Late Nineteenth Century: 1865-1910
Voice
of the Shuttle
Authors, works, projects from the 19th century
Nineteenth
Century Studies: Journal information
PAL: Perspectives
in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide
Covers authors of the Romantic, Transcendentalist, Realist, and Colonial
periods.
Encyclopedia
Britannica's Nineteenth Century Literature
American Authors
Homepages by high school students analyzing various American authors.
Developments in Women's Writing
Nineteenth-Century
American Women's Literature: T-AMLIT syllabus
A
Celebration of Women Writers: from Mary Mack at Carnegie Mellon
Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910)
Short Story
Search
Includes links to seven shorts.
Life in the
Iron Mills
Site created by American Lit. Class at UT-Austin. Includes Interchange
session.
Janice Milner Lassiter' Introduction
and Bibliography
An extensive list of print sources.
Little
Women
Online version.
The Louisa May Alcott Web
Links to writing, criticism, photos.
Hospital
Sketches
3 sketches from Alcott's turn as a a nurse during the Civil War.
Louisa May Alcott page
Biography, annotated bibliography, and list of works.
Literary Giants
on the WWW: Little Women
Class project at UVA, with annotated chapters and extensive critical bibliography.
Thomas Hampson's I
Hear America Singing
Profile of the Alcotts.
Atlantic
Unbound: "The Stories of Louisa May Alcott"
Atlantic Monthly's Arts and Culture page.
Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921)
A Guide
to Classic Mystery and Detection
Brief biography of Spofford's detective fiction.
Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894)
"Kentucky Belle"
From "Poetry and Musicof the WAR BETWEEN THE STATES."
Gender
Implications in Henry James's "The Pupil" and Constance Woolson's
"A Transplanted Boy"
Presented at the American Literature Association Conference, San Diego,
May 1992 by Sharon L. Dean.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844-1911)
The
Camelot Project at the University of Rochester
Links to a handful of short stories.
Jenny Taylor's
American Literature Resources
Includes text for "The White Heron" as well as chronology, bibliography,
and links to criticism.
Society for the Preservation
of New England Antiquities
A tour of Jewett's family home in Maine, with photos, floorplans, and antique
objects.
Women Regionalists
Revisited
"The limits of local color" addresses Jewett's assessment of
Stowe as well as connecting Phelps.
"White
Heron" site
U Texas site with text and student criticism.
America
in the Gilded Age
Anthology tracing movement toward realism; Jewett in context with contemporaries.
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)
Project
1 and 2:
The Life and Literature of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
A tour through stories, and biography with a look at the early 19th century
women's movement.
Student
Projects: "Sweet Solitude," Two Independent Women,"
Louisa and Edna"
Mohave Community College site on post Civil War literature.
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930)
Author's
Hidden Life.
Leah Blatt Glasser writes feminist perspective on Hopkins' "hidden
life."
A Sheaf of Poetry by Late-Nineteenth Century American Women
Poet Links: Professor Eiichi Hishikawa Faculty of Letters, Kobe University.
A Sheaf within a Sheaf: Poems from the 1890s
Regional Voices, National Voices
Studying African-American
Literature in Its Global Context
Samuel B. Olorounto in the Virginia Community Colleges Association Journal
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) (1835-1910)
Mark Twain from the Mining
Company
Jim Zwick's extensive site provides searches, bibliography, film, criticism,
and much more.
Mark
Twain Quotations, Newspaper Collections, and Related Resources
Numerous news articles and an alpha list of quotations.
Mark Twain
Forum Home Page
An introduction to mailing list for those with scholarly interests in Twain's
work.
Mark Twain in His Times
From UVA's Electronic Text Center, links to contemporary reviews, interactive
sites, full length texts.
Mark Twain
in Hartford
Includes family history, photos, letters as well as a Gift Shop of Twain
Museum.
Mark Twain Project at Berkeley
Information regarding the Twain Project archives housed at the Bancroft
Library.
Twain sites
in Elmira, NY
Residence for Mark Twain Scholars, the Elmira College site contains links
to Twain sources on the Web.
George Washington Cable (1844-1925)
Cable's
Letters Home from the Road
Excerpts from notes scribbled to his wife during performances.
Perspectives
in American Literature
Brief bibliography and link to Old Creole Days.
Crescent City Literature
A history of New Orleans writers told in comparison to Tooles A Confederacy
of Dunces
Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908)
Access
Atlanta
Tour information for the Wren's Nest, Harris' museum home.
Uncle Remus:Social
Context and Ramifications
UVA site with annotated passages and contemporary reviews.
Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932)
A Digitized
Library of Southern Literature
Background and links to five stories.
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
Treasures
of the University of Delaware Library
Brief biography.
Stamp on Black History
Student site with brief biography created for US Postal Service.
Digital
Collections Inventory Report
Wright State Unioversity's pending online collection of poetry, novels,
plays. Includes sound files.
"We Wear the
Mask"
Online version of poem.
Alexander Lawrence Posey (Creek) (1873-1908)
Native American
Authors Project
Short biography with links to other Creek authors and works.
A Creek Indian
Bibliography
John Milton Oskison (Cherokee) (1874-1947)
Native American
Authors Project
Short biography with links to other Cherokee authors and works.
Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)
Louisana
Local Color: Kate Chopin and Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Student essay.
Louisiana Leaders:
Notable Women in History
Brief biography from LSU library.
The
Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories
From the Gutenberg Project.
Alice
Dunbar-Nelson Papers
Biography and Archive list, with some annotations, from the U of Delaware.
William Dean Howells (1837-1920)
The
William Dean Howells Society
Information, including links to projects and issue of the Howellsian.
The Eldritch
Press William Dean Howells page
Links to online stories.
William
Dean Howells on the Philippine-American War
Links to Centennial Books commercial site.
The Henry
James Review
Includes several issues of journal.
The Henry James Page
Links to online articles and stories.
Cher Maitre:
The Other Sides of Henry James
Project of The Mercantile Library of New York, with 3 essays on "James
and the Feminine."
The Women
Writers Henry James Influenced
Dr. Jane Benardete, Hunter College/CUNY
Timeline
Part of a student project.
The Kate Chopin
Project
Currently inder reconstruction
"The Awakening":
Not a Healthy Book
A controversial student essay with a string of email responses plus a link
to the Gutenberg Project text.
Feminine Sexuality
and Passion: Kate Chopin's "The Storm"
Student project.
Forked
Tongue
Witty commentary on Bierces "Devil's Dictionary"
The Devil's Dictionary
Hypertext version of satirical "masterpiece."
Author
of Supernatural Fiction
Presents links on the web, including Ambrose
Bierce, Master of the Macabre
Hamlin
Garland: A Son of the Middle Border
Student project, contains text and comments on "Under the Lion's Paw."
Hamlin Garland
Introduction and links to other web sources.
The
McTeague site
U. Texas site, includes student essays, online text, and Interchange session.
The
DMS Stephen Crane Page
U of Akron student project contains essays, photos, FAQs, and biography.
The Whilomville Stories
Numerous texts linked to site.
The Red Bdge of Courage
Conference Page
Provides a list of links relating to the novel as well as a comprehensive
list of Civil War sites.
The Jack London Collection
Berkeley's Digital Library, with links to texts, bibliography, criticism,
photos, and more.
Jack London Square History
Project
Clever but brief biography.
Jack London State Historic
Park
Links to pictures, biography, and history of area.
Issues and Visions in Post-Civil War America
Standing Bear (Ponca) (1829-1908)
STATEWIDE Interactive
The history of Standing Bear's fight for native American citizenship.
Famous
Nebraskan Native Americans
A shorter history of Standing Bear's trial.
Ghost
Dance
From "Travels with Daniel," an historical trip site with text
on Custer, the Massacre at Wounded Knee and more.
The
Ghost Dance Among the Lakota
Charles Alexander Eastman (Sioux) (1858-1939)
Indigenous Peoples'
Literature
Links to Eastman's work, including reflections on numerous Native American
Chiefs.
Dr.
Charles A. Eastman Ohiyesa (Winner) Wahpeton Dakota
A Native American Indian Resources autobiography.
Sarah Winnemucca (Thocmetony) (c. 1844-1891)
Marietta Holley (pseud. "Josiah Allen's Wife") (1836-1926)
Women of
Courage
A short biography that is part of a site devoted to North Country Pioneers.
What Students
Think is Funny
A teacher compares cultural responses to Woody Allen, Grace Paley, Marietta
Holley and James Thurber.
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)
Anna Julia Cooper (1858?-1964)
Creative Quotations
Brief excerpt relating to the fourth African American woman to receive
a Ph.D.
Our Story: Black Women
Brief biographies on many black women in education.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
Celebrating Women's
History Month
Biography.
"The
Yellow Wall-paper" Site
With links to student projects at various Universities.
The Charlotte
Perkins Gilman Newsletter
Three online editions.
"Charlotte
Perkins Gilman and the Feminization of Education"
From The Women in Literature and Life Assembly, an essay by Deborah M.
De Simone.
Jose Marti & Martin
Luther King Jr: Brothers in Thought
From the Free Cuba Foundation, an essay with linked biographies to King
and Marti.
A piece of
Cuban history
A special interests story from the Miami Herald.
Links to Corridos
(Spanish) Brief overview.
Corrido Web Projects
Student projects, with links to audio and (Spanish) text as well as a few
overview essays.
Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936)
"Mr.
Dooley on Imperialism: Satire by Finley Peter Dunne"
Short overview with links to essays.
The
Profits of Religion
"Merriam-Sinclair
Battle Outstanding in National Political Scene"
From the Museum of the City of San Francisco archives. Check related items.
"The Consequences
of Land Speculation are Tenantry and Debt on the Farms..."
An essay from the site EarthSharing.
"Manipulation of
the Media"
From America's Top Secrets, an online expose of the wealth distribution
in America.
Resources
on Muckraking
Literature @
SunSITE
Includes postcards from Jack London and link to The Jungle.
The
Education of Henry Adams: A Hypertext
From the UVA American Studies Program.
New Explorations of an "American" Self
Jewish-American
Literature Research Homepage
Contemporary writers, with links to bibliography of Jewish-American secondary
sorces.
Ethnic Studies at USC
Native
American Resource Guide
Asian
American Literature
Jewish
American Resources
The Forward Centennial
An editorial recalling the struggles of its founder.
"A Ghetto
Wedding"and "The
Russian Jew in America"
From The Atlantic Monthly, February and July 1898.
Congregation
Emanu-El
A short biography of Cahan's contribution to Jewish-American intellectual
movement.
"Yiddish
Literature"
Edith Maud Eaton (Sui-Sin Far) (1865-1914)
"Teaching
Asian American Literature"
From The Heath Anthology Newletter.
Mary
Austin's The Land of Little Rain
Text of Chapter 1 plus publication notes, biography, and reviews. Frames
only.
"Uncovering
the hidden history of regionalism: The American regionalist insurgency
of the 1920s-40s"
Article from Cascadia planet e-zine.
Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa) (Sioux) (1876-1938)
Native
American Indian Resource
Lengthy biography.
Jeanne M.
Oyawin Eder on Zitkala-Ša
Brief overview with essay, "A Woman of Two Worlds."
"American
Indians in France in World War I"
Excerpt from a Master's thesis.
The
Letters of Mary Antin: A Life Divided
An essay from the American Jewish Historical Society.
Heroic Women You Can Talk To:
Two Boston Immigrants
A preview of a story-tellers travelling show.
Toward the Modern Age
Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915)
Booker T. Washington and
Character Education at Tuskegee Institute 1881-1915
Electronic paper by Dr. Sanderson Beck.
Recent
Acquisitions: Letters from Booker T. Washington
U of Virginia's library--good scans of two letters.
Booker T. Washington
Monument
Historical site with image and quotes.
Booker
T. Washington
Brief biography by Louis Harlan, U of Maryland.
The W.E.B. Du
Bois Virtual University
Ohio State graduate student Jennifer Wager created this site devoted to
many aspects of Du Bois studies.
W.E.B. Du Bois Resources
Numerous links to online projects, texts, and more.
James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
Timeline
Contains text of "Lift Every Voice and Sing."
"The
Making of Harlem"
Frames version, may be read as JPEG files.
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
American Resource Center
Biography and literature review.
The
Children of the Night
The Gutenberg Etext.
Gardiner (Maine) Public Library
A brief biography and link to Robinson's childhood home.
The Ellen
Glasgow Page
Includes links to text and biographical sketch.
Chronology and the
Life and Works of Ellen Glasgow
From Kutztown University of Pennsylvania.
The Women
Writers Henry James Influenced
Dr. Jane Benardete, Hunter College/CUNY
An overview
with biocritical sources
Contains many links to other sites.
Literature
and Politics of her Time
A student project, with analysis of many of Wharton's works.
The Edith Wharton
Homepage
Links to several etexts.
Anti-Imperialist
Writings by Edgar Lee Masters
Jim Zwick's essay with links to Masters' poetry.
Willa Cather Home
Page
Biography, quotations, and publications; many links.
Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial
Website
Introduction to "Catherland" and The Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial
and Educational Foundation.
"The
Promise of Provincetown"
Jeff Kennedy at the NYU Program in Educational Theatre.
American Literature
Research and Analysis Web Site
U of Southern Florida student project with text and analysis of "Trifles."
Robinson Jeffers Tor
House Foundation
Extensive site, with bibliographic links and contemporary analysis.
Robinson Jeffers
Homepage
Links to Journal and poetry.
The Robert Frost
Web Page
Biography and links to interviews.
The Literature
Nook Presents... A Tribute to Robert Frost
Links to poetry, WWW sites, and historical materials.
Robert
Frost and Helen Thomas: Five Revealing Letters and Robert
Frost and Helen Thomas Revisited*
By William R. Evans, for the Dartmouth College Library Bulletin,
and Lesley Lee Francis.
Michigan
Today
Article about Robert Frost's great-grandson and his disinterest with Frost's
poetry.
The Clyde, Ohio Web
Page
City history and links to Anderson.
Winesburg,
Ohio
Project Gutenberg's Etext.
Dreiser
Forum
A handful of discussion items from 1996 and 1997 forum postings.
The Indiana Historical
Society
Brief biography.
Sister Carrie
Online
Edna St. Vincent Millay(1892-1950)
Renascene
and Other Poems
Timeless Selfhood:
The Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Expounding the pages from "Lesbian Poetry."
Alienation and Literary Experimentation
The Modernist
Revolution
Essay from the Academy of American Poets with links to many of the following.
The Project
Gutenberg Etext of Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest
or the
Hypertext Version.
Poet Page:
Ezra Pound
Biography and bibliography; links to texts, journals, lists.
Ezra Loomis Pound
Myriad links, including poetry, biography, contemporary artists.
Alumverse
site on Imagism
Link from poetry project describes imagism.
Electronic Poetry
Center
Contains online discussion from those who knew and studied Pound.
From World Authors
Biography, with first paragraph written by Pound.
The
strange and inscrutable case of Ezra Pound
Abstract of Smithsonian Magazine article, December 95.
The Poetry of Amy
Lowell
Overview and links to lesbian poems.
imagism
Definition and description according to Lowell's anthology.
Modern
& Contemporary American Poetry
Search for Stein under "Texts" for links to biography, online
works, audio readings, and more.
The Poetry of Gertrude
Stein
From the Lesbian Poetry page.
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
WCW
Poems
Transcribed on personal page.
Williams
and Art
A site with links comparing Williams poetry to contemporary art scene.
William
Carlos Williams: the Poetry/Art Connection
Another reference to Cubist and Dada sources for poetry.
Modern &
Contemporary American Poetry
Search for Wiliams under "Texts" for links to biography, online
works, etc.
The
Last Will and Testament of an Extremely Distinguished Dog
O'Neill's comical and wise canine text.
Beyond the Horizon,
A Play in Three Acts
Paul
Robeson: Multi-Genius
A brief biography of the man who played Emperor Jones.
A perfect
Valentine for Literary Lovers
Out magazine book review that reads like a biography.
The
Stanford Daily Online: "Miscellaneous"
Review of Phillip Herrington's biography, "Djuna: The Life and Work
of Djuna Barnes."
Elizabeth Madox Roberts (1881-1941)
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961)
The H.D. Homepage
Biography, newsletter, resources, poetry online.
Imagist
Women: H.D. and Marianne Moore
U Texas student site, with biography and poetry.
A Sheaf of Political Poetry in the Modern Period
PREFACE
to Modernism from Right to Left: Wallace Stevens, the Thirties, and
Literary Radicalism
Alan Filreis Cambridge University Press, 1994.
An Unofficial
E. E. Cummings Starting Point
Contains bibliography, chronology, and links to web resources.
What
the Thunder Said
Extensive Eliot site: works, resources, timeline, etc.
What T.S.
Eliot Almost Believed
From The Institute on Religion and Public Life, a First Things essay.
T.S. Eliot at
Kobe University
Professor's page, including biography and links to other Eliot pages.
The
Politics of T.S. Eliot
A Heritage Foundation lecture by Russell Kirk.
The Love Song of
J. Alfred Prufrock
A hypertext version.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1986-1940)
F.Scott Fitzgerald
Centenary
An extensive site from U of South Carolina, with essays, biography, quotations
and more.
F. Scott Fitzgerald:
A Pathfinder
A brief guide to Fitzgerald's life and works.
Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)
American Prose
since 1945: Realism and Experimentation
Brief background on Porter's literary career.
A Sense of
the Times
A review of Janis P. Stout's biography of the writer.
Katherine Anne
Porter Room
U of Maryland Library site whcih catalogues her papers.
Twentieth Century
Poetry: Marianne Moore
Short biography and links to other Moore sites.
Modernist
Conversations: Imagist Women
U Texas student project (Moore and H.D.), includes historical background,
poetry, and Chronology.
Louise Bogan
Biography
With link to Selected
Poetry
The Papa
Page
An extensive site for beginning an online search.
Earnest Hemingway in Oak Park
Biography and links to online resources from Oak Park Tourist site.
Ernest
Hemingway Lecture Hall
A message board, with a link to a Hemingway chatroom.
Ernest M. Hemingway
Homepage
U of Florida site; numerous links.
Wallace
Stevens
Site constructed by Wallace scholar, Alan Filreis of U Penn.
Wallace
Stevens: Some Poems
A Geocities site; includes short biography.
Feigning with the Strange
Unlike: A Wallace Stevens Site
Materials for Middle Tennessee State U English course.
The Poet
of Two Worlds
A student paper from U Texas..
Hartford Friends
of Wallace Stevens
Site contains links to the Wallace
Stevens Walking Tour and the under-construction Wallace
Stevens Journal.
William
Faulkner on the Web
John Padgett, an Ole Miss grad student, provides biography, character analysis,
FAQs, and numerous links.
The William
Faulkner Collections
U of Virginia Library site.
The William Faulkner Foundation,
France
Bibliography, chronolgy, and introduction to Southern U.S. studies program
in France.
The Hart Crane
HomePage
Links to resources and scholars working on Crane projects; incomplete.
The Lost Generation
Links many expatriated American writers.
The Harlem Renaissance
Page
The Black Poetry Page
The Survey
Graphic Harlem Number
Essays from leaders of the Harlem Renaisssance.
Women
without role models: How the women of the Harlem Renaissance invented
their own culture
By Amy M. Vames.
Reclaiming
Lesbigay African-Americans
Rhetoric of the New
Negro: Creating the Archetype for the Harlem Renaissance
By Andy Cline, a graduate student and free-lance writer, U Missouri, Kansas
City.
The
Harlem Renaissance: A selected List
A bibliography and links from the Chicago Public Library.
Alain
(LeRoy) Locke
Biography amd links to contemporaries.
William
Grant Still Exhibition
Several links highlighting Locke's relationship to the composer.
"Harlem"
"Enter
the New Negro"
A Jean Toomer
Page
Biography, works, and links to other WWW sites.
Links,
from Voice of the Shuttle search
Includes links to biography, student projects, and poetry.
from
Reclaiming Lesbigay African-Americans
Biographies--Langston
Hughes
From the Kansas State Historical Society.
Langston Hughes' Lawrence
"Heritage"
Poems from the Survey Graphic Harlem Number.
from
Reclaiming Lesbigay African-Americans
Countee Cullen:
How Teaching Rewrites The Writer
Hans Ostrom for the South Carolina Council of Teachers of English.
Modern
Conversation: Racial Implications
A "conversation" between poets Cullen, Hughes, and Sharol Olds,
includes biographies.
Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1902-1981)
A Profile
of African Americans in Tennessee History
Short biography.
Poems by Arna Bontemps
"God give to men" and "A note of humility" from the
Black Poetry Page.
Arna
Bontemps African-American Museum and Cultural Arts Center
Under construction.
"Let Us Suppose"
In the Opportunity Journal of Negro Life.
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
zora neale hurston
homepage
An Ohio State student's site, with links to stories, criticism, and more.
Alliance Working
To Achieve Racial Equality
Numerous links to Hurston sites.
Wired for Books re:
Zora Neale Hurston
An Ohio U site with RealAudio broadcast of program devoted to Hurston plus
message forum.
Favorite Poems
and The Black Poetry
Page
Assorted collections.
The
News & Advance Online: "Foundation wants to buy Spencer
store property"
An article in the Virginia paper with accounts of Spencer's life provided
by her son.
Voices
from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color
Biography and bibliography from U of Minnesota's Department of American
Studies.
The
Boston Book Review
Review of Thadious M. Davis' Nella Larson, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance:
A Woman's Life Unveiled.
George Samuel Schuyler (1895-1977)
Blues
Lyrics Online
Numerous links by title (recording artist listed), by Vital.
Issues and Visions in Modern America
American
Indians in World War I... in Symbol
Section of BYU Master's Thesis by Diane Camurat.
From The BIG EYE
Background with a link to "The War and the Intellectuals."
Anzia Yezierska (1881?-1970)
"Gertrude
Stein: Literary Idiot"
First Published in The New Masses.
"The
Adventures of John Dos Passos"
Chapter 15 from Danial Aaron's Writer's on the Left.
One
Man's Initiation: 1917
A Novel, 1920.
John Dos
Passos, 1917-1928
From Penn State University course, Kenneth Burke and His Circles: Greenwich
Village 1915-1931.
Art and Politics
Howard Fast's response to Maltz's "What Shall we ask of Writers?"
Filmography
Links to Screenplays from the Internet Movie Database.
The Children's
Hour and The
Little Foxes
With a link to wordsearch.
The Shaw Festival's Biography
of Lillian Hellman
and Lillian
Hellman 1905 - 1984 American Playwright/ Screenwriter
Lillian
Hellman's FBI File
Herbert Mitgang, Dangerous dossiers: exposing the secret war against
America's greatest authors.
Between
Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy, 1949-1975
From the Boston Book Review.
Clifford
Odets: Anguish of Many Colors in Paintings
An art review from the New York Times.
Introduction to RIPENING:
Selected Works, Meridel LeSueur, 1927-1980
By Elaine Ryan Hedges (Written in 1982) at BookZen.
Mourning Dove (Okanogan) (1888-1936)
Native American
Authors Project
From the Internet Public Library.
Voices
from the Gap: Women Writers of Color
Book review and biography.
John Joseph Mathews (Osage) (1894-1979)
Native American
Authors Project
From the Internet Public Library.
Thomas S. Whitecloud (Chippewa) (1914-1972)
The D'Arcy McNickle Center
for American Indian History
For further information about the Newberry
Library, contact furmans@newberry.org
"The North American Native Authors Catalog": McNickle
Brief biography with links to etexts.
Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)
Robert
Penn Warren's Modernist Spirituality
Review of Book by Robert S. Koppelman.
Baron's
Book Notes
All the King's Men.
Poems
from the Planet Earth
Six from "Poems and Essays."
John Crowe
Ransom Papers
Overview and link to comprehensive chronology at Vanderbilt Special Collections.
Allen Tate (1899-1979)
Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976)
"Barbed-Wore
Entanglements: The New American Poetry 1930-32"
Marjorie Perloff, Standford University.
John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
Richard
Wright: A disgruntled Postal Worker
Biography, chronolgy, and annotated bibliography.
Irving
Howe, "Black Boys and Native Sons"
A 1963 essay about Wright, James Baldwin, and Ralph Waldo Ellison.
Richard
Wright: Daemonic genius
Excerpt from Walker's book about her firend.
"We
have been believers"
Saunders Redding (1906-1988)
Pietro Di Donato (1911-1992)
Younghill Kang (1903-1972)
Carved on the Walls: Poetry by Early Chinese Immigrants
Contemporary Period: 1945 to the Present
Part I--Literature of the Cold War: Orthodoxy and Resistance
Literary Kicks
A collection of writings on several Beat authors and poets.
Biographical
note
Death of
a Salesman
Indexed database from Iowa State University.
Remarks at the Stand
In for Wei Jingsheng
Miller's speech at the New York Public Library, May 13, 1997.
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
The
Mississippi Writers Page
From Ole Miss, with links to films, festival info., and special collections.
Love and
Death in Tennessee Williams
by John J. Fritscher, Ph.D. (aka) Jack Fritscher, Ph.D., Loyola, 1967.
Tennessee
Williams and the Insane
From UNC, Wilmington students, Meredith Gobble, KJ Silver, and Sara
Jones.
The Playwright
Tennessee Williams
From DePaul's Gallery of Fiery minds: with bio and info on works.
Placing
Ann Petry
Part of a student project on the African American novel.
Voices from
the Gaps: Ann Petry
This site is part of a University of Minnesota project on women writers
of color. It contains biographical information, a selected bibliography,
and a quote from The Street.
The
General Store, the "Jukejoint," the Nightclub, and the Rent Party:
where race, gender, and economics intersect, collide, and empower in the
African-American novel
Student paper discussing Petry, Hurston, Walker and Thurman.
Visions
of an African American Identity in Literature
Student paper comparing Petry, Ellison, and Naylor.
Searching
for the Heart of America: Reintroducing Carlos Bulosan
Essay by Bowling Green State University professor E. San Juan, Jr..
Eudora Welty (b. 1909)
Lee Smith (b. 1944)
Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
The Flannery
O'Connor Collection
Collected works at the Georgia College & State University
Library.
Sojourners Magazine,
December 1994/January 1995 (Volume 23, No. 10)
Contains a selection of articles commenting on O'Connor's work.
Tin
Jesus: The Intellectual in Selected Short Fiction of Flannery O'Connor
Essay by a PhD candidate at University of Mississippi.
Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
John Updike (b. 1932)
Ralph Waldo Ellison (1914-1994)
Irving
Howe, "Black Boys and Native Sons"
A 1963 essay about Ellison, James Baldwin, and Richard Wright.
"A
Critical Look at Ellison's Fiction & at Social & Literary Criticism
by and about the Author"
Excerpts from Ernest Kaiser's essay, published in Black World, December
1970 (a special Ellison issue).
"Profile
of an American Novelist, A White View of Ralph Ellison"
Excerpt from John Corry's essay, published in Black World, December
1970 (a special Ellison issue).
Review
of Invisible Man
Review by Irving Howe.
"Man
Underground"
Saul Bellow's review of Invisible Man, published in Commentary
(June 1952).
"King
of the Bingo Game"
Analyzes Ellison's story as a response to The Autobiography
by Benjamin Franklin.
Ralph
Ellison--from leftist reviews to modernist interiority
An excerpt from Thomas Hill Schaub's American Fiction in the Cold War
(Wisconsin, 1991)
James
Baldwin: An Appreciation
Essay chronicling Baldwin's life and work.
Sonny's Blues
A series of student essays about this Baldwin piece.
Irving
Howe, "Black Boys and Native Sons"
A 1963 essay about Baldwin, Richard Wright, and Ralph Waldo Ellison.
Blacks and Jews: Literary
Representations by African-American and Jewish-American Authors, 1955-1977
Review of Marshall's Brooklyn; part of a high school class project.
John Okada (1923-1971)
Tillie Lerner Olsen (b. 1912)
Nebraska Center
for Writers and the Western
Literature Association
Brief biographies.
What the Critics
say about Tillie Olsen
From the NCW.
Introduction to BETTER
RED: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olse and Meridel Le Sueur
By Constance Coineren on Bookzen.
Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980)
Robert Hayden (1913-1980)
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
Theodore Roethke
- I Knew A Woman
Essay analyzing the symbolic language of Roethke's poem.
Poems
from the Planet Earth
A biography and compilation of Roethke's poetry online.
Elizabeth
Bishop Papers, Vassar College Library
Catalogues Bishop's correspondence, diaries, and prose and poetry.
"Elizabeth Bishop:
Planting Tears"
Essay discussing Bishop's Crusoe in England.
Robert Traill Spence Lowell, Jr. (1917-1977)
Robert
Lowell, 1917-1977: Biographical Sketch
Part of the Robert Lowell papers, housed at University of Texas, Austin.
Voices
from the Gaps: Gwendolyn Brooks
This site is part of a University of Minnesota project on women writers
of color. It contains biographical information and a selected bibliography.
The Circle Association's
Gwendolyn Brooks Page
E-text of several of Brooks' programs.
Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
Robert Creely (b. 1926)
Gary Snyder (b. 1930)
The
Circumambulation of Mt. Tamalpais
E-text of Snyder's poem intermixed with photos of the area and the
poet.
The Wild Mind of Gary
Snyder
Interview with Snyder.
The Charles
Olson Papers: A Preliminary Finding Aid
A preliminary description of the papers of American poet and theorist
Charles Olson as sorted and arranged by Dr. George Butterick between 1972
and 1986.
A Conversation
of History: The Hypertextual Historicism of William Carlos Williams,
Charles Olson and Susan Howe
Student paper comparing hypertext theory with the work of Williams,
Olson and Howe.
Frank O'Hara (1926-1966)
Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
Poems from
the Planet Earth
A biography and compilation of Plath's poetry online.
Anne Sexton
Brief bibliography plus extensive links to Sexton's poetry and other
web sites about Sexton's work.
Anne Sexton and
the Confessional Poets
Student paper.
Rats Live on No Evil
Star: Anne Sexton
An extensive collection of links including Sexton's work online and
sites about, or dedicated to, Sexton.
James Wright (1927-1980)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919)
Lawrence
Ferlinghetti
Biography and bibliography.
The Poet,
Disembodied: A Wide-Eyed Look at Allen Ginsberg
An essay analyzing Ginsberg's 1994 appearance at the Chicago Cultural Center.
Shadow Changes Into Bone
A thorough compliation of links to other Ginsberg sites, articles, interviews,
and criticism of Ginsberg's work.
The Poetry
of Allen Ginsberg
Compliation of Ginsberg's poetry online.
Allen Ginsberg's: "America"
Student essay.
Allen Ginsberg, 1926-1997
Poems, essays, and tributes to Ginsberg.
Howl
Various perspectives on the first public reading of Howl.
Part II--New Communities, New Identities, New Energies
Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (1930-1965)
American
Scenes
Several student projects on Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun plus
an InterChange discussion on the play and the movie.
Lorraine Hansberry
A general reference page on Hansberry including biographical information
and other resources.
Voices
from the Gaps: Lorraine Hansberry
This site is part of a University of Minnesota project on women writers
of color. It contains biographical information and a selected bibliography.
A Raisin
in the Sun
This database contains the complete dialogue from the play A Raisin in
the Sun in a full concordance format: every word in the dialogue of Hansberry's
play is indexed and connected to its textual context.
International Theatre Institute:
Listen to Edward Albee
The playwright discusses various topics about theatre/arts in America.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
The Martin Luther
King, Jr. Directory
This directory contains secondary documents written about Martin Luther
King, Jr., as well as primary documents written during King's life.
Martin Luther
King, Jr.
A site put together by the Seattle Times online version; contains a
photojournal and articles about King, plus an electronic classroom section.
Saul Bellow
A short biography.
Saul
Bellow
A more extensive biography.
Excerpts from
"An Unbearable State of Distraction" by Saul Bellow, A Public
Address on November 9, 1989
A Poem About Storytelling
Online version of Paley's poem.
What Students
Think is Funny: Gender and Class Issues in the Humor of Woody Allen, Grace
Paley, Marietta Holley and James Thurber
Professor's account of a classroom exercise using humor in the classroom.
Essays:
April 2
Several student essays reflecting on Paley's work (as well as other authors').
Redfrog
-- Poems from the Planet Earth -- Adrienne Rich
Text of several of Rich's poems.
Why I Refused the National
Medal for the Arts
Letter written by Rich to explain her refusal of the award.
Exploring
Interpretations of Adrienne Rich's 'Diving into the Wreck'
Student paper.
Bernard
Malamud: "The Magic Barrel"
Student paper which analyzes The Magic Barrel and provides brief
autobiographical information on Malamud.
Bernard
Malamud Papers
A special collection of Malamud's correspondence held at Oregon State University.
Blacks and Jews:
Literary Representations by African American and Jewish American Authors,
1955-1977
Malamud's The Tenants and The Stories of Bernard Malamud
are discussed.
A
Cynthia Ozick Reader
The preface to this anthology, online
Cynthia Ozick Resesarch
Homepage
Although the references listed in this site are print, not online, it provides
a thorough list of articles about Ozick.
The
Many Faces of Cynthia Ozick
An in-depth interview with Ozick.
Essays:
February 26
Student essays on Yamamoto's Seventeen Syllables.
Pedro
Pietri
Brief biographical information.
Rudolfo Anaya (b. 1937)
Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) (b. 1934)
African-American
Playwrights
Biographical information on Sanchez.
A Lucille Clifton
Page
A Web site containing the text of several of Clifton's poems and a short
biography.
Ernest J. Gaines (b. 1933)
Etheridge Knight (1931-1991)
The Evolution
from Accepted Oppression to Moral Righteousness of the Title Character
in Alice Walker's The Third Life of Grange Copeland
Student essay.
Alice Walker -
Womanist Writer
This site has a collection of links to other sites on Alice Walker.
Web page
for Alice Walker.
Biographical information plus links to a bibliography and a synopsis of
the film The Color Purple.
Alice
Walker
This article regards a traumatic point in Walker's life which led to a
turning point in her literary career.
Anniina's Alice
Walker page
Contains extensive links to texts, reviews, essays, biographical information
and more.
Alice
Walker, The Color Purple
Questions for teaching The Color Purple and links which contextualize
Walker among other women writers.
Voices
from the Gaps: Alice Walker
This site is part of a University of Minnesota project on women writers
of color. It contains biographical information and a selected bibliography.
Vigilance
and Heart-Cling
An essay on Bambara by Toni Morrison.
The
Lesson
Text of Bambara's short story.
James Alan McPherson (b. 1943)
Michael S. Harper
Contains brief notes and the text of four of Harper's poems.
Manifesto of the
Rubber Gloves
E-text of one of Jordan's poems.
Marge Piercy Homepage
The author's own Web site.
Marge Piercy
Homepage
A site under construction, this includes links to reviews of Piercy's novels,
summaries of her works, and e-text of several of her poems.
N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa) (b. 1934)
Native American
Authors: N. Scott Momaday
Momaday's listing on the Internet Public Library.
Cross-Cultural
Mediation: Language, Storytelling, History and Self
as Enthymematic
Premises in the Novels of N. Scott Momaday
An academic essay discussing House Made of Dawn and The Ancient
Child.
N. Scott Momaday
An extensive interview with the author.
James Welch (Blackfeet-Gros Ventre) (b. 1940)
Tomás Rivera (1935-1984)
Nicholasa Mohr (b. 1938)
"Elena"
This student project explores Mora's poem Elena. The text of the
poem is included, as well as limited information about Pat Mora.
Victor Hernandez Cruz (b. 1949)
Family
Influence
Student essay comparing Hongo's memoir "Kubota" with Amy Tan's
"Mother Tongue".
Part III--Postmodernity and Difference: Promises and Threats
Welcome to Hanksville!
This site contains many narrative and archival Native American projects,
including links to the works of many Native American authors and copywrighted
e-text of many poems.
Index of Native
American Authors Online
Part of the "Welcome to Hanksville!" site, this site contains
links to the works of many Native American authors. It also contains some
book reviews and dates of author appearances.
Essays
on Teaching the American Literatures
This essay by Amy Ling of University of Wisonsin-Madison is taken from
the Heath Anthology Newsletter.
Center
for Native American Arts & Education
This site details the mission and goals of the Center for Native American
Arts & Education.
The Metamorphosis
of M. Butterfly
Site describes Hwang's family background and the development of his play,
M. Butterfly.
Interview
with David Henry Hwang
Interview in "Mosaic" -- University of Pennsylvania's Asian-American
Literary Arts Magazine.
The Literature of Exhaustion
An essay by Barth, part of the "Re-thinking the Book" section
of the updated Electronic Labyrinth.
Barthelme
From the Pomona Pynchon site.
Game
Barthelme's short story online.
Barthelme
Pynchon reviews Barthelme.
HyperArts Pynchon Pages
This site contains searchable webguides for several of Pynchon's novels.
It introduces new readers to Pynchon and provides links to related sites.
Who Is Thomas Pynchon
...And Why Did He Take Off With My Wife?
Jules Siegel's memoir on Pynchon, subtitled "Shedding a little light
on the most famous author-recluse since J.D. Salinger."
Juan's Garage Sale
Listing of sites related to Pynchon.
Pomona Pynchon Page
This multimedia site contains information about Pynchon's novels and offers
links to related sites.
Assorted Pynchon
Journalism
Links to articles written by and about Pynchon.
Thomas Pynchon
Bibliography
Check to see if this site is worthwhile.
Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)
Rolando Hinojosa-Smith (b. 1929)
Salon:
John Edgar Wideman
This offers a short bio on Wideman and links to an interview with him.
Voices From the Gaps
An excerpt from "Black Women Writers at Work", biographical and
bibliographical information.
Audre Lorde
This Emory University site contains one of Lord's poems, a brief bibliography,
and additional links about Lorde.
A
Tribute to Audre Lorde
Contains several essays about Lorde and the text of three of her poems.
Maxine Hong Kingston (b. 1940)
Maxine
Hong Kingston: Warrior Woman
Student paper exploring gender, class, and ethnicity.
Voices
From the Gaps: Women Writers of Color
Excerpt from The Woman Warrior, biographical and bibliographical
information.
Tricksters
in Doctorow and Kingston
Essay on the trickster figure in E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime and Maxine
Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey; His Fake Book.
Anniina's Amy
Tan Page
Contains extensive links to texts, reviews, essays, biographical information
and more.
Chinese-American
Women in American Culture
An investigation of Tan's The Joy Luck Club.
Family
Influence
Student essay comparing Tan's essay "Mother Tongue" with Garrett
Hongo's "Kubota".
Conversation
with Gish Jen
Gish Jen answers reader questions.
Janice Mirikitani (b. 1942)
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-1982)
What
Goes Without Saying
A poem written for Theresa Cha.
Voices
from the Gaps: Theresa Cha
This site is part of a University of Minnesota project on women writers
of color. It contains an excerpt from Dictée, biographical
information and a selected bibliography.
Reevaluating Realism:
Asian Identity in English Voices
Dissertation prospectus which outlines an analysis of Cha's Dictée.
Constantly Resisting
Fragments: The Fractured Narratives of Dogeaters and Dictée
Student essay (by the author of the dissertation prospecus listed above).
Language,
Identity, and the Struggle to Reclaim Pasts
Student essay which analyzes Dictée and the work of Gloria
Anzaldúa.
Impossible
Music
This essay reviews and compares Ashbery's Flow Chart and William
Bronk's Living Instead.
Poems
from the Planet Earth - John Ashbery
Contains text of several of Ashbery's poems from various collections.
A Sketch of Norman
Mailer by William S. Burroughs.
Norman
Mailer, Gary Gilmore, and the Untold Stories of the Law
Examines the story of Gilmore's conviction and execution through Mailer's
The Executioner's Song.
The Myth of
the American Adam in Late Mailer
An academic paper, part of Connotations: a Journal for Critical Debate.
The Sixties
Project & Viet Nam Generation, Inc.
Several essays within this site refer to Herr's works in discussing Vietnam
and the Vietnam War.
Carolyn Forché's
web site.
Long Poem Group
Newsletter #2
A review of Forché's poem The Angel of History.
Electric
Mercado: Literatura presents Poetry by Gloria Anzaldúa
Electronic text of Anzaldúa's poem Borderlands.
Language,
Identity, and the Struggle to Reclaim Pasts
Student essay which analyzes Borderlands/La Frontera with Theresa
Cha's Dictée.
Judith Ortiz Cofer (b. 1952)
Tato Laviera (b. 1951)
Helena Maria Viramontes (b. 1954)
Gary Soto (b. 1952)
Phil Carson's Raymond
Carver Page
Includes a biography, link to an essay by Carson, a bibliography of
Carver's works.
Carver
Web
Includes a Carver discussion group, links, and general resources on
Carver.
The Raymond Carver WebSite
A very thorough compilation of essays, photos, stories and poems.
The Minimalist Styles of Raymond
Carver and Suzanne Vega
Essay comparing Carver's writing and Vega's songs.
Joy
Harjo Biography
This site contains a brief biography and links to many of Harjo's works
online.
Roberta Hill Whiteman (Oneida) (b. 1947)
Louise Erdrich (Chippewa) (b. 1954)
Voices
From the Gaps: Women Writers of Color
Excerpt from The Beet Queen, biographical and bibliographical information.
Cormac
McCarthy's Blood Meridian, Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine,
and
the (De)Mythologizing
of the American West
Student essay.
"Satan:
Hijacker of a Planet"
Short story.
Wendy
Rose Bibliography
A bibliography of Rose's books and articles, journals which have published
her works, and interviews.
Girl
Powdering Her Neck
This site contains the text of the poem and shows the Japanese painting
which inspired it.
Books I
Remember
In this interview, Dove describes books she loved as a child. She recommends
works for children and teenagers in The Western Canon, Jr..
Lady
Freedom Among Us
Text and images of Dove's poem.
A Rita Dove Page
Several samples of Dove's poetry plus a transcribed online interview with
Ms. Dove.
Lives in Motion:
Multiple Perspectives in Rita Dove's Poetry
Kevin Stein examines the position of history in three of Dove's poetry
collections: The Yellow House on the Corner (1980), Museum (1983),
and Thomas and Beulah (1986).
Li-Young
Lee's "Persimmons"
Essay published in The Explicator, Spring, 1996.
Chicana Literature
Student Work
Student projects on the work of Lorna Dee Cervantes from University of
Texas, Austin.
Calling
Lorna Out
An interview with Lorna Dee Cervantes.
Aurora Levins Morales (b. 1954)
Testimonies
to Survival
Notes from an interview with Aurora Levins Morales.
Holders of
the Word: An Interview with Bharati Mukherjee
Transcript of an interview conducted with Mukherjee in May, 1996 for Jouvert,
a journal of postcolonial studies.
American
Dreamer
An article by Mukherjee discussing citizenship and ethnic identity.
Two
ways to belong in America
A second article on the same subject, comparing Mukherjee's feelings of
identity with her sister's.
Bharati
Mukherjee: an interview
Mukherjee discusses immigration, racism in different countries, and feminism
in an interview with SPAN.
Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna) (b. 1948)
Native American
Authors: Leslie Marmon Silko
A comprehensive list of online resources by or about Silko.
A
Comprehensive WWW Index: Leslie Marmon Silko
Another series of links including some critiques of her work.
Ceremony
A summary of Silko's Ceremony.
The Border Patrol
State
Silko's 1994 essay was a cover story in the online Tucson Weekly,
September 26, 1996.
Voices
from the Gaps: Leslie Marmon Silko
This site is part of a University of Minnesota project on women writers
of color. It contains biographical information and a selected bibliography.
Fences Against
Freedom
An essay by Leslie Marmon Silko.
Leslie Marmon Silko's
Ceremony and the Effects of While Contact on Pueblo Myth and Ritual
An essay on Ceremony and Pueblo myth and ritual.
Voices
from the Gaps: Sandra Cisneros
This site is part of a University of Minnesota project on women writers
of color. It contains a brief quote from Cisneros, biographical information,
and a selected bibliography.
Geniuses Can Come in Many Colors
LatinoLink article describing Cisneros' MacArthur Fellowship award.
Sandra Cisneros
This site contains brief comments about the author and an excerpt from
"Original Sin" from Loose Woman.
"A House of
My Own"
This Texas Woman's University site offers a brief biographical sketch of
Cisneros.
Simon Ortiz (Acoma Pueblo) (b. 1941)
Writing the Southwest Homepage
Ortiz is one of thirteen American Southwest authors highlighted in this
thirteen-part national radio documentary series.
Web
page for Toni Morrison's Beloved
Developed by University of Texas students, this site provides biographical
information on Morrison, descriptions of 19th century historical events
providing context for Beloved, a close reading of Beloved,
and an anthology of Morrison's novels. The site was awarded Lycos' Top
5% Award.
Toni Morrison References
on the Internet
A student's extensive project including biographical information on Morrison,
a bibliography of sources related to his research, an anthology of student
essays on various Morrison novels, links to a Morrison discussion group,
and a search function.
Toni Morrison,
Author
A relatively spare site, exploring five of Morrison's novels by key themes
and motifs.
The World That Toni Morrison
Made
A comprehensive site, including critical work on several of Morrison's
novels, biographical information, and interviews with Morrison.
Toni Morrison
-- Tar Baby
"Faces as Black as His But Smug" -- The Race Traitor in
Morrison's Tar Baby
Anniina's
Toni Morrison Page
Another comprehensive site including quite a few site links.
Goddess
Speaks the Blues: Gnosticism and the Blues in Toni Morrison's Jazz
A sociological and literary perspective of the novel.
Ownership and
the Loss of Communal Ties in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye
Scholarly paper on themes in this Morrison novel.
Afterword: Classroom Issues in Teaching a New Canon
Index of Authors