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/

Twain and Race:

“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)

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 (To find an annotated text of My Ántonia, click first on “Writings,” then on My Ántonia.)

Modernism Links

The Modernist Journals Project

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

Carl Sandburg (MAPS)

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

Robert Frost

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

Ezra Pound

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

T. S. Eliot

What the Thunder Said: a T. S. Eliot site: http://www.whatthethundersaid.org/

T. S. Eliot at the MAPS site: http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/eliot/eliot.htm

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

“The Prufrock Papers” (hypertext Prufrock): http://www.usask.ca/english/prufrock/

Texts of Eliot poems, with a brief biography (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)

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:

Webster's Imagism page

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

Modernism and Imagism (Al Filreis, Chapter 2)

Petals on a Wet Black Bough: American Modernist Writers and the Orient

Amy Lowell's Notes "On Imagism"

Some Imagist Poets: An Anthology (1915)

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

Harriet Monroe (American Women in the Arts)

Amy Lowell:

Amy Lowell at the MAPS site:
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/amylowell/lowell.htm

Lowell's contributions to Some Imagist Poets (1915):
http://www.geocities.com/~bblair/sip15_lowell.htm

Wallace Stevens

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

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

William Carlos Williams

The Figure 5 in Gold by Charles Demuth (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Another image of the same.

W.C. W. at the MAPS site
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/williams/williams.htm

W.C. W. at the Academy of American poets site: http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/119

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:

The Hemingway Society's "Virtual Hemingway," a links page: http://www.hemingwaysociety.org/#virthem.asp

Hemingway's Paris: An Online Seminar: http://www.mala.bc.ca/~lanes/english/hemngway/seminar.htm

Hemingway's Life in Paris: http://www.mala.bc.ca/~lanes/english/hemngway/ehlife.htm

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

Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure (companion ot PBS show): http://www.pbs.org/hemingwayadventure/michigan.html

The Hemingway Resource Center: http://www.lostgeneration.com/hrc.htm

Picturing Hemingway (National Portrait Gallery): http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/hemingway/index.htm

Hemingway's ties with Kansas City, including links to his articles at the Kansas City Star: http://www.kansascity.com/hemingway/

Marianne Moore

Marianne Moore at the MAPS site: http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/moore/moore.htm
- Interpretations of "Silence": http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/moore/silence.htm
- Interpretations of "Poetry": http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/moore/poetry.htm
Marianne Moore at the Academy of American Poets
Portrait of Marianne Moore and her mother (National Portrait Gallery)

E. E. Cummings:

Spring, the Journal of the E. E Cummings Society: http://www.gvsu.edu/english/cummings/Index.htm

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

E. E. Cummings at Representative Poetry Online: http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/86.html

EEC at the MAPS site: http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/cummings/cummings.htm

Langston Hughes:

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:
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hughes/hughes.htm

Hughes, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain"
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hughes/mountain.htm

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

Harlem Renaissance - A Brief Introduction (PAL)

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)