About American Literature
Access sites that are mainly about American Literature: sites
that define, interpret or give overviews.
EDSITEment:
American Literature and Language Arts
Access top American Literature and Language Arts Websites, EDSITEment lesson
plans and at-home activities, and additional learning activities from participating
Websites.
PAL:
Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide From Paul P. Reuben, Ph.D., Professor of English, California
State University Stanislaus. This online text book covers American Literature
from Early American Literature to Contemporary. It gives background information
on each period and author, including links to full text versions of the
author's work where available.
Poets.org
From the Academy of American Poets. Access biographies, selected
bibliographies, exhibits of the poet's work archived at this site and
elsewhere, and more. The exhibits tend to have the most in depth information.
Poets include E. E. Cummings, Langston Hughes, William Butler Yeats and
many more.
American Literature Collections Access sites that mainly collect full text American Literature.
American
Authors on the Web
Created by a professor of Language & Culture
at Nagoya University, Japan. Access links to scholarly
as well as irreverent web sites relating to authors
of American literature. Authors are listed in chronological
order and include such writers as Cooper, Ginsberg,
and Poe.
American
Literature on the Web
This extensive collection of online American
literature is based at the Nagasaki College of Foreign
Languages. American authors may be browsed by time
period by clicking on: 17th and 18th Centuries, 19th
Century: the Age of Romanticism; 19th Century: the
Age of Realism; 20th-Century; or Contemporary.
Bibliomania
This site archives full text works of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and reference.
Find such works as A.S. Eddington's Stars, James Joyce's Ulysses,
William Blake's Songs of Innocence or Leo Tolstoy's War and
Peace. Special interest: Collections, Fiction and Study
Guides. Note: You must register to access study guides, but they are
free.
Documenting
the American South: Library of Southern Literature
Part of the larger Documenting the American
South site at the University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill. This portion has archived the works of southern
authors such as Kate Chopin, Edgar Allen Poe and Booker
T. Washington.
Early
American Fiction This site is a publicly accessible portion of a larger collection
of the University of Virginia. The online collection contains works by
James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Catharine Maria Sedgwick
and more.
Early
American Literature
This site lists American authors by the following
categories: Native American Literary Expressions, Pre-Colonial,
Links Indian Captivity, Colonial America, The Puritan
Influence, Neo-Classic Influence, The Romantics, The
Romantic Poets, Abolition and Uncle Tom, Transcendentalist,
Humorists and Local Colorists, Links to American Literature
(other collections), Links to Post Civil War American
Literature (another page made at the same site), as
well as an alphabetical listing of American authors.
Find links to the works of such authors as Anne Hutchinson,
Washington Irving and Thomas Paine.
Early Twentieth-Century
American Sonnets
Access the sonnets of Edwin Arlington Robinson,
Robert Frost, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Paul Laurence
Dunbar and Rupert Brooke.
Hypertexts
Links to online texts archived on site by American authors such
as Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or authors writing
about America or American Literature such as Studies in Classic American
Literature by D.H. Lawrence. Also included are links to related
works archived at other sites.
Literary
Kicks
A very well done site on the Beat writers
such as Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Ferlinghetti. Information
on each writer includes a biography, bibliography of
the writer's works and links to online versions where
available, bibliographies of works about the author,
and links to other publications and web sites on the
author.
Mimi:
American Literature "e-texts"
This site based at Keele University, UK has
links to American literature in the Eighteenth and
Nineteenth Centuries. Authors include Kate Chopin,
Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville and many more.
SallyAnne:
American Literature
This site based at Keele University, UK has
links to American literature in the twentieth century.
Authors include Truman Capote, Timothy Leary, Kurt
Vonnegut and many more.
VoS:
American Literature
From Voice of the Shuttle (VoS). Links
to works by individual writers by time period, criticism,
journals, teaching resources and more.
Yahoo!
American Literature
Links to American literature related sites.
Subcategories include: African American, Asian American,
Latino American, Native American and Southern.
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