Resources on American Literature
American Authors 1600-1900
Publication
- book, 1938
- Kunitz, Stanley J., and Howard Haycraft, eds. American Authors 1600-1900:
A Biographical Dictionary of American Literature. New York: H.W. Wilson,
1938.
- PS21 .K8
Contents
- Jonathan Edwards
- T.D. English
- Herman Melville
- Frank Stockton
- R.H. Stoddard
- hundreds of others
Entry
- biographical sketch
- principal works
- secondary works
American Literary Scholarship
Publication
- serial, 1965-
- American Literary Scholarship. Ed. Gary Scharnhorst. Durham:
Duke University Press, 1995.
- PS3 .A47
Contents
- Annual survey of critical books and articles written about American
authors
- Chapters on major writers and periods
- Index of authors
- Index of subjects
Entry
- trends: Puritan studies are down, while studies of Enlightenment writers
are up
- criticism on authors
Contemporary Literary Critics
Publication
- book, 1982
- Borklund, Elmer. Contemporary Literary Critics. 2nd ed. New
York: Macmillan, 1982.
Contents
- Leon Edel
- F.O. Matthiessen
- Richard Chase
- dozens of others
Entry
- vital statistics: birthdate, positions
- publications
- review of work
Fifteen American Authors Before 1900
Publication
- book, 1984
- Herbert, Earl P., and Robert A. Rees, eds. Fifteen American Authors
Before 1900. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984.
Contents
- Henry Adams
- William Cullen Bryant
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Stephen Crane
- Emily Dickinson
- Jonathan Edwards
- Benjamin Franklin
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- William Dean Howells
- Washington Irving
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- James Russell Lowell
- Frank Norris
- Edward Taylor
- John Greenleaf Whittier
Entry
- bibliographical works
- editions, translations
- criticism
- biographies
- criticism
- source studies
- influence studies
- works on aesthetic concerns
- genre studies
- cultural studies
The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Publication
- book, 1995
- Hart, James D. The Oxford Companion to American Literature.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
- PS21 .H3 1995
Contents
- American authors, such as Cotton Mather, Kate Chopin, Ernest Hemingway,
and Amy Tan
- Historical persons and events, such as Andrew Jackson and the French
and Indian Wars
- Literary clubs, such as the Saturday Club and the Junto
- Major literary characters, such as the Sartoris family and John Henry
- Major poems, short stories, novels, essays, and other works, such as
Evangeline, The Fall of the House of Usher, O Pioneers!,
Nature, and Black Boy
- Literary movements, such as Transcendentalism and Naturalism
- Important periodicals, such as The Dial, The Liberator and
The Atlantic Monthly
- Real and fictional places of significance in American literature, such
as Harlem and Yoknapatawpha County
- Major literary critics, such as R.W.B. Lewis and Perry Miller
- Other terms and tidbits, such as Mingo, Millerites, the Wildnerness
Road, and winners of Pulitzer Prizes
Reference Guide to American Literature
Publication
- book, 1987
- Kirkpatrick, D.L., ed. Reference Guide to American Literature.
2nd ed. Chicago: St. James Press, 1987. PS21 .R43
Contents
- Introduction
- Writers
- Works
- Chronology
- Title index
Entry
- vital statistics: birthdate, schools, jobs
- publications: collections, poetry, fiction, nonfiction
- critical studies
- overview: genre, style and literary theory, biography, themes, significance
The Almanac of American Letters
Publication
- book, 1981
- Nelson, Randy F. The Almanac of American Letters. Los Altos,
Calif.: William Kaufmann, 1981. PS 92 .N37
Contents
- Facts and Figures: first press in each state, literary clubs
- Calendar of birthdates
- Names: sobriquets, pseudonyms
- Collector's Items
- Bestsellers
- Losers: books that did not win the Pulitzer Prize, worst sellers
- Banned in Boston and Elsewhere
- Quotations
- Realities behind Evangeline, Charlotte Temple, and other
works
- Hoaxes, Forgeries, Frauds, Thefts
- Phenomena
- Anecdotes
- Chronology
- Bibliography
- Index
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