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Literature and Language Guide

American Literature

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century

Choice Highly Recommended site

The American Academy of Poets

poets.org

American Authors

a good resource for undergraduate non-majors

American Verse Project

University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative

Anglistik Guide: Germany

Anglistik Guide is a subject gateway to scholarly relevant Internet resources on Anglo-American language and literature. The guide is part of the Literature section in the Virtual Library of Anglo-American Culture (VLib-AAC). All resources are described and evaluated with a full set of Dublin Core-enhanced metadata. New resources are continuously added to the record database, and already cataloged ones are regularly revisited and updated.

The Black Renaissance in Washington, D.C., 1920s-1930s

funded by the Carnegie Foundation; Choice Outstanding site

The Carsons McCullers Project

information on McCullers is not available on the web to any great extent; this site is the best, but needs to be used with caution

Celebration of Women Writers

University of Pennsylvania

Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Choice Highly Recommended site

Contemporary American Poetry Archives

An electronic archive designed to make [a selection of] out-of-print volumes of poetry available to readers, scholars, and researchers.

eOneill.com : An Electronic Eugene O'Neill Archive

well-designed, graphically pleasing web site; Choice Highly Recommended site

Early Americas Digital Archive, 1492- c. 1802

Choice Outstanding site; University of Maryland

Edgar Allan Poe Digital Collection

The site offers researchers a lot of unique manuscripts, articles, and Poeiana in a user-friendly format

The Edith Wharton Society

Emily Dickinson Electronic Archive

Choice Outstanding site

The Emily Dickinson International Society

Emily Dickinson - The Complete [published] Poems

Bartleby.com: Great Books Online

Emma Goldman Papers

F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary

University of South Carolina; an exhibit from 1996, updated 2002

Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Utopia

begun 1994 in print and then placed online; a large collection of bibliographies and checklists--recommended reading lists, author indexes, critical works, Web sites--related to feminist science fiction and fantasy; a wealth of information on this specialized but popular topic

The Jack London Online Collection

Jean and Charles Schulz Information Center, Sonoma State University

Library of Southern Literature

material published before 1924; Choice Outstanding site; University of North Carolina

Literature and Culture of the American 1950s

Choice Outstanding site; University of Pennsylvania

Luminarium : Toni Morrison's Page

Herman Melville (1819-1891)

ipl2 : Herman Melville

Merrycoz.org: Nineteenth-Century American Children & What They Read

The site offers transcriptions and images from a variety of 19th-century children's books and magazines; Dr. Pat Pflieger (English, Univ. of Pennsylvania) the sites author argues that children's books and magazines from this period are important because they are what 19th-century American citizens, voters, and politicians read in their most impressionable years. This site offers far more contextual information than other sites.

The Mississippi Writers Page

Choice Outstanding site; an internet guide to Mississippi writers; e.g. William Faulkner, John Grisham; Eudora Welty; Shelby Foote; Walker Percy and many other outstanding writers.

PAL : Perspectives in American Literature - a Research Guide

Choice Outstanding site

The Paris Reviews : The Interviews

Choice Outstanding site

Representative Poetry Online

supported by the University of Toronto; Choice Highly Recommended site

Storytellers : Native American Authors Online

Steinbeck Studies : The Martha Heasley Cox Center

Twentieth-Century Poetry in English

116 poets

Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture

Choice Outstanding site

The Walt Whitman Archive

Choice Highly Recommended site

The Willa Cather Archive

Choice Outstanding site; one reviewer described it as a "splendid archive!"; the site is by far the most careful and complete guide to Cather; organized and sponsored by the University of Nebraska; the site covers all important aspects of Cather research

Victorian Women Writers Project

Indiana University; Choice Outstanding site; begun in 1995 the site is primarily concerned with the exposure of lesser-known British women writers of the 19th century

Web of American Transcendentalism

supported by Virginia Commonwealth University; provides a comprehensive overview of primary sources and recent secondary research

Women in Print: Essays on the Print Culture of American Women from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

edited by James P. Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand; print version published by University of Wisconsin Press; Choice Highly Recommended site

Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875

a collection of 19th-century American fiction as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875;   currently there are 2,287 volumes; Indiana University Digital Library Program

Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress

Choice Outstanding site