Sources of texts, biography,
criticism and lesson plans for
teachers from the Colonial Period through the 19th century.
[History and Criticism]
[Movements in American Literature + Lesson Plans]
[Indexes]
[Study & Teaching]
[Collections, Online Etexts]
[Early Colonial Writers]
[Later Colonial Period]
[Literature 1800-1850]
[Literature 1850-1900]
[19th Century American Poetry]
[Journals]
[Bibliography]
History and
Criticism
Allan Burns
Page
Timelines of significant literary works
and historical events.
The Cambridge History of
English and American Literature
An encyclopedia in 18 volumes. Vol. 15. Colonial and Revolutionary Literature.
From Project
Bartleby.
An
Early American Almanac
History; facsimile of first almanac
published in 1725
Fire
and Ice; Puritan and Reformed Writings
Biography, historical
inforamtion, etexts
PAL
Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference
Guide
By Paul P. Reuben. Timelines;
bibliographies; resources
Humbul
Humanities Hub
Searchable index to humanities materials; from UK
The Seventeenth
Century: Echoes of the Renaissance and Reformation
Lecture notes
from Michael S. Seiferth
Resources
for American Literature
Analysis and criticism of works by Lorraine Hansberry,
Frank Norris,
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herman Melville, Washington
Irving,
Sarah Orne Jewett, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Stephen Crane, Zora
Neale Hurston,
William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, American Literature
Survey,
literary study, teaching methods, online etexts.
Voice of the
Shuttle: English Literature
English & American literature.
Literary criticism. Must
visit
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Movements in American
Literature
Outline of
American
Literature
From USIA. Literary movements; time periods. Excellent
site.
From U.S. Information Agency
AmericanLiterary
Movements
Defines literary terms, timeline, biography and links for
authors.
From Donna Campbell
PAL:
Perspectives in American Literature
Covers major movements in
American literature. Excellent site
The American
Renaissance and Transcendentalism
From PBS. I Hear America Singing
Modern American
Literature
Early 20th century; by Mary Klages, University of
Colorado, Boulder
Neoclassicism
Definition & tenets of English Neoclassicism
Naturalism
in American Literature
Discussion, selected authors, bibliographies from Donna M.
Campbell,
Gonzaga University
PAL:
Late Nineteenth Century Naturalism
From Perspectives in American Literature
Romanticism
From PBS; I Hear America Singing
Neoclassicism
& Romanticism Unit
By Jay Horschak. Secondary level. Great site! Includes
students using
Internet for research
Movements in
American Literature
Lesson plan for 11th grade survey course.
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Indexes
My Virtual Encyclopedia;
Online Reference Desk
Large number of literature links.
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Study &
Teaching
Electronic
Archives for Teaching the American Literatures
Essays, syllabi,
bibliographies
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Collections, Online
Etexts
See also: American and
English Literature Online Books
American Heritage
Library
Constitution of the Confederate States; Monroe Doctrine;
Origin of
Memorial Day; major poetic works; U. S. Constitution;
Declaration of
Independence; quotes from Founding Fathers.
Documenting
the American South: Library of Southern Literature
Bibliography with links to online etexts. A few pre-19th
century texts
are included. From UNC at Chapel Hill Libraries.
Documenting the
American South: First Person Narratives of the American South
Diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts and
ex-slave
narratives etexts. From UNC Chapel Hill Libraries
Documenting
the American South. Collection of Electronic Texts
Online etexts, complete bibliography above
Database of
African-American Poetry 1760-1900
Etexts from UVA
Early Colonial Writers:
Puritans
Outline of
American
Literature
Excellent site.
The Puritans: Colonial
Writers (1608-1700)
Works by Captain John Smith, Jonathan Edwards,
Benjamin
Franklin,
Anne Bradstreet, William Bradford, Edward Taylor, Edward
Winslow,
John Winthrop, William Byrd II, Mary Rowlandson, Sarah Kemble
Knight,
John Dickinson and Cotton
Mather.
Later Colonial Writers: Age of
Reason;
Revolution
Outline of
American
Literature
From USIA.
The
Early America Review; A Journal of Fact and Opinion on the People,
Issues and Events of 18th Century America
Eighteenth-Century
Resources
Excellent page from Jack Lynch. Art, history,
most major
topics
including 18th Century
Literature
PAL:
Perspectives in American Literature. Colonial Period 1700-1800
Jonathan Edwards, St. Jean De Crevecoeur, Philip
Freneau,
Jupiter Hammon, Samuel Occum, Olaudah Equiano, Phillis
Wheatly,
The Connecticut Wits, questions
English
Server
Eighteenth Century Studies. Novels, memoirs, poems,
treatises. Full text
Colonial Literature (1700-1800) : Reason and
Revolution
Pre-Revolutionary War writers including Henry Adams, Benjamin
Benneker,
J. Hector St. John Crevecoeur, Olaudah Equiano, Benjamin
Franklin,
Philip Freneau, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison,
Thomas Paine,
George Washington, Phillis
Wheatley, John
Woolman, African
Americans
and
Resources
Earlier 19th century
literature
Outline of
American
Literature
American Literature
(1800-1900) : Romanticism & Idealism
Earlier nineteenth century
writers to about 1850.
Later 19th
century
Outline of
American
Literature
American
Literature Prose (1800-1900)
From about 1850 to 1900. Louisa May Alcott, Edward Bellamy,
Ambrose
Bierce,
Charles Waddell Chestnutt, Kate Chopin, Richard Henry Dana,
Frances E. W. Harper, Simon Pokagon, Herman Melville;
Nathaniel Hawthorne;
Transcendentalism, including Henry David Thoreau & Amos
Bronson Alcott
19th Century American
Poetry
Nineteenth Century
American Poetry
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadworth Longfellow,
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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Online
Journals
Penny Magazine
Online Home Page
Published in the mid-19th century with articles on a variety
of topics
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Bibliography
PAL:
Early American Literature to 1700
Selected professional bibliography from PAL
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