismWorksAn Address Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, CambridgeBelovedBiographia LiterariaEssays: First SeriesEssays: Second SeriesFrankenstein; or, The Modern PrometheusKubla KhanLyrical BalladsNatureNauseaNo ExitOn Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in HistoryRepresentative MenSartor ResartusSelf-RelianceThe American ScholarThe Castle of OtrantoThe Conduct of LifeThe Murders in the Rue MorgueThe Myth of SisyphusThe PlagueThe Rime of the Ancient MarinerThe StrangerWilhelm Meister's ApprenticeshipConnected62AuthorsChinua AchebeEdgar Allan PoeHenry Howard, Earl of SurreyHorace WalpoleJohann Wolfgang von GoetheMary ShelleyMiguel de CervantesSir Thomas WyattThomas CarlyleFormsBylinyCi (Chinese Lyric Meter)Fu (Chinese Rhapsody)GasaHyanggaLuc BatOttava RimaQu (Chinese Verse Drama Form)Shi (Chinese Classical Poetry)The CorridoThe Epistolary FormThe EssayThe Griot EpicThe LimerickThe ParableThe Praise PoemThe SagaWaiataGenresGothic FictionMovementsNaturalismPostmodernismSymbolismOpen QuestionsDid magical realism originate in European art criticism or as a distinctly Latin American literary mode?Has Postmodernism, as a literary period, ended?What actually killed Edgar Allan Poe?Where did the limerick form actually originate?WorksDon QuixoteFrankenstein; or, The Modern PrometheusThe Castle of OtrantoThe MandarinsThe Murders in the Rue MorgueThe Second SexThings Fall ApartWilhelm Meister's ApprenticeshipGeneral References149ArticlesA Collection BannedA Danger Survived Is Not a TragedyA Fable Collection's Long JourneyA Field With Many FlagsA Form Older Than Its Own TheoryA Life Told BackwardsA Magazine That Named a MovementA Novel Burned by Its Own SubjectsA Novel with Two OrdersA Novel Written on Toilet PaperA Pun That Named a GenreA Story with No EndingA Thousand and One Nights of Buying TimeAn Arabian Form's World JourneyBoccaccio's Stanza for Epic PoetryDecolonizing the MindDon Quixote's SatireFifty-Two Adventures of a Con ManFive Books for a PrinceFrom Columbia to City LightsFrom Satire to Domestic PlotFrom the Nile to FlorenceHow a Poet's Arrest Ended a Golden AgeHow Comedy Split Off Its Own PoemMayor and PoetMexico as SubjectNaked Lunch on TrialNaming a GenerationNovelist and CandidatePoet Turned PresidentRhyme Without MeterShakespeare's Happy EndingsTales That Were Never ArabicThe Book That Brought a FatwaThe Cut-Up MethodThe Decade the World Discovered Latin American FictionThe First BookThe Matter of BritainThe Moral at the End Is OptionalThe Name He ChoseThe Novel Scott Was Ashamed to SignThe Novel the Censors Would Not PrintThe Rogue With No AuthorThe ScrollThe Serious Form That Learned to JokeThe Six Gallery ReadingThe Theory Behind the Single SittingThe Trial That Cleared HowlThe Word He CoinedThe Word Is Older Than the GenreShowing 1 to 50 of 133 entities carrying this claim.123Next →Take a Related QuizEmerson and the Concord CircleIncludes a question about Encyclopaedia Britannica.Comments (0)No comments yet. 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