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American Literature Links

Nineteenth Century
Modernism to Contemporary

American Literature on the Web. A collection of links to sites on the Internet especially dealing with American literature and its social, cultural contexts. It includes homepages and documents on over 300 authors and electronic texts of their works.

Keele U. American Literature Page. Includes pages devoted to eighteenth and nineteenth century American, twentieth century American, and African American electronic texts and resources.

American Studies Electronic Crossroads. Comprehensive central location for links to American studies resources generally, which focuses on cultural studies and history but includes literature also. Includes directors of organizations, communities, and professional groups; American studies approaches and curricula; and reference and research.

Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color. Biographical and bibliographical information on women writers of color from the US and Canada. Maintained by students and faculty of English and American Studies at the University of Minnesota, it is indexed by name, birthplace, racial/ethnic background, and significant dates.

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Nineteenth Century

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century. Prepared by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture the collection contains essays, poetry, fiction, and autobiographical narratives.

Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19th-Century America. Primary source material "documenting the cultural history of the American South from the viewpoint of Southerners. It offers diaries, autobiographies, travel accounts, titles on slavery and regional litterature.

Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive. Maintained at the College of William and Mary, offering links to all types of information about Whitman, including images, documents, writings, bibliographies, and more.

Emily Dickinson Electronic Archives. Includes archives of Dickinson’s writings; responses to her writings by various people; and difficult to find critical texts.

Wright American Fiction (1851-1875). Attempts to include every novel published in the United States from 1851 to 1875. It includes works by well known writers such as Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville, along with a great many forgotten authors. Courtesy of Indiana University.

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Modernism to Contemporary

The Modernist Journals Project. Includes searchable text of modernist journals; related art images; and various resources for scholars and students.

William Faulkner Page. Best site for all things Faulkner, including various kinds of information on his fictional Yoknapatawpha County.

Modern American Poetry. As a multimedia companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2000), this site lists resources on the some 160 authors included in the anthology. A good basic reference source for modern American poetry.

Academy of American Poets. Good resource for finding recent poetry or poets. Includes a “listening booth” to hear poems read aloud by authors.

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