American Literature Comes of Age (1850-1900)

[Amos Bronson Alcott] [Louisa May Alcott] [Edward Bellamy] [Ambrose Bierce] [Charles Waddell Chestnutt] [Chief Seattle] [Kate Chopin] [Richard Henry Dana] [Frances E. W. Harper] [Nathaniel Hawthorne] [William Dean Howells] [Herman Melville] [Simon Pokagon] [Henry David Thoreau] [Transcendentalism]

Amos Bronson Alcott

Amos Bronson Alcott

Brief biography from Louisa May Alcott Organization
Amos Bronson Alcott Network

Biography; other resources
Amos Bronson Alcott: Biography of Adulthood
Amos Bronson Alcott

Biography; other links
Educator Amos Bronson Alcott, Father of Louisa May Alcott

Biography from America's Library
PAL: Amos Bronson Alcott

Selected bibliography; from Perspectives in American Literature
Creative Quotations from Amos Bronson Alcott
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Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott

Alcott Page at this site.

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Edward Bellamy

Edward Bellamy

Original essays; Bellamy excerpts; related links & literature chronology; From Center for Utopian/Dystopian Studies.

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Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce

Biography, bibliography from Pegasos
Don Swaim's Ambrose Bierce Site

Bio; article "The Wickedest Man in San Francisco"; links to

An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge; A Shadow on the Dial;

bibliographies; other sites
Ambrose Bierce Appreciation Society

Extensive fan site; biography, Bierce on film, bibliography,

school topics, Bierce places
Ambrose Bierce, Master of the Macabre

By Alan Gullette. Bio; history & criticism
Can Such Things Be

From Internet Wiretap
The Devil's Dictionary

From Education Planet
The Devil's Dictionary

Etext from Internet Wiretap
The Language of the Serpent in the Enlarged Devil's Dictionary of Ambrose Bierce
Fantastic Fables 1899 ed

Etexts
Ambrose Bierce: Short Stories

Biography of Bierce, plus extensive online etexts of short stories;

from ClassicReader.com
The Boarded Window

Short story; from Classic Short Stories
Equipped for Service

From Fantastic Fables
Father and Son

From Fantastic Fables
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Short story; from Classic Short Stories
The Ingenious Patriot

Text of short story
Outline for American Literature Unit

df file; secondary level; by Sunny Stautz
American Literature Unit. Realism

Uses An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Athens Educational, Teachers' Guide

Guide for Bierce's The Arrest

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Charles Waddell Chestnutt (1858-1932)

Charles Waddell Chesnutt

Biography from North Carolina Writers
Modern English Collection. E-Texts.

Space down to name. Includes: The House Behind the Cedars; Po' Sandy; The Goophered Grapevine; Baxter's Procrustes; The Bouquet; The Wife of His Youth.
The Black Man in Late Nineteenth-Century Literatue: A Comparison of the Short Stories of Page and Cable with Those of Their Black Counterparts Chesnutt and Dunbar

Unit & lesson plans.
Charles W. Chesnutt. "The Free Colored People of North Carolina"

E-text from Berea College
A Digitized Library of Southern Literature: Beginnings to 1920

Space down to Chestnutt. Includes links to The Colonel's Dream, The Conjure Woman, The House Behind the Cedars, The Marrow of Tradition, The Wife of His Youth; biographical info
Mr. Charles W. Chestnutt's Stories

Commentary by William Dean Howells

Return to African American Authors; Online E-texts

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Chief Seattle

Chief Seattle's Address

Description; text of address
Chief Seattle on the Internet

Various forms of his address; discussion; portrait
Chief Seattle

Historical background of his address; authenticity essay
Chief Seattle's Letter to All

Variants on his address.
Suquamish Tribe

Page from Seattle's tribe; home page of Suquamish Indians
Brother Eagle, Sister Sky

Curriculum material from Montgomery County Public Schools, based on Susan Jeffers' picture book.
Brother Eagle, Sister Sky : A Message from Chief Seattle

Children's book; ages 4-8. Book by Susan Jeffers. From

Barnes & Noble catalog

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Kate Chopin (1851-1904)

Kate Chopin

Chopin page at this site.

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Richard Henry Dana

Two Years Before the Mast Etext.
Two Books, Two Characters A comparison between Billy Budd (Herman Melville's Billy Budd) and Sam in Dana's Two Years... By Patrick Zahn

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Frances E. W. Harper (1825-1911)

Frances E. W. Harper

Portrait; bibliography; assessment. From PAL
Sketches of Southern Life

Etext. Click on "Full Text." By Frances E. Watkins Harper
Iola Leroy; or, Shadows Uplifed

[1893] From MOA Bibliography, UMichigan
Atlant Offering: Poems

From American Verse Collection. UMichigan
Poems

1895. From UVirginia Electronic Text Center
Quotations
Harper Pathfinder

Reference sources; bibliography
Rhetorica

Brief bio of Harper
Poetry: A Mirror in Which I See Myself

Unit/Lesson Plan. Fifth grade. Black History Month

Return to African American Authors; Online E-texts

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Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

Nathaniel Hawthorn Teacher's Resource File

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William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells Society [Howells was born in my home town of Martins Ferry, Ohio. I used to pass the house on my way to school every day.]
Mr. Charles W. Chestnutt's Stories Commentary by William Dean Howells

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Herman Melville (1819-1891

Herman Melville Page Biographies; news; his works

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Simon Pokagon

Native American Authors: Simon Pokagon

Biography; bibliography and links from Internet Public Library
The Future of the Red Man (1897) Etext. Pokagon was a Native American author.
An Indian on the Problems of His Race (1895) Extext. From UVA
On Naming the Indians (1897) Etext. From UVA
Indian Superstitions and Legends (1898) Etext from UVA
Potawatomi History From First Nations' Histories
A Literary History of the American West From the Western Literature Association

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Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau. CyberSaunter Site under construction. Has biographical info & overview of life and works.
The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau The Thoreau Project
The Electronic Drummer The Electronic Drummer is the newsletter of the Thoreau Institute which responds to Thoreau's call to preserve the environment.
Ecology Hall of Fame: Thoreau Biography, bibliography
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Online texts: Civil Disobedience; Life Without Principle; A Plea for Captain John Brown; Slavery in Massachusetts; Walden or Life in the Woods.
The Life of Henry David Thoreau Biography
Henry David Thoreau Biography & general information; portrait and related graphics; lists several sites for full e-text of his works.
Thoreau's Cape Cop An interactive tour
Non-Violent Protest Through the Ages Unit & lesson plans. Focuses on Thoreau, Gandhi and Martin Luther King
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail Lesson plan

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Transcendentalism

Transcendentalism Articles. Britannica Online
American Transcendentalism Article
Swedenborg's Influence on Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Emergence of Transcendentalism
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Philosophy and Perspective Article. Transcendentalism
Threads of Change in 19th Century American Literature: A Language Arts Unit for Grades 7-9" Includes Transcendentalism; works of Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Thoreau and Emerson
Concord, Massachusetts Info on transcendetalists; timeline. From PBS

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