Literary Resources -- American

• Mailing lists and calls for papers
• Course Syllabi
• Voice of the Shuttle American Literature Pages:
  • Colonial
  • Nineteenth-Century
  • Modern American
  • Contemporary American
  • Minority Literatures
• General Pages:
  • American Studies at the University of Virginia -- Extensive collection of American resources, including a superb collection of annotated links, on-line exhibits from the Museum for American Studies, many hypertext editions of American works, historical maps, the Capitol Project, virtual classrooms, and an extensive site on America in the 1930s. O si sic omnes!
  • American Studies Electronic Crossroads (Georgetown) -- Superb master index to American studies resources. O si sic omnes!
  • American Literature on the Web (Akihito Ishikawa, Nagasaki College of Foreign Languages) -- A usefully organized set of links to Americanist sites, with chronologies.
  • Making of America (Michigan) -- "A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction." A searchable database of thousands of books and articles. O si sic omnes!
  • Teaching American Literature (Georgetown) -- O si sic omnes! A superb collection of resources on American lit, supplementing the T-AMLIT list, including:
    • Syllabus Library for Teaching the American Literatures
    • Collaborative Bibliographies in American Literature and Culture
  • American Authors (Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya Univ., Japan) -- Very extensive list of links to hundreds of Americanist sites.
  • Circle's Harlem Renaissance Links -- Some links on Bontemps, Hughes, McKay, Toomer, Garvey, Hurston, and others. Ill organized, and not very scholarly.
  • American Studies, Black History and Literature (Andrew Graham, Keele) -- Resources and links on African-American culture.
  • American Literature: Electronic Texts (Andrew Graham, Keele) -- A handful of links to other American literature E-text libraries and other sites.
  • 19th Century American Women Writers Web (UNL) -- E-texts, bibliographies, and contextual materials.
  • African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (NYPL) -- A big scholarly collection of E-texts.
  • American Literature (Daniel Anderson, Texas) -- Hypertext editions of Crane, Faulkner, Gilman, Hansberry, Hawthorne, Hughes, Hurston, Irving, Jewett, Melville, Norris, and others.
  • The Sixties Project (Virginia) -- An extensive site on the Sixties that provides back issues of Viet Nam Generation, information on conferences, bibliographies, filmographies, course syllabi, primary documents, personal narratives, &c.
  • Modern Literature (American) (Northwestern) -- A very good link collection on modern American literature, including mostly E-texts.
  • Poetic Conversations: Modernism (Imagist Women) (Jennifer Benavidez, Texas) -- Biographical information on H.D. and Marianne Moore, along with some of their poetry.
  • The Academy of American Poets -- Listening Booth -- RealAudio files of American poets reading their works.
  • Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935 (Jim Zwick) -- Impressive hypertext containing dozens of E-texts on imperialism in the early years of the century.
  • Epistrophy: The Jazz Literature Archive (Univ. of Alberta) -- Impressive site on literature and jazz, with introductions, samples of jazz fiction and poetry, and a few essays.
  • Buffalo Americanist Digest (Buffalo) -- "An annotated listing of current scholarship in American literature, culture and history." Information on the Digest and annotated book reviews.
  • Godey's Lady's Book (Hope Greenberg, Univ. of Vermont) -- Excerpts from the 19th-c. women's magazine.
  • Scanned Originals of Early American Documents (Emory) -- Low-resolution monochrome JPEGs of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Indepdendence.
  • Covers, Titles, and Tables: The Formation of American Literary Canons (Kenneth W. Roemer, UTA) -- Facsimiles of front matter of anthologies of early American literature from 1878 to the present, with attention to their role in shaping the canon. Well done.
  • Nineteenth-Century American Children & What They Read (Pat Pflieger) -- A scholarly look at 19th-c. children's reading habits, with original essays and bibliographies.
  • Postmodernism is/in Fiction (Pomona) -- Original essays and links on Acker, Auster, DeLillo, Garcia Marquez, Gibson, Hagedom, Morrison, Powers, Pynchon, Reed, and Rushdie. Some aren't yet available.
  • American Literature (Josh Anderson, Basehor-Linwood High School) -- An extensive course page for an advanced high school survey of American literature from its beginnings to the twentieth century.
  • Literary Movements (Donna M. Campbell, Gonzaga Univ.) -- Extensive collection of information on American authors, including a timeline, bibliographies, and many, many links. Well done, and a good place to start on American literature.
  • American Poetry:
    • HTI American Verse Project (Michigan) -- Extensive searchable database of American poetry, mostly from the nineteenth century.
    • The Academy of American Poets -- Hypertext biographies and bibliographies on hundreds of American poets, some with exhibits and links.
  • Library of Congress:
    • Library of Congress Home Page
    • American Memory -- Dozens of collections on American history, literature, and culture.
    • American Special Collections -- Information on the collections.
    • African-American Mosaic -- Culture and History Exhibit.
  • The American South:
    • Documenting The American South (UNC) -- An important archive of documents on the South by Southerners, with searchable full texts by dozens of authors.
    • Center for the Study of Southern Culture (Ole Miss) -- Information on the Center and its events.
    • SouthWatch (Robert Sterling Gingher, UNCG) -- Miscellaneous events and essays; distractingly graphics-heavy.
    • KYLIT (Eastern Kentucky Univ.) -- A site devoted to Kentucky writers, with several dozen biographies and bibliographies.
    • The Mississippi Writers Page (Ole Miss) -- Brief biographies, portraits, and primary and secondary bibliographies for Mississippi authors.
    • Mississippi Writers and Musicians (Starkville High School)
    • Mississippi Writers and Musicians (Starkville High School) -- Impressively thorough guide to 20th-c. Mississippi writers, major and minor. Includes list of works, biographical sketches, original essays, reviews, and links.
    • Center for Regional Studies (Southeastern Louisiana Univ.) -- Information on the Center and links to other resources.
    • North Carolina Writers' Network -- Information on the Society, including its conferences, with links.
  • Native American Literature and Culture:
    • Native American Literature Online (Syracuse)
    • Internet Public Library: Native American Authors
  • The Beats:
    • Literary Kicks (Levi Asher) -- A superb collection of information on Beat poetry, &c. by a dedicated and informed amateur.
    • Beat Culture Exhibition (De Young Museum) -- On-line exhibition, with links to other resources.
    • boHemiAn Ink -- Extensive and well-designed site on dozens of "bohemian" authors. Requires frames.
  • American Drama (Cincinnatti) -- Information on the journal, including tables of contents. Requires frames.
• Edward Abbey:
  • Abbey's Web (Sweden) -- Extensive and searchable site, including an introduction, biography, selected bibliography (no annotations), articles, quotations, and a mailing list.
• Conrad Aiken:
  • Conrad Aiken Study Journal -- Bibliography, selected E-texts, links, and information on the journal. Busy graphics are distracting.
• Sherwood Anderson:
  • Sherwood Anderson Foundation -- "A non-profit trust that helps writers." Includes Anderson biography and chronology.
• Isaac Asimov:
  • Isaac Asimov Home Page -- Miscellaneous information on Asimov, including several lists of his thousands of publications.
• Charles Bernstein:
  • Charles Bernstein Page (Buffalo) -- Biography, bibliography, essays, audio files, and E-texts.
• Ambrose Bierce:
  • Ambrose Bierce, Forked Tongue (Keele, UK) -- "The story of Ambrose Bierce told in the language of his Devil's Dictionary, using hypertext language to create a fiendish translation of the life and works -- and humour -- of this acidic satirist and adventurer."
• Elizabeth Bishop:
  • Elizabeth Bishop (Barbara Page, Vassar) -- Biography, bibliographies, information on library collections, announcements, calls for papers, and a few links.
• Paul Bowles:
  • A Paul Bowles Page (Open Univ.)
• Pearl Buck:
  • Pearl S. Buck (Peter Conn, Penn) -- Extensive site by an authority on Buck, containing a biography, photographs, excerpts from her works, a secondary bibliography, and information on the Pearl S. Buck Foundation.
• Charles Bukowski:
  • charles bukowski: these words I write keep me from total madness (UNC) -- A selective bibliography of works by and about Bukowski.
  • buk's page -- Brief biography, list of works, and ordering information for books.
• William Riley Burnett:
  • William Riley Burnett: King of the Asphalt Jungle (Katherine Harper, BGSU) -- biographical notes and primary bibliographies and filmographies.
• William S. Burroughs:
  • The William S. Burroughs Files -- Bibliography, links, and miscellaneous information.
• Truman Capote:
  • Truman Capote Page (Bohemian Ink) -- Brief bio, filmography, and a few links.
• Raymond Carver:
  • Raymond Carver Page (Phil Carson) -- Selected bibliography and a few links.
• Neal Cassady:
  • Neal Cassady (Levi Asher, Literary Kicks) -- Brief hypertext biography, interviews, and links.
• Willa Cather:
  • Willa Cather Page (Scott Newstrom, Harvard) -- Biography, bibliographies, quotations, and events.
• James Fennimore Cooper:
  • James Fenimore Cooper Society (CMSU) -- Links and information on the Society.
• Hart Crane:
  • Hart Crane Page (Brad Lucas, UNR) -- Bibliography, notes on archives and collections, and links.
• Stephen Crane:
  • Red Badge of Courage 100th Anniversary (USAF) -- Links to Crane and Civil War resources.
• Robert Creeley:
  • Robert Creeley Page (Andrew L. Graham, Keele Univ.) -- Very, very brief introduction with some links and E-texts.
• Felix Octavus Carr Darley:
  • Felix Octavus Carr Darley (1821-88): America's First Illustrator of Note, & Victorian American's Most Famous Illustrator -- Information on the illustrator of works by Dickens, Irving, Poe, Longfellow, Cooper, and others.
• H.D.:
  • H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) Home Page -- Brief biography, primary and selective secondary bibliographies, and a newsletter.
• Don DeLillo:
  • Thinking About DeLillo's White Noise (Philipp Schweighauser, Univ. of Basel) -- Interesting and sophisticated interactive pedagogy site, with a series of "tasks" and questions on the novel. Answers are sent to Schweighauser. Requires frames.
  • The Don DeLillo Society -- Information on the Society, with a bibliography and annotated links.
• Emily Dickinson:
  • Dickinson Electronic Archives (Martha Nell Smith, Ellen Louise Hart, and Marta Werner, Virginia) -- An extensive and scholarly collection of Dickinson resources.
  • Emily Dickinson Page (Paul E. Black and Kris Selander) -- An unscholarly but extensive and informative collection of links, E-texts, photographs, and discussions.
  • Archive of EMWEB Mailing List (BYU) -- Archive of the Dickinson list.
• Theodore Dreiser:
  • The International Theodore Dreiser Society (UNC Wilmington) -- Information on the Society and links to a discussion group.
• Paul Laurence Dunbar:
  • Paul Laurence Dunbar Homepage (Thomas M. Columbus, Univ. of Dayton) -- Photographs, biography, E-texts (and audio files), and links.
• Ralph Ellison:
  • Ralph Ellison Webliography (Claude Henry Potts, UCLA) -- A thorough list of mostly primary works, with a chronology and links.
• Ralph Waldo Emerson:
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson (Geocities) -- Extensive set of Emerson links. Like all Geocities sites, irritatingly commercial.
• Anita Endrezze:
  • Anita Endrezze (Karen M. Strom, UMass) -- Short biography, E-texts, paintings, and events.
• William Faulkner:
  • William Faulkner on the Web (Ole Miss) -- Plot summaries, biography, information on Oxford, MS, filmography, links, and events.
  • The William Faulkner Society -- Information on the Society, and a few links.
• Fanny Fern:
  • Fanny Fern Home Page (Leon Jacklson, MSU) -- Biography and bibliography.
• F. Scott Fitzgerald:
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald Centennial Home Page (SC) -- Extensive and impressively scholarly set of Fitzgerald resources, including biography, bibliographies, events, a chronology, quotations, and commentary.
  • Babylon Revisited: A Long Expostulation and Explanation (Thomas A. Larson) -- Full text of an M.A. thesis on Fitzgerald. Includes useful annotated bibliographies.
• John Ford:
  • John Ford's Romantic Afterlife (Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam Univ.) -- Brief biography and critical overview, with a bibliography of primary and secondary works.
• John Gardner:
  • John C. Gardner Appreciation Page (SUNY Genesee) -- A fan site, but with useful links.
  • The Gardnerians -- Another fan site "for those who've crossed paths with John Gardner, or any of his works." Graphics-heavy.
• Hamlin Garland:
  • Hamlin Garland (Keith Newlin, UNC Wilmington) -- Scholarly information, including E-texts, bibliographies, and links.
• Allen Ginsberg:
  • Shadow Changes into Bone (Mongo BearWolf) -- "The clearinghouse for all things Ginsberg." A big site containing all sorts of Ginsbergiana, including poems, photos, interviews, articles, parodies, reviews, and tributes.
  • Virtual Ink Guide to Ginsberg Sites -- Annotated list of links. Very good.
• Frank Harris:
  • Frank Harris (1856-1931) -- E-texts, biographical sketches, and links on the notorious biographer and autobiographer.
• Nathaniel Hawthorne:
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne -- A good collection of E-texts and information on the life.
• Joseph Heller:
  • Joseph Heller Page -- A few links.
• Ernest Hemingway:
  • Ernest M. Hemingway's Home Page -- A fan site, with bibliography, quotations, a chronology, and links.
• Oliver Wendell Holmes:
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes home page -- A list of E-texts and images.
• William Dean Howells:
  • William Dean Howells home page -- E-texts and links.
  • William Dean Howells Society (Gonzaga) -- Information on the Society, with useful links.
• Langston Hughes:
  • Langston Hughes Page (Michele Guthrie Maynard, Texas) -- Brief biographical and contextual information.
  • Langston Hughes (History Dept., Hanover College) -- A few E-texts and links.
• Zora Neale Hurston:
  • Zora Neale Hurston (Tim Gallaher, USC) -- E-texts.
• Laura Riding Jackson:
  • Laura (Riding) Jackson Homepage (UNC) -- Brief biography (with chronology), primary and secondary bibliographies, and links.
• Henry James:
  • The Henry James Scholar's Guide to Web Sites (R. Hathaway, New Paltz) -- Thorough and informative guide to Web resources, including reviews, E-texts, links, a discussion group, and essays.
  • The Henry James Review -- Information on the Review, with full text available to subscribers through Project Muse.
• Jack Kerouac:
  • Jack Kerouac -- A good collection of links.
  • Jack Kerouac -- Hypertext biographical sketch, with contextual information.
  • Kerouac Speaks -- "Sounds of Jack Kerouac reading (and singing) his prose."
• Madeleine L'Engle:
  • Madeleine L'Engle -- The WWW Resource -- A fan site. Like all Geocities sites, irritatingly commercial.
• Philip Levine:
  • Philip Levine Page (UNC) -- E-texts and a bibliography.
• Jack London:
  • The Jack London Collection (DL SunSITE) -- A first-rate collection of information (E-texts, biography, bibliographies, images, miscellaneous documents) on London, well organized and presented. O si sic omnes!
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Auburn) -- E-texts and quotations.
• Michael McClure:
  • Michael McClure (Levi Asher, Literary Kicks) -- Brief hypertext biography and bibliography.
• Herman Melville:
  • The Life and Works of Herman Melville -- News, brief biographies and bibliographies, E-texts, and reviews.
  • Whales in Literature (Keele, UK) -- A site on, well, whales in literature.
• Arthur Miller:
  • The Crucible Project -- Impressive, though geared mostly toward high-school students.
• L. M. Montgomery:
  • L. M. Montgomery Institute -- Information on Montgomery and the Institute.
• Vladimir Nabokov:
  • Zembla: Vladimir Nabokov Page (PSU) -- Very attractive and extensive set of biographies, bibliographies, and news.
• Anaïs Nin:
  • Anaïs Nin -- Attractive site containing miscellaneous information on Nin.
• Flannery O'Connor:
  • The Flannery O'Connor Collection (Georgia College and State Univ.) -- Information on the library's collection, along with some useful links.
• Cynthia Ozick:
  • Cynthia Ozick Research Homepage (Purdue) -- "a bibliographically-based web site that includes information on both primary and secondary sources reflecting Cynthia Ozick's work."
• Dorothy Parker:
  • Dorothy Parker Page -- A small collection of Parker's poems.
• Walker Percy:
  • The Walker Percy Project (UNC-CH) -- Information on the Project and extensive information on Percy.
• Sylvia Plath:
  • Sylvia Plath Links -- Dozens of links.
• Edgar Allan Poe:
  • Poe Webliography (Heyward Ehrlich, Rutgers Newark) -- Extensive and thoroughly annotated guide to Poe resources on the Web, including E-texts and links to more extensive sites.
  • E. A. Poe Society of Baltimore -- Extensive information on the Society, bibliographies, short essays, chronologies, links, and an extensive E-text library.
  • Edgar Allan Poe's House of Usher -- A fan site.
• Chaim Potok:
  • Chaim Potok HomePage (La Sierra) -- Useful bibliographies and other resources.
• Thomas Pynchon:
  • San Narciso College Thomas Pynchon Home Page (Pomona) -- Impressive conceptual site on Pynchon's life and works.
  • Thomas Pynchon: Spermatikos Logos (www.rpg.net) -- Biography, bibliography, essays, quotations, commentary, and links.
  • The Pynchon Files -- An excellent and extensive site on Pynchon's life (what little is known) and works. Coverage isn't comprehensive, but plenty of good stuff here, much of it not to be found elsewhere.
  • Lots of Thomas Pynchon Links (Susan Danewitz) -- A big (but unannotated) list of links on Pynchon.
  • HyperArts Pynchon Pages (Tim Ware) -- Useful starting point for Pynchon links, Web guides, a discussion group, and so on.
• Philip Roth:
  • Philip Roth Research Homepage (Derek Royal, Purdue) -- Extensive primary and secondary bibliography.
• J. D. Salinger:
  • J. D. Salinger Page -- Very brief biographical sketch, with useful annotated links.
  • Bananafish Home: J. D. Salinger Page (Stephen Foskett) -- Includes "a (somewhat complete) bibliography, information on Salinger's beloved (and loved) characters, opinions, anecdotes, and more."
• Anne Sexton:
  • The Anne Sexton Bibliography (Jeremiah Gilbert) -- An extensive bibliography of primary and secondary works, including not only Sexton's books of poetry but also the first magazine publications of many of her poems. Very handy.
  • Anne Sexton Home Page (Ari Frankel) -- Several poems and photographs.
• Thorne Smith:
  • The Ribald Page: A Tribute to Thorne Smith -- Like all Geocities pages, irritatingly commercial.
  • Haunts and By-Paths: A Thorne Smith Tribute Page -- List of works and links. Irritatingly commercial.
• Gertrude Stein:
  • Gertrude Stein, including an extensive Gertrude Stein Bibliography (Finland) -- A few links and on-line texts.
• John Steinbeck:
  • Steinbeck Research Center (SJSU) -- Information on the Center, with a list of Steinbeck's publications, a chronology, photographs of Steinbeck's houses.
  • John Steinbeck (Scott Simkins, Univ. of Southern Mississippi) -- E-texts, reviews, original essays, links, and a selective annotated bibliography of secondary work.
  • National Steinbeck Center -- Information on the Center; requires frames and Java.
  • John Steinbeck: The California Novels -- Summaries and publication information on the novels and links.
• Wallace Stevens:
  • Wallace Stevens (Al Filreis, Penn) -- Extensive information on Stevens, including selections from Filreis's books, Modernism from Right to Left and Wallace Stevens and the Actual World.
  • Hartford Friends and Enemies of Wallace Stevens (Dan Schnaidt, Wesleyan) -- E-texts, audio files, photographs, and links.
• Harriet Beecher Stowe:
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture (Virginia) -- Electronic text of the novel, nestled among very extensive and intelligent contextual material, including reviews, illustrations, historical information, and even video clips of movie adaptations. Impressive from top to bottom. O si sic omnes!
• Amy Tan:
  • Anniina's Amy Tan Page (Luminarium) -- Interviews, reviews, and links.
• Henry David Thoreau:
  • CyberSaunter -- Henry David Thoreau (UMD) -- Illustrated hypertext on Thoreau's life and works.
  • The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau (UCSB) -- Associated with the Thoreau Edition at Princeton; includes information on the Edition.
  • Thoreau Reader (Richard Lenat) -- Guide to Thoreau, including a general introduction, E-texts, a brief guide to some people mentioned in Thoreau's works, and links to other Thoreau sites.
• Jean Toomer:
  • A Jean Toomer Page (Buffalo) -- A fan page, with biographical notes, lists of works, and original essays.
• Mark Twain:
  • Mark Twain on the Philippines (Jim Zwick) -- Very good collection of writings on Twain and imperialism.
  • Mark Twain Resources on the World Wide Web (Jim Zwick, Mining Co.) -- Miscellaneous Twain resources and links. Requires Java- and frames-compatible browser. Like all Mining Co. sites, irritatingly commercial.
  • Ever The Twain Shall Meet -- A fan site, with links and E-texts.
• Alice Walker:
  • Anniina's Alice Walker Page (Luminarium) -- Extensive information on Walker, including biographical sketch, bibliography, interviews, E-texts, and links.
• Robert Penn Warren:
  • Robert Penn Warren -- "Honoring the life and works" of Warren. Biography, bibliographies, filmographies, and links.
• Edith Wharton:
  • Edith Wharton -- "An overview with biocritical sources." Chronology, bibliography, photographs, and links. Well organized, but like all Geocities sites, irritatingly commercial.
  • The Edith Wharton Society Home Page (Gonzaga) -- Useful collection of E-texts, links, bibliographies, suggested readings, and tips on teaching. Well done.
• Walt Whitman:
  • The Whitman Project (Kenneth M. Price and Ed Folsom, Virginia) -- An extensive "hypermedia environment for studying the works of the nineteenth-century American poet Walt Whitman. The archive is a structured database holding digitized images of Whitman's works in their original documentary forms. Whitman's poetical manuscripts, early printed texts -- including proofs and first editions -- are stored in the archive, in full color when possible."
  • Walt Whitman Home Page (Library of Congress) -- Images from Whitman MSS, including the notebooks.
• Thomas Wolfe:
  • Thomas Wolfe Web Site (Sharon S. Connelly, UNC Wilmington) -- Biography, bibliography, newsletters, photos, and discussion groups. Requires frames-compatible browser.
  • Thomas Wolfe Memorial -- Official site on Wolfe's house, with information for visitors and a timeline-cum-bibliography. Requires frames.
  • Thomas Wolfe -- A brief biography and bibliography, with a few links, on a single page.