AMERICAN LITERATURE - GENERAL
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
COLONIAL AND 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN
LITERATURE AND POETRY
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The Academy of American Poets
- A listing of some 150 poets, complete with links to biographical information and often
full texts of their works.
- 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 2/5/99
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