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Reference Resources

Collective Resources

• See also: Literature in English
• Outline of American Literature, Kathryn VanSpanckeren, Department of State, December 2006
• PAL: Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide An Ongoing Project, Paul P. Reuben, California State University, Stanislaus
• Colonial North America, Internet Modern History Sourcebook
• Early Americas Digital Archives, University of Maryland
• American literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, Online Book Page, University of Pennsylvania
• Electronic Texts in American Studies, DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Bibliographies

• Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from its Discovery to the Present Time, Joseph Sabin, Wilberforce Eames, and Robert William Glenroie Vail, Bibliographical Society of America, 1875
• Bibliotheca americana : catalogue of American publications, including reprints and original works, from 1820-1848, inclusive, compiled and arranged by O.A. Roorbach, New York: O.A. Roorbach, 1849
• Gowan's bibliotheca americana, William Gowans, New York: W. Gowans, 1845
• A list of early American imprints belonging to the library of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Samuel A. Green, Cambridge: J. Wilson and Son, 1895
• American authors, 1795-1895 : a bibliography of first and notable editions chronologically arranged with notes, Patrick Kevin Foley, Walter Leon Sawyer, Boston: Printed for subscribers, 1897

Biographies

• A compendium of American literature; chronologically arranged, with biographical sketches of the authors, Charles Dexter Cleveland, Philadelphia, E. C. & J. Biddle, 1858
• Heralds of American literature; a group of patriot writers of the revolutionary and national periods, Annie Russell Marble, Chicago: University Press, 1907

Curricular and Teaching Resources

• EDSITEment: American Literature Lessons — 19th century, National Endowment for the Humanities
• Norton Anthology of American Literature, 7th edition, companion web site
• American Literature, Federal Resources for Education Excellence

Encyclopedias

• The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes, via Project Bartleby
• All American: Literature, History, and Culture, Mark Canada, University of North Carolina, Pembroke
• Cyclopædia of American literature, Evert Augustus Duyckinck, New York: C. Scribner, 1856

Indexes and Databases

• National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections, from the Library of Congress

Organizations and Associations

• American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
• American Studies Association
• Society of Early Americanists

Serials

• See also: Literature in English
• Periodicals: The Nineteenth Century in Print, American Memory
• UM MoA Journal Collection
• American Studies Journal, 2007 forward, full-text
• Putnam's Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science and Art, full-text, Volumes 1-10 (1853-1857), 11-16 (1868-1870)
• Studies in Bibliography, 1948 forward, full-text

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Authors and Works

Collections

• A Celebration of Women Writers, biographical and bibliographical information, University of Pennsylvania
• Mississippi Writers Page, Internet Guide to Mississippi Writers, Ole Miss

Pre-1800

• Pilgrims New Plymouth Colony, Making of America Books
• Puritans, Making of America Books
• The Bay Psalm book : being a facsimile reprint of the first edition, printed by Stephen Daye at Cambridge, in New England in 1640 (1903)
• The New England primer : containing the assembly's catechism ; the account of the burning of John Rogers ; a dialogue between Christ, a youth, and the devil ; and various other useful and instructive matter ; adorned with cuts, with a historical introduction, Heman Humphrey, Worcester : S.A. Howland, 1830
• The New England primer : a reprint of the earliest known edition ; with many facsimiles and reproductions; and an historical introduction, Paul Leicester Ford, New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1899
• Anne Bradstreet Archive, Ferris State University
• Selected Poetry of Anne Bradstreet (ca. 1612-1672), Representative Poetry On-line, University of Toronto
• John Cotton: The Antinomian Calvinist, Gregory Allen Selmon, PhD dissertation, Vanderbilt University, 2008
• Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes in either England ..., John Cotton, 1656, NYPL Digital Gallery
• A Brief Statement of the Sufferings of Mary Dyer: Occasioned by the Society ..., Mary M. Dyer, Boston: William S. Spear, 1816
• Biography of Jonathan Edwards, with links to full-text works, Christian Classics Ethereal Library
• Magnalia Christi Americana: Or, The Ecclesiastical History of New-England ..., Cotton Mather, S. Andrus and son, 1855 via Google Books
• The Wonders of the Invisible World. Observations as Well Historical as Theological, upon the Nature, the Number, and the Operations of the Devils, Cotton Mather, 1693 via DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska, Lincoln
• Diary, Increase Mather, March, 1675 - December, 1676, together with extracts from another diary by him, 1674-1687, and introduction and anti notes, by Samual A. Green, Cambridge: J. Wilson and son, University Press, 1900
• [Works by Mary Rowlandson], via archive.org
• The Selling of Joseph: A Memorial, Samuel Sewell
• John Wheelwright: His writings, including his Fast-day sermon, 1637; and his Mercurius americanus, 1645; with a paper upon the genuineness of the Indian deed of 1629, and a memoir, Charles H. Bell, Boston: Printed for the Prince society, 1876
• Memoir of Rev. Michael Wigglesworth : author of The day of doom, John Ward Dean, Albany, N.Y.: J. Munsell, 1871
• The day of doom; or, A poetical description of the great and last judgment, Michael Wigglesworth
• Roger Williams, Roger Williams National Memorial, US Parks Service

Nineteenth Century

• Nietz Full-Text Collection: Nineteenth Century Schoolbooks, University of Pittsburgh
• Articles & Papers About Cooper, James Fenimore Cooper Society Website
• Dickinson Electronic Archives
• Emily Dickinson Collection, Jones Library, Amherst
• Nathaniel Hawthorne, The International Magazine of Literature, Art, and Science, volume 0003, issue 2, May 1851, 156-160
• Nathaniel Hawthorne, [reviews of House of Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance,] The North American review volume 76, issue 158, January 1853, 227-249
• The Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Anthony Trollope, The North American review, volume 129, issue 274, September 1879, 203-223
• Personal Recollections Of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Horatio Bridge, Harper's new monthly magazine, volume 84, issue 502, March, 1892, 510-522
• Early Letters by Various Correspondents to Henry James, Houghton Library, Harvard
• The Henry James E-Journal
• William Holmes McGuffey Museum, Miami University, Ohio
• McGuffey's Eclectic Readers, University of Pittsburgh
• Edgar Allan Poe Page, Penn State's Electronic Classics Series
• An inquiry into the character and tendency of the American colonization, and American anti-slavery societies, William Jay, Samuel E. Sewall, New York: Leavitt, Lord & co.; Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1835
• Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture, University of Virginia

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Genre

Poetry

• American Verse Project, University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) and the University of Michigan Press
• Poetry: The Nineteenth Century in Print, American Memory
• Poet Index, Representative Poetry Online, University of Toronto
• Poets.org, Academy of American Poets

Prose

• The female prose writers of America. With portraits, biographical notices, and specimens of their writings, John S. Hart, Philadelphia: E. H. Butler, 1857
• Wright American Fiction, 1851- 1875, Indiana University
• The American Novel, Carl Van Doren, 1940, via Google Books
• Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls, Stanford

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Geography / Place

• The New England poets; a study of Emerson, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Whittier, Lowell, Holmes, William Cranston Lawton, New York : The Macmillan company: London, Macmillan & Co., 1898
• The poets of Connecticut; with biographical sketches, Ed. by Rev. Charles W. Everest, Hartford: Case, Tiffany and Burnham, 1844
• The Philadelphia book: or, Specimens of metropolitan literature, James Hall, Philadelphia: Key and Biddle, 1836
• The representative authors of Maryland, from the earliest time to the present day, with biographical notes and comments upon their work, Henry E. Shepherd, New York: Whitehall, 1911
• Poets and poetry of Indiana; a representative collection of the poetry of Indiana during the first hundred years of its history as territory and state, 1800 to 1900, Comp. and ed. by Benjamin S. Parker and Enos B. Heiney, New York: Silver, Burdett and company, [1900]
• Check list of Chicago ante-fire imprints, 1851-1871, Historical Records Survey, Chicago : The Historical records survey 1938
• Southern literature from 1579-1895; a comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader, Louise Manly, Richmond: B. F. Johnson Pub. Co., 1895

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Literature, Culture and History

• Collaborative Bibliographies in American Literature and Culture Studies, Georgetown University
• Literary Movements, Washington State University
• American Transcendentalism Web, Virginia Commonwealth University
• A history of American literature during the colonial period, 1607-1765, Moses Coit Tyler, New York, London: Putnam, 1878
• Literary culture in early New England, 1620-1730, Thomas Goddard Wright, and Mabel Hyde (Kingsbury) Wright, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1920
• Cultural Readings: Colonization and Print in the Americas, Library Exhibition, University of Pennsylvania
• Studies in Classic American Literature, D.H. Lawrence

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Themes

Religion

• The Puritan Tradition and American Memory, Scott Atkins, Capitol Project, American Studies group, University of Virginia
• Antinomianism, New Advent, Catholic Encyclopedia
• Antinomianism in the colony of Massachusetts Bay, 1636-1638. Including the Short story and other documents, Charles Francis Adams, ed., Boston: The Prince Society, 1894
• Religion and the Founding of the American Republic, Library of Congress
• Religion: The Nineteenth Century in Print, American Memory
• American poets and their theology, Augustus Hopkins Strong, Philadelphia: Griffith and Rowland Press, 1916
• Religious thought in the greater American poets, Elmer James Bailey, Boston: Pilgrim Press, 1922
• Representations of Catholicism in American Literature, 1820-1920, Mary Ann Rygiel, PhD dissertation, Auburn University

Witchcraft

• Witchcraft Collection, Cornell University Library
• Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project, University of Virginia
• The wonders of the invisible world. Being an account of the tryals of several witches lately executed in New-England By Cotton Mather, D. D. To which is added, A farther account of the tryals of the New-England witches. By Increase Mather, London, J. R. Smith, 1862

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