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An Age of Expansion: 1865-1915
General Sources for American Literature
Electronic Texts
gopher://rsl.ox.ac.uk/11/lib-corn/hunter/ Alex: A Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the Internet, a full-text gopher site hosted at Oxford University.http://www.bibliomania.com/ Bibliomania: The Network Library offers 40 complete classic works of fiction, along with reference works, non-fiction works, and works of poetry.
http://english-server.hss.cmu.edu/ The English Server offers over eighteen thousand on-line humanities texts (based at Carnegie Mellon)
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/ Columbia Universitys Project Bartleby Archive has complete texts of public domain literature, history, and reference works.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/modeng.browse.html The Modern English Collection: part of the Electronic Text Center maintained by the University of Virginia Library
http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/southlit/southlit.html Library of Southern Literature, Beginnings to 1920: "documents the riches and diversity of Southern experience as presented in one hundred of its most important literary works." Includes complete texts of works by such 19th century Southern authors as Edgar Allan Poe, Kate Chopin, Ellen Glasgow, Charles Chesnutt and others in electronic format; also offers covers/title pages/frontispieces of many original editions.
http://promo.net/pg/ Project Gutenberg Online versions of classic and public-domain books.
http://www.nordest.ro/shopping/books/authors/ForeignAuthors.htm Contains links to some works by Nathaniel Hawthorn, Henry James, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and others.
Resources
http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/english/compde/ewtitl.mhtml The McGraw Hill Writers' Community has links to http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/english/compde/ewlab.html The Writing Lab andhttp://www.mhhe.com/socscience/english/compde/ewreslib.html and the Research Library.
The Writers' Center also has chat space, info about texts, instructor's resouces, and some fun links. The Writing Lab's the place to go for Online Writing Centers and things like dictionaries and grammar guides. Link to the Research Library for lots of info on using the web for research.
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/home.htm Paul P. Reuben's wonderful site, PAL: Perspectives in American Literature, contains brief bios, links, bibliographies, and study questions regarding major American writers.
http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/index.htm An incredibly comphrehensive guide to American Literature on the Web maintained by Akihito Ishikawa of the Nagasaki College of Foreign Languages
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/ Literary Resources on the Net: offers a wealth of online resources for most specialties. Maintained by Jack Lynch of U Penn.
http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/shuttle/english.html The Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research: English Literature main page. Includes a vast number of resources for the study of works written in English taught in departments of English and American literature. Includes breakdowns by genre, literary period, cultural context, etc.
http://www.teleport.com/~mgroves/ Literature Resources for the High School and College Student
http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/ The American Studies Crossroads Project
http://www.missouri.edu/~engmo/amlit.html American Lit resources online arranged in a timeline and maintained by Michael O'Conner.
http://www.lib.vt.edu/Subjects/English_L&L.html English Language and Literature Resources from the University Libraries at Virginia Tech
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Genres/Literary_Fiction/Authors/ The directory at Yahoo about fiction writers
http://www.poets.org/ The website of The Academy of American Poets
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Poetry/Poets/ The directory at Yahoo about poets
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Genres/Drama/Playwrights/ The directory at Yahoo about playwrights
http://www.nobel.se/ The website of the Nobel Foundation
http://www.pulitzer.org/navigation/index.html The website of the Pulitzer Prizes
http://www.bookwire.com/NBF/docs/nbf.html The National Book Foundation homepage
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