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American Literature

This page offers a selective list of resources on American literature and culture available for free and through subscription from Johns Hopkins University MSE Library.

For two general literary Internet sites, see the authoritative Voice of the Shuttle or Jack Lynch's solid Literary Resources on the Net.

If you have any questions, comments, or recommendations, please email Don Juedes, Librarian for English and American Literature.

Selected Library of Congress Subject Headings (Search JHU Catalog)

• American Literature
• American Fiction
• Authors, American
• American Literature -- Women Authors

Selected Hopkins Resources

African-American Poetry, 1760-1900 (All US JHU)

American Drama, 1714-1915 (All US JHU)

American Periodicals Series Online, 1740-1900 (All US JHU)

American Poetry, 1600-1900 (All US JHU)

Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (All US JHU)

ArchivesUSA (All US JHU)

Arts and Humanities Citation Index via Web of Science (All US JHU)

Black Drama, 1850 to Present. (All US JHU)

C19: Nineteenth Century Index (All JHU (incl. International))

Columbia Grangers World of Poetry (All US JHU)

Early American Fiction 1789-1875 (All US JHU)

Early encounters in North America peoples, cultures, and the environment. (All US JHU)

Evans Digital Edition (1639-1800) (All US JHU)

Humanities Full Text (also part of OmniFile full text mega) (All US JHU)

Index to 19th-century American Art Periodicals (All US JHU)

MLA International Bibliography (All JHU (incl. International))

Literature Online (LION) (All US JHU)

Nineteenth-Century Fiction (All US JHU)

Nineteenth Century Masterfile. Series I. (All US JHU)

North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories (All US JHU)

North American Women’s Drama (All US JHU)

North American Women's Letters and Diaries (All US JHU)

Twentieth-Century African American Poetry (All US JHU)

Twentieth-Century American Poetry (All US JHU)

Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875 (All US JHU)

Selected Journals

• African American Review
• American Historical Review
• American Imago
• American Literature
• American Quarterly
• American Quarterly

• Black American Literature Forum
• Henry James Review
• Modern Fiction Studies
• Modern/Modernity
• Nineteenth Century Literature
• Postmodern Culture

Selected Internet Resources

• American Literature on the Web

• American Studies (UVA)

• American Studies Web (Georgetown U)

• American Verse Project

• CHILDE Web Site

• Covers, Titles, & Tables: The Formation of American Literary Canons

• Documenting the American South: Southern Experience in 19th-Century America (UNC, Chapel Hill)

• Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls (Stanford University)

• First Person Narratives from the American South, 1860-1920 (Library of Congress)

• From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection 1822-1909 (Library of Congress)

• Making of America (University of Michigan)

• 19th-Century American Women Writers Web (Tyler Steben)

• Literary Movements

• Music for the Nation, American Sheet Music 1820-1869, 1870-1885 (Library of Congress)

• Nineteenth Century Authors

• Online Literary Criticism Collection

• Perspectives in American Literature

• Post Modernism is/in Fiction

• Research Society for American Periodicals

• Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860 (Library of Congress)

• Wright American Fiction