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Key Sites on American Literature
American Literature - General
Colonial and 19th Century American Literature and Poetry
Modern and Contemporary American Literature and Poetry
AMERICAN LITERATURE - GENERAL
- African American Literature and
History
- Includes a brief history of African-American literature, online e-texts from the New
York Public Library's Schomburg Center, full text poetry for several African-American
poets, and online resource documents on literature by and about blacks.
- African American Writers:
Online E-texts
- Includes biographical information on as well as the writings of a host of
African-American writers, ranging over time from Jupiter Hammon in the 1700s to
contemporary writers.
- American Authors on the Web
- A very comprehensive site from Nagoya University that presents a chronological listing
of almost 800 American authors and includes biographical authors and/or writing samples
for the majority of them.
- American Literature,
Keele
- Includes three virtual libraries that contain, respectively, electronic texts and
resources for 18th and 19th century American literature, electronic texts and resources
for 20th century American literature, and literature by and on black Americans. Also
includes links to other American and global literature Web sites, as well as an electronic
archives for teaching American literature.
- American Literature Online
- An extensive compilation of American literature Web sites arranged in the categories of
discussion lists, early American, romanticism, realism and naturalism, modernism, and
contemporary. Several links to home pages for individual authors.
- American Literature Resource Guides
- From Tulane University, a resource guide that covers primary sources, guides and
encyclopedias, surveys and chronologies, biographical dictionaries, and criticism, among
other categories.
- American Literature Survey Site [In
frames: click on the picture and then click on the link to "American Literature
Survey Site"]
- Developed by students at the University of Texas, contains two sections: (1) the
American Literature Survey Site, which includes student work and interactive texts, (2) An
American Reader, which is an outgrowth of a class in which students selected their own
readings and constructed an anthology. Also includes texts and text excerpts of the work
of such noted American writers as Herman Melville, Washington Irving, and Zora Neale
Hurston.
- Asian
American Literature
- A "work in progress" introduction to the growing world of Asian American
literature covering authors from China, Japan, and the Philippines. Also includes a map of
Asia and a list of books for the classroom.
- Best African American
Literature Sites
- A listing of sites with information on African-American literature that are rated the
"best" by the African American Online Writers Guild.
- A Brief Chronology of
African American Literature
- From San Antonio College, a listing and several links to the foremost African-American
writers and their works, from the mid-1700s to the present day.
- Brief Timeline of
American Literature and Events Pre-1620 to 1920
- A comprehensive timeline that matches the political and social history of the United
States with the literature of the time, by decade for the early years and by year after
the year 1800.
- A Celebration of Women
Writers
- A comprehensive site that lists upwards of 900 American women writers from the country's
beginning until the present time and includes links to information on and the works of
many of them. Also includes links to women writers in some 90 other countries. A product
of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie-Mellon University.
- History of American
Literature
- Course material for an American-produced lecture survey on American literature for
presentation at Yasuda Women's University in Hiroshima, Japan.
- Index of Native
American Book Resources
- Includes extensive links to organizations, online and printed journals, and presses
specializing in Native American literature, as well as links to books with Native American
content, home pages for Native American authors, and much more.
- Internet
Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection
- A literary metasite containing annotations of sites and articles devoted to literary
criticism and information on authors. In addition to 200 American and British authors,
more than 50 international authors are featured. The collection indexes over 2,500
resources.
- Internet Sites Related to
Electronic Literature, Choice Magazine
- Includes information on publishers of electronic literature, library sites,
Web-accessible Gopher lists, lists of electronic literature resources, and resources by
period or nationality. Choice is a publication of the Association of College and Research
Libraries, a division of the American Library Association.
- Literary Calendar
- Developed by P. Timothy Ervin at the Yasuda Women's University in Heroshama, Japan, this
Web site features literary events that occurred on a particular day in history. It
features a calendar of the current month, each day a hypertext link. One can click on a
particular date to view a chronological list of entries on writers, literary works, and
literary movements -- most of them linking to other useful sites with a wealth of
information.
- Literary Resources --
American
- Includes links to home pages covering various aspects of American literature, as well as
home pages dedicated to more than 50 individual writers and poets. Maintained by Jack
Lynch, a doctoral candidate in English literature at the University of Pennsylvania.
- PAL: Perspectives in
American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide
- Encompasses American literature in various time periods; includes special sections on
American drama and African-American writers. Maintained by Paul P. Reuben of the
Department of English, California State University.
- San Antonio College
LitWeb, 1865 - Present
- Features a page for each of more than 60 of America's most prominent writers; each page
contains listings of and subsequent links to each writer's major works, as well as
information about him or her.
- Voices From the Gaps: Women Writers of Color
- A project from the University of Minnesota that focuses on the lives and works of women
writers of color in North America. Designed primarily to serve as an active learning
component in the literature classroom, the site relies upon students and scholars from
around the world to contribute author "home pages" for women writers of color.
- Writing Black
- Links to literature and history written by and on African Americans.
COLONIAL AND 19TH CENTURY
AMERICAN
LITERATURE AND POETRY
- African American Women
Writers of the 19th Century
- A collection of 52 published works by black women writers that provides access to the
perspectives and creative abilities of black women as captured in books and pamphlets
published prior to 1920.
- American Literature
(Colonial to 1800) and (19th Century)
- From Northwestern University, extensive links to information on and the works of more
than 25 19th century American writers.
- American
Literature to 1860
- From California Polytechnic Institute, nontraditional links to information on some 30 of
America's earliest writers, including Anne Bradstreet, Thomas Jefferson, Cotton Mather,
Philip Freneau, Phillis Wheatley, and Oludah Equinano.
- Early American Literature 1600-1900
- Links to Internet resources aimed mainly at elementary and secondary school students and
covering history and criticism, movements, study and teaching, online text collections,
and writers of America's earliest days.
- Giacobazzi's Earlier American
Literature Links
- Includes information on and the writings of a number of America's Founding Fathers,
including Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, James Madison, and John
Adams. Also, the works of poets Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, William Cullen Bryant, and
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
- San Antonio College LitWeb,
From Earliest Times to 1865
- Links to the authors and their works from the period of exploration and colonization in
the United States to the early 19th century.
- A Student's History
of American Literature
- From Bibliomania, descriptive information on the various periods in American literature
from early colonial times (1607-1700) to "modern literature," which ends for
this offering in the very early 20th century. Includes an extensive alphabetical index of
authors and their works.
- Voice of the Shuttle:
English Literature, American (Colonial/19th Century)
- One of several pages developed by Alan Liu, a professor of English at the University of
California, Santa Barbara. Covers, for 18th and 19th century American literature, general
resources; authors, works, and projects; teaching resources; and journals.
MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN
LITERATURE AND POETRY
- Contemporary
Literature
- Links to more than 50 of America's most prominent current writers, from Edward Abbey and
Maya Angelou to Amy Tan and Tom Wolfe. Created by Northwestern University.
- Modern & Contemporary
American Poetry
- Links to course materials for a American poetry virtual reality environment. Maintained
by Alan Filreis, a professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.
- Modern Literature (American)
- A listing compiled at Northwestern University of prominent 20th century American
writers, with extensive links to biographical information on these individuals, as well as
the texts of their writings.
- Native
American Authors
- Provides information on Native North American authors with bibliographies of their
published works, biographical information, and links to online resources including
interviews, online texts, and tribal websites.
- Native
American Literature Meta-Sites
- Directs the viewer to two other sites that contain links related to many resources
related to Native American Literature.
- The Academy of
American Poets
- A listing of some 150 poets, complete with links to biographical information and often
full texts of their works.
- The Poetry and Prose of the
Harlem Renaissance
- Provides biographical information on many talented African-American writers of the
1920s, along with numerous examples of their work.
- Twentieth-century Poetry in
English
- From professor Eiichi Hishikawa at Kobe University, a site containing links to the works
of more than 140 poets writing in English and "poet pages" for 11 of these,
including T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Marianne Moore, and William Carolos Williams.
- Voice of the Shuttle:
English Literature, Modern,
Voice of the Shuttle:
English Literature, Contemporary
- Two of several pages developed by Alan Liu, a professor of English at the University of
California, Santa Barbara. Cover, for modern and contemporary American literature,
respectively. Includes general resources; authors, works, and projects; teaching
resources; and journals.
- Voice of the Shuttle: English
Literature, Minority Literatures
- One of several pages developed by Alan Liu, a professor of English at the University of
California, Santa Barbara. Links to sites featuring the work of African-American,
Asian-American, Chicano/Latino, Jewish, and Native American writers. Includes general
resources; authors, works, and projects; teaching resources; and journals.
Last Updated 11/24/99
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