ENG 330 American Literature (Lisa Smith)

Organized into ten chapters on the major literary and historical perspectives, cycles, or movements in American literature; each chapter has an Introduction, a Selected Bibliography, and a list of representative authors.

pages maintained by Jack Lynch of Rutgers

"Considered the most important work of literary history and criticism ever published, the Cambridge History contains over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing." Arranged chronologically, and includes an index to the chapters in each volume, as well as an index to the bibliographies in each chapter.

Includes link to video: William Bradford, Mayflower Compact; plus links to other sites

Beginning in the 16th century, papers produced by the Winthrop and related families, encompasses letters and diaries, memoranda and legal documents, and John Winthrop’s journal/history of the colony in Boston.

Poetry Foundation website

Resources to support inquiry into the life, writings, and legacy of Jonathan Edwards

Resources to explore his life and achievement

Biography plus links to full text of selected works.

Information about Poe's life plus selected online works,

The Hawthorne in Salem Website was created and is being maintained by North Shore Community College with grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Community College Humanities Association.

Links to information on the life and career of Emerson, exhaustive lists of online versions of his writings, critical analysis of his writings, and more.

A website dedicated to one of the most important writers of the nineteenth-century United States and one of the leading personalities in New England Transcendentalism, offering easy access to the large collection of his works, biography, quotes, links to other resources, and more.

Informational web site containing full-text of Kate Chopin's writings, listings of scholarship and events

This project consists of a collection of approximately 37,000 digitized pages. These items include correspondence, diaries, manuscript drafts, articles, reviews, clippings, photographs, and drawings documenting Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s extensive output as a writer ...

Information about the Society and Stephan Crane, including online works and biographical information.

Information about the Society and Edith Wharton, including online works and biographical information.

Information about the life and work of Flannery O'Connor who was born in Savannah, Georgia.

Official site of the Toni Morrison Society which aims to study the life and works of Toni Morrison.