AMERICAN LITERATURE   

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General Resources
17th and 18th Century
19th Century
20th and 21st Century
African-American Literature
Native American Literature
E-texts
Links

General Resources

Outline of American Literature
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/LIT/index.htm

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide - a good starting place, well-organized
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/TABLE.HTML

The Humbul Gateway , International Resources for the Humanities
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~humbul/index.html

Modern Fiction Studies - online scholarly journal  
http://www.sla.purdue.edu/academic/engl/mfs/

Library of American Authors on the Web
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/AmeLit.html

American Literature I Index: From Earliest Times to 1865 - combination of articles and links
http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/amerlit1.htm

American Literature 2 Index: From 1865 to the Present - articles on authors with links
http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/amerlit2.htm

American Drama - journal with some of its articles online, dealing with American dramatic literature from all eras and genres
http://blues.fd1.uc.edu/www/amdrama/

American Literature on Line, compilation of sites
http://www.missouri.edu/~engmo/amlit.html

American Studies Web - with links to literary criticism
http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/asw/lit.html#litcrit

American Verse Project - out of the University of Michigan, covers American poetry to 1920
http://www.hti.umich.edu/english/amverse/

Booklist - online version of the American Library Association publication. Book reviews categorizes them by "What's New," youth, adult, audiovisual stuff, reference materials, articles, and bibliographies. 
http://www.ala.org/booklist/index.html

Vintage Books Reading Group Guides
http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/read/

17th and 18th Century

Colonial Literature - writings, biography, links, well-organized
http://www.kirtland.cc.mi.us/honors/amlit/newamlit2.htm

The Literature of Exploration and the Colonial Period - be sure to use the authors list for information on minor and major authors of the period
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/LIT/index.htm

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature: Early American Literature to 1700
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap1/chap1_index.html

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature: Early American Literature 1700 - 1800
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap2/chap2.html

Romantic Literature - writings, biography, links, well-organized
http://www.kirtland.cc.mi.us/honors/amlit/newamlit2.htm

The Romantic Period - click on essayists and poets and on fiction for information, essays, and texts, very well organized.  Be sure to click on authors for information on major and minor authors of the period.
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/LIT/index.htm

19th Century

19th Century United States Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies Online - good page, primarily strong in links with some maps and e-texts as well
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~amerstu/19th/19th.html

Domestic Goddesses, aka scribbling women: Women writers of the Victorian era
http://www.womenwriters.net/domesticgoddess/

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature: Early Nineteenth Century - Romanticism
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap3/CHAP3.HTML

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature: Early Nineteenth Century: American Transcendentalism
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap4/CHAP4.HTML

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature: Late Nineteenth Century and Realism
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap5/CHAP5.HTML

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature: Late Nineteenth Century: 1890-1910, American Naturalism
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap6/CHAP6.HTML

The Rise of Realism - information, essays, and texts.  Be sure to click on authors at the bottom to see essays on major and minor authors of the period
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/LIT/index.htm

20th and 21st Century

Literary Kicks: The Beat Generation - short article with links to further descriptions and discussions
http://www.charm.net/~brooklyn/LitKicks.html

Modernism Timeline, 1890-1940
http://faculty.washington.edu/eckman/

Modernism and Experimentation - information, essays, and texts.  Be sure to click on Authors at the bottom to see essays on major and minor authors of the period.
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/LIT/index.htm

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature: Early Twentieth Century to 1945
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap7/CHAP7.HTML

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature: Late Twentieth Century
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap10/CHAP10.HTML

American Poetry Since 1945 - information, essays, and texts. Be sure to click on Authors at the bottom to see essays on major and minor poets of the period.
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/LIT/index.htm

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature: American Drama
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap8/CHAP8.HTML

African-American Literature

Brief Chronology of African-American Literature
http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/aframlit.htm

Harlem Renaissance Page - short page  
http://www.usc.edu/Library/Ref/Ethnic/harlem.html

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature: Harlem Renaissance, 1919-1937
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/CHAP9.HTML

Quarterly Black Review of Books, Guide to Black Classics
http://www.bookwire.com/qbr/canon.html

Library of Southern Literature - e-texts and information about Southern literature, particularly literature of African-Americans and slave-era literature
http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/southlit/southlit.html

Native American Literature

Indigenous People's Literature
http://www.indigenouspeople.org/natlit/natlit.htm

Native Tech: Native American Poetry and Stories - e-texts
http://www.nativeweb.org/NativeTech/poetry/

Stonee's Web Lodge - American Indian lore, legends, and links
http://www.ilhawaii.net/~stony/

E-Texts

American Literature Hypertexts - out of the University of Virginia, this site pulls from various e-text compilations on the web and places them in an attractive format to retrieve them with thumbnail pictures of the authors
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/hypertex.html

Alex - a catalog of books and other literary works on the Internet, and currently includes almost 1800 entries; site comes out of NCSU, has browse and search options  
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/staff/morgan/alex/alex-index.html

Bartleby Library
http://www.bartleby.com

Electronic Text Library - out of the University of Virginia; many texts limited to UVa users.  There are lots of texts available to all users, too.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/

Electronic Texts and Interactive Platforms in American Literature - out of Georgetown
http://www.georgetown.edu/tamlit/e-texts/e-texts.html#platforms

Online Books Page: Free online texts of over 2000 books.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/books.html

Literary Resources on the Net    
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/

Project Gutenburg - texts on line (FTP format therefore not attractive to read and somewhat difficult to access, but access is through UNC sunsite, where other resources like some NC appellate court opinions are also maintained)
http://promo.net/pg/

Links

Literary Resources on the Net
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/.

Literature Resources for the High School and College Student
http://www.teleport.com/~mgroves/

American Literature on Line, compilation of sites  
http://www.missouri.edu/~engmo/amlit.html

American Studies Web - links to literary criticism
http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/asw/lit.html#litcrit

Giacobazzi's American Literature Resources - well organized links page
http://www.kirtland.cc.mi.us/honors/amlit/newamlit.htm

This page was last updated on Friday, April 21, 2006.