American Literature


Seventeeth Century

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Eighteenth Century

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Nineteenth Century

Mark Twain in His Times

Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia 

This interpretive archive, drawn largely from the resources of the Barrett Collection, focuses on how "Mark Twain" and his works were created and defined, marketed and performed, reviewed and appreciated. The goal is to allow readers, scholars, students and teachers to see what Mark Twain and His Times said about each other, in a way that can speak to us today. Contained here are dozens of texts and manuscripts, scores of contemporary reviews and articles, hundreds of images, and many different kinds of interactive exhibits.

Walt Whitman

Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia 

Full texts of Whitman's prose and poetry, accompanied with access to the Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive, containing letters, reviews, and biographical materials.   

Wright American Fiction 1851-1875

Indiana University

This website, based on Lyle Wright's bibliography of American fiction from 1851 through 1875, contains 1752 texts by 845 authors.  

Making of America

University of Michigan

This searchable digital library of full-text primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through Reconstruction contains approximately 8500 books and 50,000 periodical articles.  

American Verse Project

University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative

This electronic archive houses volumes of American poetry produced to 1920.

 

Twentieth Century

Coming soon!

 

Twenty-First Century

Being written!


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