BIBLIOGRAPHY

SELECTED INTERNET RESOURCES

African American Literature
Maintained at the University of Southern California, provides links to resources on African-American literature, literary criticism, articles, dissertations, and general reference materials, as well as links to specific genres of literature -- poetry, drama, novels, and short fiction.

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 Collection: Educators Site
A Web site posted in connection with a U.S. Public Broadcasting Service television series on nine American authors. Designed for educators, the site contains teaching resources, lesson plans, background information, and author profiles. The site also includes an "American Writing Gateway" that links to Web sites focused on some 50 of America's most prominent authors.

American Literary Classics: A Chapter A Day Library
Contains the complete texts of some 25 popular American literary classics, along with a handful of British works, each arranged in a large-type chapter-by-chapter format. Among the selections are "Uncle Tom's Cabin," "Main Street," "Moby-Dick," "The Red Badge of Courage," and "The House of Seven Gables."

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 Plays and Playwrights: Intro to Drama
An on-line bibliography maintained by the Thomas Byrne Library at Spring Hill College that directs the reader to printed titles about American plays and playwrights, including biography, bibliographies and guides to criticism, and theater and drama journals.

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.

C-Span American Writers: A Journey Through History
An on-line companion to a spring 2002 American history series that looks at the lives and works of selected American writers who have been influential in the course of the nation. The series currently covers eight time periods, beginning with the founding of America and continuing through the Vietnam era, and features 45 writers and their works.

Electronic Archives for Teaching the American Literatures
Contains essays, syllabi, bibliographies, and other resources for teaching the multiple literatures of the United States; created and maintained by the Center for Electronic Projects in American Culture Studies at Georgetown University.

Electronic Poetry Center
From Kathy Acker to Louis Zukofsky, a site at the State University of New York at Buffalo that contains information on and the writings of more than 150 American poets.

Glossary of Poetic Terms
Contain a list of terms, arranged alphabetically, related to poetry; provides the phonetic pronunciation of each term, its definition, and examples of its use, as well as poetic quotations.

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, ChoiceMagazine
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.

The Mississippi Writers Page: The Internet Guide to Mississippi Writers
Presented by the University of Mississippi, the site contains information on some 270 writers of drama, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry who have called the state of Mississippi their home. Biographies of the writers, information about their books and other publications, and bibliographies of other information sources (including literary criticism) are featured.

Norton Websource to American Literature
An online companion to The Norton Anthnology of American Literature (fifth edition) covering 120 American writers. The site provides for each writer a brief biography, "an exploration" in which one of the writer's works is examined, and a list of other sites to consult. The site also groups this information by "topic clusters," permitting comparison of works of the same genré or time period.

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.

Poets.Org
Maintained by the Academy of American Poets, this site includes biographies, photos, and other information on more than 200 hundred poets and some 600 poems. The site features a unique "listening booth" in which the Web reader can also hear 80 poets, predominantly American, read their own works.

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.

A Small Anthology of Poems
A considerable sampling of English-language poetry in which the work of American poets is well represented; maintained by Seamus Cooney of Western Michigan University, the site also links to what Cooney identifies as "my collection of really bad poetry."

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.

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.

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.

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.

Wright American Fiction (1851-1875)
A collection of American fiction that attempts to include every novel published in the United States from 1851 to 1875. It features works by well-known writers such as Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville, along with a great many forgotten authors whose works may have been very popular in their own time. The collection, which is hosted by the Indiana University Digital Library, currently has 1,752 texts by 845 authors.

MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LITERATURE AND POETRY

American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century
A series of Web guides for the 20th century, the guide for each decade include brief facts about the decade and events defining it, as well as links to the notable "Books & Literature" of the time.

American Dramatists
A brief page that contains biographical information for three noted American playwrights -- Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and Lorraine Hansberry -- along with the dialogue from playwright Lillian Hellman's "The Little Foxes."

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.

Storytellers: Native American Authors Online
Includes links to official and unofficial home pages of Native American authors, as well as some full-text publications, reviews, and information on upcoming events.

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.