American Literature Links

American Literature Links II

History of American Thought (Links at pragmatism.org)

Huck Finn's Education (1884)

Mark Twain (1835–1910) and Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens):

Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) (Donna Campbell’s links page)

Mark Twain in His Times (Stephen Railton, UVA)

Mark Twain’s Interactive Scrapbook: (A biography; PBS)

Mark Twain at Large: His Travels Here and Abroad (UC Berkeley)

Twain Web: http://www.twainweb.net/

Forget What You Know of Twain, Then Delight in Your Rediscovery [Edward Rothstein, New York Times, Sept. 17, 2010]

Twain and Race:

"New Edition of Huckleberry Finn Will Eliminate Offensive Words" [Mark Memmott, NPR Culture blog, January 4, 2011]

"Publisher Tinkers with Twain" [Julie Bosman, New York Times, January 4, 2011]

"For John Ridley, The N-Word Is A Line In The Sand" [NPR, August 20, 2010]

“Was Jim of Huckleberry Finn a Hero?” (NPR)

“Masterpiece or Racist Trash? Bridgewater Students Enter the Debate over Huckleberry” (Barbara Apstein)

Review of Terry Oggel’s new edition of Twain’s essay “The United States of Lyncherdom”: http://www.twainweb.net/reviews/lyncherdom.html

Huckleberry Finn:

Huckleberry Finn homepage (Texts, Illustrations, advertisements, Twain's book tour, etc. Stephen Railton, UVA)

Brief Quotations: Critics on Huck Finn (Donna Campbell)

"Sam Clemens at the Cotton Club: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (Bill Benzon) [Excellent blog post sorting out some of the complications of the ending of the novel. From The Valve.]

Julia A. Moore, The Sweet Singer of Michigan, 1847–1920 (see Huck Finn, chapter 17)

Illustrations to Huckleberry Finn:

Illustrating Huckleberry Finn: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/huckfinn/hucillhp.html

(with a “Gallery of Illustrations”): http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/huckfinn/huckpix/huckpix.html

Representing Jim: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/huckfinn/jiminpix.html

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn slide show: (UC Berkeley)

E. W. Kemble Illustrations in context: Huckleberry Finn Part 1, Chapters I to V (Project Gutenberg)

E. W. Kemble Illustrations in context: Huckleberry Finn, Part 2, Chapters VI to X (Project Gutenberg)

E. W. Kemble Illustrations in context: Huckleberry Finn, Part 3, Chapters XI to XV (Project Gutenberg)

E. W. Kemble Illustrations in context: Huckleberry Finn, Part 4, Chapters XVI to XX (Project Gutenberg)

E. W. Kemble Illustrations in context: Huckleberry Finn, Part 5, Chapters XXI to XXV (Project Gutenberg)

E. W. Kemble Illustrations in context: Huckleberry Finn, Part 6, Chapters XXVI to XXX (Project Gutenberg)

E. W. Kemble Illustrations in context: Huckleberry Finn, Part 7, Chapters XXXI to XXXV (Project Gutenberg)

E. W. Kemble Illustrations in context: Huckleberry Finn, Part 8 Chapters XXXVI to The Last (Project Gutenberg)

Realism , Regionalism, and Local Color

American Realism - A Brief Introduction (PAL)

Realism in American Literature, 1860-1890 (Donna Campbell)

Regionalism and Local Color Fiction, 1865-1895 (Donna Campbell)

Plantation Tradition in Local Color Fiction (Donna Campbell)

Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) and Uncle Remus

Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) (Donna Campbell)

Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings (1881 edition; UNC)

Illustration to the Tar Baby story (UNC)

Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932)

Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) (Donna Campbell)

Charles Waddell Chesnutt (PAL)

The Charles W. Chesnutt Digital Archive (Berea College)

Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)

Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) (Donna Campbell)

Sarah Orne Jewett Text Project (Introduction to Jewett, Texts & Criticism--Coe College)

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)

"Literary Women In Their Homes II — Mary Eleanor Wilkins" (From The Ladies' Home Journal, August 1892 )

Cover of A New England Nun and Other Stories (1891)

Kate Chopin (1850-1904)

Text of "At The 'Cadian Ball" (UNC)

Radio play of "At The 'Cadian Ball" (http://www.scribblingwomen.org/)

Kate Chopin "At the 'Cadian Ball" (characters, setting, questions, and further reading)

Kate Chopin "The Storm" (characters, setting, questions, and further reading)

Kate Chopin (1850-1904) (Donna Campbell)

Kate Chopin International Society

Henry James (1843-1916) & Daisy Miller

Henry James (Donna Campbell, WSU)

Reading Questions on Henry James's Daisy Miller (Donna Campbell, WSU)

Text of Daisy Miller (with 1892 illustrations)

Willa Cather (1873-1947)

Willa Cather Archive
Annotated text of My Ántonia (WCA)
Text of "Peter" (1892) [An early Cather story about the suicide of a Bohemian immigrant]
"A Talk with Miss Cather" (Webster County Argus, 29 September 1921)
"Willa Siebert Cather" (Bookman, 3 May 1921)
Ted Kooser on Cather’s "transparency" (Big Read blog)

Modernism Links

The Modernist Journals Project

A Brief Guide to Modernism (Poets.org)

Beinecke Library exhibit on American Women in the Arts

Modernism and the Modern Novel: http://elab.eserver.org/hfl0255.html

Christopher Witcombe's Modernism site (mostly about visual art): http://witcombe.sbc.edu/modernism/

Little Magazines and Modernism: http://littlemagazines.davidson.edu/
[“THIS WEBSITE has been compiled by undergraduates at Davidson College enrolled in the course ENG487: The Web of Modernism. This site is maintained by Suzanne W. Churchill, Associate Professor of English, and hosted by Davidson College.”]

Paris Review Interviews (Alphabetical by subject: among those interviewed are Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and Ernest Hemingway)

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)

Carl Sandburg (MAPS)

Carl Sandburg at Poets.org (Academy of American Poets)

Selected Poetry of Carl Sandburg (RPO)

Robert Frost (1874-1963)

Robert Frost page (MAPS)

Interpretations of "Mending Wall" (MAPS)
Interpretations of "Home Burial" (MAPS)
Interpretations of "Birches" (MAPS)

Amy Lowell’s review of Robert Frost’s first two volumes of poetry (The New Republic, 1915)
Robert Frost reading his poems (Internet Multicasting Service)
Robert Frost at Poets.org (Academy of American Poets)
Selected Poetry of Robert Frost (RPO)

Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

Ezra Pound At MAPS [Includes "A Retrospect" (Pound's imagist theories)]
Pound's Collected Poetry Recordings (Penn Sound)
KYBERNEKYIA: A Hypervortext of Ezra Pound's Canto LXXXI :
SUNY Buffalo Pound page
Academy of American Poets Pound page
Selected Poetry of Ezra Loomis Pound (RPO)

H. D. [Hilda Doolittle] (1886-1961)

H.D. at MAPS
H.D. at Poets.org
Selected Poetry of H. D. (RPO)
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) (American Women in the Arts)
H.D. at Imagists.org

T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)

T. S. Eliot at the MAPS site

Marjorie Perloff on the "Avant-Garde Eliot" (PDF file)

“The Prufrock Papers” [Hypertext Prufrock with the text of Prufrock and Other Observations (1917), reviews, and TSE's criticism]

Selected Poetry of Thomas Stearns Eliot (Representative Poetry Online, Ian Lancashire, U of Toronto)

"Preludes": http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/786.html

"Rhapsody on a Windy Night": http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/787.html

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock": http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/781.html

The Waste Land: http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/790.html

TSE reads The Waste Land (Harper Audio, via IMS)

T. S. Eliot (Poets.org)

What the Thunder Said: a T. S. Eliot site

Prof. Stephen Railton's T. S. Eliot page

Exploring The Waste Land (R A. Parker)

The T. S. Eliot Society (USA)

An Interactive Waste Land Site (too many pop up ads but an interesting hypertext approach): http://eliotswasteland.tripod.com/

Imagism (1912-1917)

Webster's Imagism page

A Brief Guide to Imagism (Poets.org)

Petals on a Wet Black Bough: American Modernist Writers and the Orient (Beinecke Library Exhibition, Yale University)

Amy Lowell's Notes "On Imagism" (MAPS)

Imagists.org (Pages on Richard Aldington and H.D., with links to Pound and Amy Lowell pages)

Some Imagist Poets: An Anthology (1915)

H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) (American Women in the Arts)

Harriet Monroe (American Women in the Arts)

Amy Lowell (1874-1925)

Amy Lowell at the MAPS site

Amy Lowell's Poems in Some Imagist Poets: An Anthology (1915)

Amy Lowell on the cover of TIME magazine (1925)

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955 )

Wallace Stevens at the MAPS site

Wallace Stevens' "Anecdote of a Jar" (Al Filreis)

Criticism of Stevens' "Anecdote of a Jar" at the MAPS site

Black on Black 13: Stevens’ “Thirteen Ways,” illustrated and recited

Selected Poetry of Wallace Stevens (RPO)

William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)

The Figure 5 in Gold by Charles Demuth (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

W.C. W. at the MAPS site

W.C. W. at the Academy of American poets (Poets.org)

W.C. W. reads "To Elsie" (Poets.org)

Selected Poetry of William Carlos Williams (RPO)

Al Filreis' W. C. W. links:
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/home.html#w

The Armory Show

The 1913 Armory Show (UVA)

Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase (1912)

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

The Hemingway Society's "Virtual Hemingway," a links page

Hemingway's Paris: An Online Seminar [Includes a Timeline of Ernest Hemingway in Paris]

Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park, IL (Hem's childhood home)

Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure (companion to PBS show):

The Hemingway Resource Center

Picturing Hemingway (National Portrait Gallery)

Hemingway and Kansas City, including links to his articles at the Kansas City Star

Chapter 1 of Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon (1932)

Marianne Moore (1887-1972)

Marianne Moore at the MAPS site
- Interpretations of "Poetry" (MAPS)
- Interpretations of "Silence" (MAPS)
Marianne Moore at the Academy of American Poets
Al Filreis on Marianne Moore's letters in wartime, "Mending the Break in Time"
Portrait of Marianne Moore and her mother (National Portrait Gallery)

E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)

Spring, the Journal of the E. E Cummings Society :

The Enormous Room (Links, notes, and study questions)

EEC at the MAPS site

E. E. Cummings (Poets.org)

E. E. Cummings (Poetry Foundation)

A short biography of Buffalo Bill (PBS)

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

Langston Hughes at 100 (Beinecke Library, Yale University)

Langston Hughes: A Voice for All People (University of Kansas Library)

Langston Hughes at the MAPS site

Langston Hughes, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain"

Langston Hughes (Poets.org)

Salon.com article
http://www.salon.com/audio/poetry/2001/02/15/langston_hughes/

Harlem Renaissance - A Brief Introduction (PAL)

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

Excerpt from Fitzgerald's "The Crack-Up" (PBS)

Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)

Elizabeth Bishop (MAPS)

Elizabeth Bishop (Poets.org)

Elizabeth Bishop (Voices & Visions)

Robert Lowell (1917-1977)

Robert Lowell (MAPS)

Robert Lowell (Poets.org)

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)

Allen Ginsberg at the MAPS site

Ginsberg reading Howl, Parts I & II (Poets.org)

Ginsberg reading "A Supermarket in California" (Poets.org)

Archive of Ginsberg reading ( PennSound)

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

Whitman Song of Myself Study text (American Transcendentalism Web)

Walt Whitman Archive: http://www.whitmanarchive.org/

Criticism at the Walt Whitman Archive: http://www.whitmanarchive.org/criticism/index.html

One Life: Walt Whitman, a kosmos: http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/whitman/index.html

Revising Himself (LOC): http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/whitman-home.html

Whitman’s Notebooks (LOC): http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/whitman/index.html

Whitman and Transcendentalism (Thoreau visits Whitman in Brooklyn) (American Transcendentalism Web)

Gutenberg text of Leaves of Grass: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext98/lvgrs10.txt

PAL Walt Whitman page: http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap4/whitman.html

Walt Whitman Links: http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/whitman.htm

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

Emily Dickinson International Society: http://www.emilydickinson.org/edis/index.html

Dickinson’s herbarium: http://www.emilydickinson.org/edis/graphics/plate20.jpg

The Emily Dickinson Journal: (Project Muse: to access off-campus, go to the GVSU library catalog).

Dickinson Electronic Archive: http://www.emilydickinson.org/

Emily Dickinson Links: http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/dickinson.htm

PAL Emily dickinson page: http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap4/dickinson.html

Emily Dickinson Museum: http://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/

A New Photo of Emily Dickinson? http://www.unc.edu/~gura/dickinson/index.html

How I Met and Dated Miss Emily Dickinson: An Adventure on eBay (Philip F. Gura): http://www.common-place.org/vol-04/no-02/gura/

The National Portrait Gallery

Past Exhibitions: http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/curex12.htm

Josephine Baker, Image and Icon: http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/baker/slideshow/slideshow.html

Celebrity Caricature in America: http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/caricatures/index.htm

Sally Rand and Martha Graham: http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/caricatures/rand.htm (Vanity Fair, 1934)

Rebels: Painters and Poets of the 1950s: http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/rebels/index.htm

Eddie Cantor: http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/caricatures/cantor.htm

Environmental Writers [Links from ASLE]

Sources for Electronic texts:

Project Gutenberg
University of Virginia Digital Text Collections [some access limited]
University of Toronto English Library
Representative Poetry Online
The Bartleby Project
Renascence Editions (An Online Repository of Works Printed in English Between the Years 1477 and 1799)