STARTING POINTS:
BIBLIOGRAPHIES:
INSTITUTIONS:
MAGAZINES:
GENERAL RESOURCES:
MOVEMENTS:
SELECTED INTERPRETATIONS:
POE:
EMERSON:
HAWTHORNE:
THOREAU:
MELVILLE:
WHITMAN:
DICKINSON:
STARTING POINTS:
Gohdes and Marovitz, Bibliographic Guide, 4th ed (1976); 5th ed (1984)
Lewis Leary, AL: A Study and Research Guide (1976)
Oxford Companion to American Literature, 6th ed (1995)
Norton Anthology of American Literature, 5th ed, Selected Bibliographies
Heath Anthology of American Literature, 3nd ed. Vol 1
Histories of American Literature (LHUS, 1974; Columbia, 1988; Cambridge,
1995)
James Woodress, ed. Eight American Authors
Robert A Rees & Harbert, Fifteen American Authors (rev 1984) (Dickinson)
A. Lavonne Brown Ruoff, et al, Redefining American Literary History, 1990
Donald G. Marshall, Contemporary Critical Theory, 1993
Stephen Greenblatt, ed. Redrawing the Boundaries
BIBLIOGRAPHIES:
American Literary Scholarship: An Annual, 1965--
PMLA (CD-ROM, 1961-1980; 1981-1998)
Voice of the Shuttle
http://humanitas.ucsb.edu
INSTITUTIONS:
Anthologies (Griswold, Duyckinck, Lowell, "A Fable for Critics")
Lyceums
MAGAZINES:
Atlantic
Democratic Review (O'Sullivan)
Dial (Emerson, Margaret Fuller)
Graham's (Poe, Griswold
Literary World (Duyckinck)
N Y Tribune (Greeley)
North American Review (Lowell)
GENERAL RESOURCES:
Newark resources: NPL, NJHS
New York resources: NYPL, NYHS, Columbia, NY Society Library
Area resources: Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Boston PL
Newspapers and magazines on microfilm and microfiche
Online texts and sites for research
MOVEMENTS:
communitarian experiments
feminism and social reform
manifest destiny, 54' 40"
postcolonial issues
pseudo-science
religious sects
slavery and abolition
technology of communications
transcendentalism
Young America and international copyright
Postmodern re-reinventions: Foucault, Barthes, and Derrida
SELECTED INTERPRETATIONS:
D. H. Lawrence, V. L. Parrington, F. O. Matthiessen, Perry Miller,
Marius Bewley, Harry Levin, Richard Chase, Henry Nash Smith, R. W. B. Lewis,
Leslie Fiedler, Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, David
Reynolds, Larry Reynolds, Sacvan Berkovitch
POE:
Influence on New Criticism, Formalism, Derrida
Notions of collocation and originality
Political and social ideas
Reception in France by Baudelaire, others
Reviewer of American literature
Topical sketches, satires, fantasies
Traditions of sentimental romance
Use of Burke, Schlegel, Coleridge
Use of gothic, horror, terror traditions
EMERSON;
Anti-slavery, reform. political movements
Conversation, writing, lecturing, printing
Influence on Frost, Wallace Stevens, Ellison
Influence on Thoreau, Whitman, Dickinson
Journals as principal documentation for era
Margaret Fuller, feminists, gender issues
Radicalism, revolution, 1848
Rejection by Hawthorne, Melville
Semiotics and decontruction
HAWTHORNE:
17th century American history & 19th century historians
Appreciations by Poe and Melville
Democratic Party, patronage, Pierce biography
Narrators, oral narrative and the printed text
Old fashioned stylePeabody sisters, Margaret Fuller
Prefaces, theories of romance and the novel
Reputation in England
Science, feminism, reform
Sermons, fable, parable, allegory, myth
Theories of character, literary psychology
Topical, non-fiction, children's works
Use of gothic, sentimentalism, sublime
THOREAU:
MELVILLE:
DICKINSON:
Last edited March 8, 1998