Surf these sites: A Student''s History of American Literature -- Very good resource for a general overview of American Lit, broken down into time periods. American Authors -- The American Authors site contains pages on individual authors. Each page contains a picture (when available), links to works online, and other information; most pages also contain a selected bibliography of secondary criticism. American Authors on the Web -- General resources American Drama -- American Drama solicits scholarly studies of dramatic literature from the earliest to the most recent playwrights, featuring critical examination of trends and discussions of diversity... " American Literature Chronology - Index -- American Literature Anthology Writers'' Index American Literature Survey Site -- Surveys American Literature from the late 19th to early 20th century. Includes full-text of several novels. American Literature, 1860-present -- This site contains pages for many American writers who lived and wrote after 1860. You''ll also find pages for links, an historical supplement, and literary terms. American Studies Web: Literature and Hypertext -- The inexhaustible site from Yale doctoral candidate, David Phillips. Black History and Literature -- Literature and History written by and on African Americans Brief Timeline of American Literature and Culture, Pre-1620 to 1920 -- The Brief Timeline includes events in American history and literature, with links to pages on literary movements, bibliographies, and individual authors. Ditigized Library of Southern Literature -- There is a collection of 53 texts in HTML and SGML. Electronic Archives Home Page -- "The Electronic Archives contain essays, syllabi, bibliographies, and other resources for teaching the multiple literatures of the United States." Index of Native American Authors Online -- Native American Authors Literary Movements in American Literature -- The Literary Movements site contains brief essays on movements and important concepts in American literature. Each page also contains links to a bibliography of secondary sources for further reading and links to outside sites. Literary Resources -- American (Lynch) -- "Index of literary resources available on the Web, focusing on those of interest to scholars. Searchable and organized by period and topic." MIT Libraries: Literature Resources -- This is a collection of internet resources devoted primarily to English and American literatures. PAL: Perspectives in American Literature -- " ... features images and bibliographical and biographical information on American writers from Anne Bradstreet and Cotton Mather to Langston Hughes and Kurt Vonnegut. The guide offers links, study questions, and more. The site was created by Paul P. Reuben, a professor of English at California State University''s Stanislaus campus... " The Clifton Waller Barrett Library -- It contains, insofar as it has been possible to assemble them, all fiction, poetry, drama, and essays published by an American in book form up to and including the year 1875; for the years remaining it contains a very nearly complete collection of the works of every major American writer... " USIA - Outline of American Literature - Contents -- By Kathryn VanSpanckeren
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