Mark Twain in His
Times (Stephen Railton, UVA)
Forget
What You Know of Twain, Then Delight in Your Rediscovery [Edward
Rothstein, New York
Times, Sept. 17, 2010]
"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)
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
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 3, Chapters XI to XV
(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
Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932)
Sarah Orne Jewett
(1849-1909) (Donna Campbell)
The Sarah Orne Jewett
Text Project (Introduction to Jewett, Texts & Criticism)
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 "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)The Modernist
Journals Project
A Brief
Guide to Modernism (Poets.org)
Becoming
Modern: America in the 1920s (National Humanities Center)
Beinecke Library exhibit on American Women in the Arts
Charles
Sheeler and Paul Strand, Manhatta (1921)
A short silent film (9-10 minutes, with titles
from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass)
Modernism and
the Modern Novel
T. S. Eliot at the MAPS siteImagism (1912-1917)
“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":
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
The Waste Land
TSE reads The Waste Land (Harper Audio, via IMS)
T. S. Eliot (Poets.org)
What the Thunder Said: a T. S. Eliot site
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/
Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
- 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) (MJP)
- H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) (American Women in the Arts)
- Harriet Monroe (American Women in the Arts)
The Figure 5 in Gold by Charles Demuth (Metropolitan Museum of Art)The Armory Show
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 at 100: Artworks (New-York Historical Society)
The 1913 Armory Show (UVA)
1. Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase (UVA)
2. Duchamp's
Nude Descending a Staircase (The
Armory Show at 100) [Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending
a Staircase (1912) was the most controversial work
in the Armory Show.]
Megan Fort, "The kind of man I'm giving the show for." A blog post on acquiring for the show another controversial work, Constantin Brancusi's Mlle. Pogany. [The Armory Show at 100: Modern Art and Revolution New-York Historical Society. blog post 24 Oct. 2013. Web.]
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
Chapter 1 of Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon (1932)
E.
E. Cummings (Poets.org)
E. E. Cummings
(Poetry Foundation)
Langston Hughes at 100 (Beinecke Library, Yale University)
Langston Hughes, "Christ
in Alabama" [Contempo 1.13 (1 Dec. 1931)] (UNC)
Kevin Young, On
Langston Hughes's "The Weary Blues" [Foreword to the 2015 reissue of
Hughes' book, The Weary Blues (1926)]
Podcast: "When the Weary Blues Met Jazz." (Poetry Foundation)
Langston
Hughes at the MAPS site
Langston Hughes, "The Negro Artist
and the Racial Mountain" (World History Archives). See also this version:
"The
Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" (MAPS)
Harlem Renaissance - A Brief Introduction (PAL)
Alain Locke, "Enter the New Negro." [Survey Graphic (March 1925)] (National Humanities Center). This issue of the magazine, titled "Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro," was later "expanded into an anthology, The New Negro, which became the manifesto of the Harlem Renaissance." This article became the introduction to that anthology.
Alain Locke, "Art or Propaganda?" [Harlem 1.1 (November 1928)] (National Humanities Center)
Alain Locke on Negro Spirituals ["Alain LeRoy Locke," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (23 March 2012). Web.]
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
Excerpt from Fitzgerald's
"The
Crack-Up" (PBS)
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)
Whitman
Song of Myself Study text (American Transcendentalism Web)
Whitman
and Transcendentalism (Thoreau visits Whitman in Brooklyn)
(American Transcendentalism Web)
Emily Dickinson International Society: http://www.emilydickinson.org/edis/index.html
The Emily Dickinson Journal: (Project Muse: to access off-campus, go to the GVSU library catalog).
Emily Dickinson Links: http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/dickinson.htm
PAL Emily dickinson page: https://www.paulreuben.website/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/