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American Literature Reference Guide

The reference print collection of the Commodore Library contains a large selection of materials related to American Literature.

Print Reference Works

Library of America - The collected works of America's foremost authors.(60 vols.)- REF 810 LIB

Norton Anthology of American Literature - REF 810.8 NOR

Norton Anthology of African American Literature - REF 810.8 NOR

Great American Writers 20th Century(13 vols.) - R 810.9 GRE

Oxford Companion to American Literature - REF 810.9 HAR

 

American Literature Sites

 

 

General Literature Sites

  • Guide to Special Collections (Columbia University).  This site contains links to archives and special collections (many searchable online) across the country.
  • Literary Criticism on the Web from the Internet Public Library.  This site features links to selected online criticism of major authors in American and British literature. Note: Links to Northernlight.com will not work.
  • Victorian Web. George Landow, one of the foremost authorities on literary hypertext, created this rich site. See also the many links at the Victoria Research Web, (New URL) a site associated with the VICTORIA discussion list.
  • Voice of the Shuttle. One of the first such sites on the Web, Alan Liu's comprehensive site covers literary theory as well as various periods of literature. The appearance of the site has recently been updated, and a search feature has been added.
  • Modernist Journals Project at Brown University includes .pdf image files of The New Age(1907-1922) and Cine-Tracts(1977-1982).
  • Museum of American Poetics. This site focuses primarily on modern poetry and includes links to poetry sites as well as RealVideo presentations by and about contemporary authors.
  • Modern American PoetryThis companion site to Anthology of Modern American Poetry, edited by Cary Nelson, includes biographies, links, and excerpts from literary criticism on the poets.
  • FindArticles.com provides free access to a limited selection of peer-reviewed journals. With the restructuring of Northernlight.com as a business-oriented site that is no longer useful for literary criticism, this is the principal site for those without access to Project Muse and other university-based subscription services.
  • Literary History. This easy-to-navigate site maintains a collection of annotated links on 19th-century British and 20th century British and American writers.
  • Literary Encyclopedia. This free resource includes biographical essays written by literature scholars; it also has a feature that permits visitors to create a timeline.

 

Books Online

 

Nineteenth-Century Periodicals and Primary Sources

  • Making of America: American Social History Documents at the University of Michigan.  This site also contains links to nineteenth-century periodicals such as Appleton's, The Southern Literary Messenger, and The Overland Monthly. Note: Files at this site are graphics files rather than text or HTML.
  • Cornell University's Making of America site is an extensive, searchable collection of major periodicals of the nineteenth century. The full collection lists 114 books and 24 periodicals, including Harper's, The Atlantic, Scribner's, and many other important journals. Files are now available in several formats: page images, .pdf (Adobe Acrobat), and uncorrected plain text.
  • The FictionMags index provides tables of contents for popular periodicals of the twentieth century such as The Saturday Evening Post; it is cross-indexed by author and periodical. Although it focuses on genre fiction (science fiction and mysteries, primarily), it provides useful information on other types as well.
  • Godey's Lady's Book. Selected issues of an important nineteenth-century periodical; includes illustrations.
  • Internet Library of Early Journals.This site at Oxford includes a search feature and online versions of important British periodicals including Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Gentleman's Magazine, Notes and Queries, and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
  • The Freedmen and Southern Society Project at the University of Maryland contains online versions of primary sources such as proclamations, letters from slaves, court testimony, and other documents from the National Archives as well as essays on the period 1861-1867.
  • HarpWeek. Although most of this collection of Harper's Weekly magazines is not available to anyone but institutional subscribers, it does contain a few free sites, including the following: Immigrant and Ethnic America, The American West, Black America: 1857-1874, The World of Thomas Nast, and American Political Prints.
  • The Research Society for American Periodicals (RSAP) maintains an excellent collection of links for study in the field.

 

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