Directory of 19th Century Resources

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Subcategories

• Alcott, Louisa May
• Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
• Bellamy, Edward
• Bierce, Ambrose
• Brown, Charles Brockden
• Bryant, William Cullen
• Cable, George Washington
• Cahan, Abraham
• Cooper, James Fenimore
• Crane, Stephen
• Dana, Richard Henry, Jr.
• Dickinson, Emily
• Douglass, Frederick
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel
• Holmes, Oliver Wendell
• Howells, William Dean
• Irving, Washington
• Jackson, Helen Hunt
• Jewett, Sarah Orne
• Kane, Elisha Kent
• Lincoln, Abraham
• Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
• Longstreet, Augustus
• Lowell, James Russell
• Melville, Herman
• Poe, Edgar Allan
• Robinson, Edwin Arlington
• Stowe, Harriet Beecher
• Thoreau, Henry David
• Twain, Mark
• Washington, Booker T.
• Whitman, Walt
• Whittier, John Greenleaf

Resources in This Category

• 19th-Century American Children and What They Read

  http://www.merrycoz.org/
  A site devoted to American children and their literature from 1800-1872, featuring texts of children's books and magazines of the period, particularly works by Samuel G. Goodrich.

• Emmeline Grangerford's Scrapbook

  http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA04/hess/Emmeline/EmmelineGrangerford.html
  Study of the American Way of Death in the Victorian era. Includes an examination of views on death, spiritualism, the mourning process, obituaries, postmortem photography, memorial photography, posthumous mourning paintings, funerary practices, and epitaphs.

• HTI American Verse Project

  http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/amverse/
  A collaborative project between the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) and the University of Michigan Press.

• Introduction to American Romanticism

  http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/eng372/intro.htm
  By Ann Woodlief.

• Sunday School Books: Shaping the Values of Youth in Nineteenth-Century America (American Memory, Library of Congress)

  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/miemhtml/svyhome.html
  A representative selection of American Sunday school books published between 1815 and 1865, drawn from the collections of Michigan State University and Central Michigan University Libraries.

• USA: National Identity I

  http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/essays/1801-1900/the-role-of-philosophy-and-literature/
  An essay by Keijo Virtanen on the role of philosophy and literature in building up the national identity of the early 19th century United States.

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