American Literature Sites
- Literary Resources on the Net. Jack Lynch maintains this excellent site at Rutgers; the entries are current, searchable, and annotated.
- Akahito Ishikawa's Site includes extensive links to American literature texts.
- American Authors on the Web. Mitsuharu Matsuoka (Manchester University) has arranged American authors by date of birth.
- American Studies Web at Georgetown University. Sponsored by the American Studies Association, this site includes links to many resources in literature and history; its SiteScene reviews are extensive and thorough.
- Crossroads: An American Literature Hypertext Site at the University of Virginia. Recently redesigned, this well-established site contains information about and texts by Henry Adams, Charles Brockden Brown, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Harriet Wilson, among others.
- American Studies Links. Richard Horwitz, Professor of American Studies at the University of Iowa, has compiled this very useful cross-disciplinary list of recommended links in an easy-to-use tabbed format.
- The Society of Early Americanists Home Page includes information about the Society as well as a syllabus archive, bibliographies, teaching resources, and a host of useful links, including several to repositories of primary documents.
- The Nineteenth-Century American
Women Writers Web. This major site features links from the journal Legacy,pictures
of American women writers, online texts, and other resources.
- Paul P.Reuben's Perspectives in American Literature Pages. This major site includes extensive bibliographies of American authors as well as study questions about their major works.
- Voices from the Gaps:
Women Writers of Color. This site includes biographical information and
bibliographies on contemporary writers, but some nineteenth-century subjects
are covered as well.
- Project Crow. This site by Michael O'Conner, Millikin University (of American Literature Online, a site no longer available) contains links to and reviews of American literature sites.
- Outline
of American Literature. A publication of the U.S. Department of State,
this online book by Kathryn VanSpanckeren provides descriptions of periods
in American literature.
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
Note: Because of copyright restrictions, only works published prior to 1923
and those made available by the copyright holder are available for free online.
Before you pay to read something published before 1923, such as the e-books
available at Amazon.com and other sites, check these sites for links to the
free versions of the texts. In most cases, the only pre-1923 books offered for
sale are those also offered without charge by Project Gutenberg or other sites.
- On-Line Books Page at the University of Pennsylvania. This searchable index includes books not located at the site as well.
- A Celebration of Women Writers. Mary Mark Ockerbloom's comprehensive site includes links to texts, pictures, and bibliographies for American women writers as well as authors from many other countries.
- Project Gutenberg. Project Gutenberg
has been putting texts online in plain text or zipped form for several years.
The site includes a searchable index. The
Project Gutenberg site now also has
an RSS feed (for Bloglines or other
rss feed readers) so that you can see what texts have been added.
- Project Bartleby Archive. This searchable archive of online texts at Columbia University includes reference books on American literature.
- Wright American Fiction,
1851-1875.This searchable site features works 1752 texts by 842 authors;
its object is to include every novel published from 1851-1875 in the United
States. Some familiar works are included, but many are rare or otherwise unobtainable
online.
- Documenting the American South: Beginnings
to 1920. This site at the University of North Carolina has many texts,
including Charles W. Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman.
- Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia. Although some texts at this major repository are restricted to local users, many are not.
- The University of Virginia E-Book Library. This section of the Electronic Text Center offers free Palm and MSReader versions of many of its classic texts.
- Perseus Project. Although this site's principal focus is ancient and Renaissance literature, the Perseus Project at Tufts University has a significant collection of California and Midwestern online texts.
- The American Verse Project at the University of Michigan. Includes works by lesser-known authors such as John Hay and Lydia Sigourney.
- The Internet Public Library Online Texts Collection. Links, information, and timelines about literature for librarians and students of literature.
- The Schomburg
Center for Research in Black Culture includes online versions of
texts by African American women writers.
- Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts. This site supports the searching of its texts for keywords and terms; also, its documents may be printed in .pdf format.
- MemoWare PDA Document Repository. This site has many classic works by Twain, Howells, Wharton, Crane, Melville, Alcott, Emerson, Thoreau, and a host of other authors available as free downloads for those who use various types of handheld computers (PalmPilots and so forth).
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.
Miscellaneous Resources
- The American Memory
Home Page at the Library of Congress. This popular site is rich in various
kinds of content; it includes exhibitions, photographs, movies,and soundfiles.
- Common-Place is an online journal
sponsored by the American Antiquarian Society; it features excellent articles
on American history and culture.
- National Endowment for the Humanities.
This site provides links to and information about what the NEH considers
to be the best literature sites on the web for K-12 educators and students,
including American literature sites.
- American
and British History Resources on the Internet. and American
Literature on the Net (Rutgers). These comprehensive sites at Rutgers
University are logically organized with hundreds of links.
- The Scout
Report.A well-respected weekly online publication from the University
of Wisconsin, the Scout Report selects and reviews sites of interest to researchers.
- Infomine. Developed by librarians
at the University of California at Riverside and other academic libraries,
this useful site includes "expert-selected and described links" in a variety
of disciplines.
- Web Museum at Ibiblio.org.
Not a literature site, but there are some great paintings here.
- History Matters. Primarily
designed for teachers of U. S. history, this site at George Mason University
also reviews links to many sites dealing with American cultural history and
has a search feature.
- H-NET Humanities and Social Sciences
Online. This searchable site includes reviews, teaching resources,discussion
networks, and links for literature and history research.
- Librarians' Index to the Internet reviews
and annotates lists of sites in all disciplines.
- Literary Locales.San
Jose State University's Department of English has a page with links to sites
associated with many authors, including Louisa
May Alcott and Edith Wharton.
- Bulfinch's Mythology. This online
hypertext version of Thomas Bulfinch's classic guide is a useful reference
tool for pinpointing classical allusions.
- Silva Rhetoricae.. This
site provides a guide to classical rhetorical terms, including definitions
and examples.
- Currency Values. This site will convert the value of money in earlier centuries
into the approximate value today. http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/current/howmuch.html
- What was the exchange rate
then? converts money from verious countries and eras.
- Roman Numeral and
Date Converter. This site also converts Gregorian to Julian dates and
vice versa.
- Authors' Pseudonyms.
This site lists 11,500 real names and pseudonyms.
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