Online Resources for American Literature

1. Starting points:

• Voice of the Shuttle: American Literature (Allan Liu)
• Literary Resources on the Net: American (Jack Lynch, U. Penn)

2. American Literature Archives and Lists:

• Keele U. American Literature Page
• MIMI: 18th & 19th-Century American Literature E-Texts
• SALLY ANNE: 20th-Century American Literature
• Keele U. American Studies, Black History and Literature
• 
  [American Authors on the Web]
• 
  [American Verse Project]

3. Guides, Research, Syllabi, Student Pages, Technology:

• U. of Texas students' American Reader
• Technology & Learning Resources
• Interactive Multimedia and the Study of the United States
• T-AMLIT Collaborative Bibliographies in American Literature
• Researching American Literature on the Internet
• Resources For American Literature from Daniel Anderson, U. Texas, Austin
• PAL: Perspectives in American Literature (Paul P. Reuben)

4. American Studies:

• American Studies Electronic Crossroads project at Georgetown
• American Studies Syllabus Library at Georgetown
• Online Dynamic American Studies Curricula)
• American Studies Pedagogy
• American Studies on the Web

5. Electronic Texts: (links to follow)

The major collections of plain electronic texts are available online at the Oxford Text Archive, Wiretap, Virginia Tech (Eris), and the Gutenberg Project. Electronic texts marked up for HTML and SGML are available online at the Virginia Electronic Text Center project and Michigan Humanities Text Initiative. Publications on CD ROM include the Word Cruncher Disc 1 (Library of America), the TACT Manual (MLA, 1996), the Gutenberg Project, the Library of the Future, and American Poets of the 19th Centuyr. Indexes and bibliographies for electronic texts are maintained at sites for Alex, CMU, Encyclopedia Britannica, Internet Public Library, Library of Congress, Louisiana State U., and OTA (Bookstack).

6. Electronic Bibliographies:(links to follow)

Books in Print is available on CD ROM in some libraries. Extensive information is available online at Amazon.Com and Barnesandnoble.Com.

7. Miscellaneous: (links to follow)

Library of Congress American Memory Project
Michigan Collection of 19th Century American Magazines
American Women of the 1840s

8. Some Major American Authors: (links to follow)

Poe
Emerson
Hawthorne
Melville
Thoreau
Whitman
Dickinson
Twain
James
Chopin
Cather
Faulkner

Last revised 20 January 1998
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