Directory of American Resources

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American Literature from Early Colonialist to Contemporary.

Subcategories

• 19th Century
• 20th Century
• 21st Century
• African American
• Early
• Festivals
• Native American
• Southern

Resources in This Category

• American Authors

  http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/aufram.html
  Pages on individual authors with 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

  http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/AmeLit.html
  General resources.

• American Poems

  http://www.americanpoems.com/
  American poetry, from the classic to the latest contemporary poets.

• American Writers

  http://www.c-span.org/series/?americanWriters
  Companion to C-SPAN TV series. Includes transcripts, links, and background information.

• Brief Timeline of American Literature and Culture, Pre-1620 to 1920

  http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/timefram.html
  Includes events in American history and literature, with links to pages on literary movements, bibliographies, and individual authors.

• Literary Movements in American Literature

  http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/litfram.html
  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)

  http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/american.html
  Index of literary resources available on the web, focusing on those of interest to scholars. Searchable and organized by period and topic.

• PAL: Perspectives in American Literature

  http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/TABLE.HTML
  Includes images and bibliographical and biographical information on American writers from Anne Bradstreet and Cotton Mather to Langston Hughes and Kurt Vonnegut. The guide has links and study questions.

• Simonds History of American Literature

  http://www.bibliomania.com/2/3/270/frameset.html
  General overview of American literature, broken down into time periods.

• The American Literature Archive

  http://www.en.utexas.edu/amlit/
  Literature from the late 19th to early 20th century. Includes full text of several novels.

• Wikipedia: Poetry of the United States

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry_of_the_United_States
  A chronological survey of American poetry, from colonial to contemporary work.

• Works for Children & Adults, 1800-1872

  http://www.merrycoz.org/
  Anthology of early American works, with summary. Some text available on e-book.

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