On-line resources in American Literature


Bibliographies and On-Line Texts:

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide
An Ongoing Online Project ŠPaul P. Reuben
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/alpha.html
This site has extensive articles, bibliography, and biography resources for American writers; the site is searchable by author.

American Literature Sites, courtesy of Gonzaga University:
http://www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/sites.htm
This site also has a link to information on American literary movements, American authors, and a time line.


Sites related to individual authors:

William Bradford 
Pilgrim Hall Museum Site on William Bradford

Ann Bradstreet
Selected Poetry of Anne Bradstreet, from the University of Toronto 
American Literature on the Web: Anne Bradstreet

Edward Taylor
Fire and Ice: Puritan and Reformed Writing

Jonathan Edwards
JonathanEdwards.com--the world's largest Jonathan Edwards site

Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin: A Documentary History 

Thomas Jefferson
The Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress

Thomas Paine 
Thomas Paine National Historical Association

Philip Freneau
Teacher's Guide to Freneau

Washington Irving
Early American Fiction Page: Washington Irving

James Fenimore Cooper
"Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses," by Mark Twain 

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Guide to Resources on Emerson and Transcendentalism 

Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau Society Home Page 

Walt Whitman
  Walt Whitman's Notebooks, at the Library of Congress

William Cullen Bryant
Matthew Brady's portrait of Bryant 

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Links to his collected poetry online 

John Greenleaf Whittier
American Literature on the Web: John Greenleaf Whittier 

Oliver Wendell Holmes
Selected poetry of Oliver Wendell Holmes 

Edgar Allan Poe
A Poe Webliography 

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Texts and Resources on Nathaniel Hawthorne 

Herman Melville
The Life and Works of  Herman Melville 

Harriet Beecher Stowe 
The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 

Frederick Douglass
More chapters of Douglass's autobiography


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