19th Century American Literature

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19th Century American Literature

This page offers a selective list of resources on 19th-century Anerican 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 -- 19th Century
• American Literature -- 19th Century -- Periodicals
• American Fiction -- 19th Century
• Authors, American -- 19th Century
• American Literature -- Southwest

Selected Hopkins Resources

Selected Journals

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

• American Quarterly
• Black American Literature Forum
• Henry James Review
• Nineteenth Century Literature

Selected Internet Resources

• The American Varriety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment 1870-1920 (Library of Congress)

• America's First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotype Portraits and Views (Library of Congress)

• CHILDE Web Site

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

• Emily Dickinson Complete Poems

• Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls (Stanford University)

• Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

• 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)

• The Transcendentalists (Jone Johnson Lewis)

• The Henry James Scholar's Guide to Web Sites (Richard Hathaway, SUNY New Paltz)

• Making of America (University of Michigan)

• Nathaniel Hawthorne (Eric Eldred)

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

• Mark Twain in his Times

• Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn: Text, Illustrations, and Early Reviews (Virginia H. Cope, UVA)

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

• Nineteenth Century Authors

• Perspectives in American Literature
   19th Century to 1865 and Romanticism /
   19th Century to 1865 and Transcendentalism /
   Late 19th Century and Realism /
   Late 19th Century and Naturalism

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

• The Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive

• Walt Whitman Notebooks (Library of Congress)