Literary Resources -- American
This page is part of the Literary Resources collection maintained by Jack Lynch. Please direct comments and suggestions to jlynch@andromeda.rutgers.edu.
See also the Ethnicities and Nationalities page.
- Mailing lists and calls for papers
- Course Syllabi
- Voice of the Shuttle American Literature Pages:
- General Pages:
- American Studies at the University of Virginia -- Extensive collection of American resources, including a superb collection of annotated links, on-line exhibits from the Museum for American Studies, many hypertext editions of American works, historical maps, the Capitol Project, virtual classrooms, and an extensive site on America in the 1930s. O si sic omnes!
- American Studies Electronic Crossroads (Georgetown) -- Superb master index to American studies resources.
- American Literature on the Web (Akihito Ishikawa, Nagasaki College of Foreign Languages) -- A usefully organized set of links to Americanist sites, with chronologies.
- Making of America (Michigan) -- "A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction." A searchable database of thousands of books and articles. O si sic omnes!
- Teaching American Literature (Georgetown) -- A superb collection of resources on American lit, supplementing the T-AMLIT list, including:
- American Authors (Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya Univ., Japan) -- Very extensive list of links to hundreds of Americanist sites.
- Circle's Harlem Renaissance Links -- Some links on Bontemps, Hughes, McKay, Toomer, Garvey, Hurston, and others. Ill organized, and not very scholarly.
- American Studies, Black History and Literature (Andrew Graham, Keele) -- Resources and links on African-American culture.
- American Literature: Electronic Texts (Andrew Graham, Keele) -- A handful of links to other American literature E-text libraries and other sites.
- 19th Century American Women Writers Web (UNL) -- E-texts, bibliographies, and contextual materials.
- African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (NYPL) -- A big scholarly collection of E-texts.
- American Literature (Daniel Anderson, Texas) -- Hypertext editions of Crane, Faulkner, Gilman, Hansberry, Hawthorne, Hughes, Hurston, Irving, Jewett, Melville, Norris, and others.
- The Sixties Project (Virginia) -- An extensive site on the Sixties that provides back issues of Viet Nam Generation, information on conferences, bibliographies, filmographies, course syllabi, primary documents, personal narratives, &c.
- Modern Literature (American) (Northwestern) -- A very good link collection on modern American literature, including mostly E-texts.
- Poetic Conversations: Modernism (Imagist Women) (Jennifer Benavidez, Texas) -- Biographical information on H.D. and Marianne Moore, along with some of their poetry.
- The Academy of American Poets -- Listening Booth -- RealAudio files of American poets reading their works.
- Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935 (Jim Zwick) -- Impressive hypertext containing dozens of E-texts on imperialism in the early years of the century.
- Epistrophy: The Jazz Literature Archive (Univ. of Alberta) -- Impressive site on literature and jazz, with introductions, samples of jazz fiction and poetry, and a few essays.
- Buffalo Americanist Digest (Buffalo) -- "An annotated listing of current scholarship in American literature, culture and history." Information on the Digest and annotated book reviews.
- Godey's Lady's Book (Hope Greenberg, Univ. of Vermont) -- Excerpts from the 19th-c. women's magazine.
- Scanned Originals of Early American Documents (Emory) -- Low-resolution monochrome JPEGs of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Indepdendence.
- American Poetry:
- Library of Congress:
- The American South:
- Native American Literature and Culture:
- The Beats:
- Literary Kicks (Levi Asher) -- A superb collection of information on Beat poetry, &c. by a dedicated and informed amateur.
- Beat Culture Exhibition (De Young Museum) -- On-line exhibition, with links to other resources.
- boHemiAn Ink -- Extensive and well-designed site on dozens of "bohemian" authors. Requires frames.
- American Drama (Cincinnatti) -- Information on the journal, including tables of contents. Requires frames.
- Edward Abbey:
- Abbey's Web (Sweden) -- Extensive and searchable site, including an introduction, biography, selected bibliography (no annotations), articles, quotations, and a mailing list.
- Conrad Aiken:
- Conrad Aiken Study Journal -- Bibliography, selected E-texts, links, and information on the journal. Busy graphics are distracting.
- Sherwood Anderson:
- Isaac Asimov:
- Isaac Asimov Home Page -- Miscellaneous information on Asimov, including several lists of his thousands of publications.
- Charles Bernstein:
- Ambrose Bierce:
- Ambrose Bierce, Forked Tongue (Keele, UK) -- "The story of Ambrose Bierce told in the language of his Devil's Dictionary, using hypertext language to create a fiendish translation of the life and works -- and humour -- of this acidic satirist and adventurer."
- Elizabeth Bishop:
- Elizabeth Bishop (Barbara Page, Vassar) -- Biography, bibliographies, information on library collections, announcements, calls for papers, and a few links.
- Paul Bowles:
- Pearl Buck:
- Pearl S. Buck (Peter Conn, Penn) -- Extensive site by an authority on Buck, containing a biography, photographs, excerpts from her works, a secondary bibliography, and information on the Pearl S. Buck Foundation.
- Charles Bukowski:
- William Riley Burnett:
- William S. Burroughs:
- Truman Capote:
- Raymond Carver:
- Neal Cassady:
- Neal Cassady (Levi Asher, Literary Kicks) -- Brief hypertext biography, interviews, and links.
- Willa Cather:
- Willa Cather Page (Scott Newstrom, Harvard) -- Biography, bibliographies, quotations, and events.
- James Fennimore Cooper:
- Hart Crane:
- Hart Crane Page (Brad Lucas, UNR) -- Bibliography, notes on archives and collections, and links.
- Stephen Crane:
- Robert Creeley:
- Robert Creeley Page (Andrew L. Graham, Keele Univ.) -- Very, very brief introduction with some links and E-texts.
- H.D.:
- Don DeLillo:
- Don DeLillo's America (Curt Gardner, Berkeley) -- Biography, extensive primary bibliography, brief comments on all the major works, interviews, reviews, and a very selective secondary bibliography. An impressive site.
- Emily Dickinson:
- Dickinson Electronic Archives (Martha Nell Smith, Ellen Louise Hart, and Marta Werner, Virginia) -- An extensive and scholarly collection of Dickinson resources.
- Emily Dickinson Page (Paul E. Black and Kris Selander) -- An unscholarly but extensive and informative collection of links, E-texts, photographs, and discussions.
- Emily Dickinson Page (Norman R. Owens, Minnesota) -- Links to E-texts, and annotated links to other sites.
- Archive of EMWEB Mailing List (BYU) -- Archive of the Dickinson list.
- Theodore Dreiser:
- Paul Laurence Dunbar:
- Ralph Waldo Emerson:
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (Geocities) -- Extensive set of Emerson links. Like all Geocities sites, irritatingly commercial.
- Anita Endrezze:
- Anita Endrezze (Karen M. Strom, UMass) -- Short biography, E-texts, paintings, and events.
- William Faulkner:
- Fanny Fern:
- F. Scott Fitzgerald:
- Robert Frost:
- Robert Frost Page (Kobe Univ., Japan) -- E-texts, biography, secondary bibliography, and links.
- John Gardner:
- Hamlin Garland:
- Hamlin Garland (Keith Newlin, UNC Wilmington) -- Scholarly information, including E-texts, bibliographies, and links.
- Allen Ginsberg:
- Nathaniel Hawthorne:
- Joseph Heller:
- Ernest Hemingway:
- The Papa Page (Marcel Mitran, McGill) -- Very extensive collection of information on Hemingway, including texts, bibliographies, biography, and links.
- Ernest M. Hemingway's Home Page -- A fan site, with bibliography, quotations, a chronology, and links.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes:
- William Dean Howells:
- Langston Hughes:
- Langston Hughes Page (Michele Guthrie Maynard, Texas) -- Brief biographical and contextual information.
- Langston Hughes (History Dept., Hanover College) -- A few E-texts and links.
- Zora Neale Hurston:
- Laura Riding Jackson:
- Henry James:
- Jack Kerouac:
- Jack Kerouac -- A good collection of links.
- Jack Kerouac -- Hypertext biographical sketch, with contextual information.
- Kerouac Speaks -- "Sounds of Jack Kerouac reading (and singing) his prose."
- Madeleine L'Engle:
- Philip Levine:
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
- Robert Lowell:
- Robert Lowell Page (Kobe Univ., Japan) -- E-texts, biographical note, and a very brief bibliography.
- Michael McClure:
- Michael McClure (Levi Asher, Literary Kicks) -- Brief hypertext biography and bibliography.
- Herman Melville:
- Arthur Miller:
- L. M. Montgomery:
- Marianne Moore:
- Vladimir Nabokov:
- Anaïs Nin:
- Anaïs Nin -- Attractive site containing miscellaneous information on Nin.
- Flannery O'Connor:
- Cynthia Ozick:
- Cynthia Ozick Research Homepage (Purdue) -- "a bibliographically-based web site that includes information on both primary and secondary sources reflecting Cynthia Ozick's work."
- Dorothy Parker:
- Walker Percy:
- Sylvia Plath:
- Edgar Allan Poe:
- Chaim Potok:
- Ezra Pound:
- Ezra Pound Page (Kobe Univ., Japan) -- E-texts, a timeline, a secondary bibliography, and miscellaneous information.
- Thomas Pynchon:
- Philip Roth:
- Carl Sandburg:
- J. D. Salinger:
- J. D. Salinger Page -- Very brief biographical sketch, with useful annotated links.
- Bananafish Home: J. D. Salinger Page (Stephen Foskett) -- Includes "a (somewhat complete) bibliography, information on Salinger's beloved (and loved) characters, opinions, anecdotes, and more."
- Anne Sexton:
- Thorne Smith:
- Gertrude Stein:
- John Steinbeck:
- Wallace Stevens:
- Wallace Stevens (Al Filreis, Penn) -- Extensive information on Stevens, including selections from Filreis's books, Modernism from Right to Left and Wallace Stevens and the Actual World.
- Wallace Stevens Page (Kobe Univ., Japan) -- Biographical sketch, brief secondary bibliography, and links.
- Hartford Friends and Enemies of Wallace Stevens (Dan Schnaidt, Wesleyan) -- E-texts, audio files, photographs, and links.
- Amy Tan:
- Henry David Thoreau:
- CyberSaunter -- Henry David Thoreau (UMD) -- Illustrated hypertext on Thoreau's life and works.
- The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau (UCSB) -- Associated with the Thoreau Edition at Princeton; includes information on the Edition.
- Thoreau Reader (Richard Lenat) -- Guide to Thoreau, including a general introduction, E-texts, a brief guide to some people mentioned in Thoreau's works, and links to other Thoreau sites.
- Jean Toomer:
- A Jean Toomer Page (Buffalo) -- A fan page, with biographical notes, lists of works, and original essays.
- Mark Twain:
- Alice Walker:
- Anniina's Alice Walker Page (Luminarium) -- Extensive information on Walker, including biographical sketch, bibliography, interviews, E-texts, and links.
- Edith Wharton:
- Edith Wharton -- "An overview with biocritical sources." Chronology, bibliography, photographs, and links. Well organized, but like all Geocities sites, irritatingly commercial.
- Walt Whitman:
- The Whitman Project (Kenneth M. Price and Ed Folsom, Virginia) -- An extensive "hypermedia environment for studying the works of the nineteenth-century American poet Walt Whitman. The archive is a structured database holding digitized images of Whitman's works in their original documentary forms. Whitman's poetical manuscripts, early printed texts -- including proofs and first editions -- are stored in the archive, in full color when possible."
- Walt Whitman Home Page (Library of Congress) -- Images from Whitman MSS, including the notebooks.
- Walt Whitman Page (Minnesota)
- William Carlos Williams:
- Thomas Wolfe:
- Thomas Wolfe Web Site (Sharon S. Connelly, UNC Wilmington) -- Biography, bibliography, newsletters, photos, and discussion groups. Requires frames-compatible browser.
This page, part of the larger collection of literary resources, is maintained by Jack Lynch.