Landmark Literary/Critical Links

I will be updating this list of links over the rest of the semester. My aim is to be selective and choose the most useful sites for context and research. This list represents only the tip of the iceberg; to get a sense of the range of pages out there on the various authors and topics related to this course, I highly recommend that you search on your own by going to any web search engine (I think google and hotbot are the best for looking up specific things; yahoo!, excite, infoseek, lycos, and profusion.com are good if you want an overview of what's out there). Please email me with suggestions for additions to this list at bruce.simon@fredonia.edu.

Table of Contents

• Cheap Books
• Electronic Text Archives
• On Researching and Writing Well
• General Research Sites
• Literary and Cultural Studies Research Sites
• Major American Studies Sites
• On Individual Authors
• Contexts

Cheap Books

• Advanced Book Exchange
• Best Book Buys
• Lots of Literary Links

Electronic Text Archives

• Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia
• ALEX Catalogue of Online Texts, Eric Lease Morgan, North Carolina State University
• The Online Books Page, John Mark Ockerbloom, University of Pennsylvania
• African-American Studies: A Guide to Electronic Texts, Carol Rudisell, University of Delaware Library
• Literature Online Home Page, Chadwyck-Healey Ltd.
• Bartleby.com: Great Books Online

On Researching and Writing Well

• Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial, Joe Barker, University of California at Berkeley Library
• Evaluating Electronic Sources, Joan Ormondroyd, Michael Engle, and Tony Cosgrave, Cornell University Library
• The Princeton Writing Program, Princeton University
• Online Writing Lab, Purdue University
• Garbl's Writing Resources Online, Gary Larson
• The Text Doctor
• The Write Source
• Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format, Online Writing Lab, Purdue University
• MLA Format, Steve Lamos, Writers' Workshop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• A Guide for Writing Research Papers based on Modern Language Association (MLA) Documentation, Arthur C. Banks, Jr., Capital Community College
• Citing Electronic Sources, Nancy Crane, University of Vermont
• The Columbia Guide to Online Style, Janice Walker (University of South Florida) and Todd Taylor (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

General Research Sites

• Librarians' Index to the Internet, University of California Libraries
• The WWW Virtual Library
• The Electric Library
• About.com
• Research It!
• Infoplease

Literary and Cultural Studies Research Sites

• Literary Links, Reed Library, SUNY Fredonia
• Voice of the Shuttle, Alan Liu, University of California at Santa Barbara
• English Server, University of Washington
• On-Line Literary Resources, Jack Lynch, Rutgers University
• Will's Fabulous Links, Will Howarth, Princeton University
• LitWeb, Roger Blackwell Bailey, San Antonio College
• Contemporary Postimperial and Postcolonial Literature in English, George Landow, Brown University
• Postcolonial Studies @ Emory, Deepika Petraglia-Bahri, Emory University
• Online Literary Criticism Collection Main Page, The Internet Public Library
• Bohemian Ink: Literary Underground Review
• sparknotes.com: Literature by Author: cliff notes on steroids; not a substitute for reading the text or coming up with your own response to it, but useful if you find yourself lost and need to orient yourself

Major American Studies Sites

• American Studies Crossroads Project, Randy Bass, Georgetown University
• American Authors, Timeline, Literary Movements, and American Literature Sites, Donna Campbell, Gonzaga University
• American Literature on the Web, Akihito Ishikawa, Nagasaki College of Foreign Languages, Japan
• American Authors on the Web, Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya University, Japan
• American Literature Online, Michael O'Connor, University of Missouri
• An American Literature Survey Site, Daniel Anderson, University of Texas
• Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color, University of Minnesota
• Africans in America, PBS
• African American Mosaic, Library of Congress
• Black Cultural Studies Web Site, Tim Haslett, Nimmy Abiaka, and Paula Lee
• African-American Studies: A Guide to Internet Resources, Carol Rudisell, University of Delaware Library
• Native American Authors, The Internet Public Library
• popcultures.com, Sarah Zupko
• H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences OnLine
• A Hypertext on American History, George Welling, et al., University of Groningen, The Netherlands

On Individual Authors

Ralph Ellison

• Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, Alan Filreis, University of Pennsylvania
• Ralph Ellison, Bohemian Ink

William Faulkner

• William Faulkner on the Web, John B. Padgett, University of Mississippi, Oxford
• William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, Mark Severin, Deep Fried Happy Mice

Herman Melville

• The Life and Works of Herman Melville
• Herman Melville in Antebellum America, Kathie Fox, Northwestern Connecticut Community-Technical College

• Mark Twain in His Times, Stephen Railton, University of Virginia
• Mark Twain's Opposition to United States Imperialism: A Centennial Perspective, Jim Zwick, editor of Mark Twain's Weapons of Satire: Anti-Imperialist Writings on the Philippine-American War
• Center for Mark Twain Studies, Elmira College
• Shelley Fisher Fishkin: Mark Twain's America, Author's Corner (April 11, 1997), On-Line NewsHour, PBS
• The Reception of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn in 1885: A Controversial Process, Ferran Romeu, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
• Uproar in the Classroom, Robert Zalisk, essay on the documentary film Born to Trouble: "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (Jill Janows, PBS, 90 min.), which aired on January 26, 2000, part of the series, Culture Shock, on controversies over art in contemporary American culture (see particularly the teaching resources for AHF link on this site)
• Barbara Miner, "Reading, Writing, and Censorship," Rethinking Schools Online 12.3 (Spring 1998)
• Mark Twain in Cyberspace, Peter Salwen, The Mark Twain Circle of NY

• The Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive, Ed Folsom (University of Iowa), Kenneth M. Price (University of Nebraska, Lincoln), and Charles Green (College of William and Mary)
• Constructing Walt Whitman, Jason Paul Mitchell, University of Mississippi, Oxford
• Politics and Poetry: Whitman's Leaves of Grass and the Social Crisis of the 1850s, David Reynolds, City University of New York and author of Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography
• Walt Whitman and the Development of Leaves of Grass, curated by Anthony Szczesiul, hypertext development by Jason A. Pierce, Rare Books and Special Collections, University of South Carolina
• Walt Whitman, The Academy of American Poets
• Walt Whitman, Literature Online: A Site to Support Kennedy and Gioia's Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, 7th Ed., Addison Wesley Longman Publishers

Contexts

Manifest Destiny

• Manifest Destiny, KERA (Dallas-Fort Worth) The U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848) series, PBS
• Manifest Destiny and Expansion in the Americas, Kirsten Silva Gruesz, University of California, Santa Cruz
• American Continental Empire and the Doctrine of Manifest Destiny, Ronald Lee, James Madison College
• John L. O'Sullivan on Manifest Destiny (1839), Mt. Holyoke College

• Remembering Slavery, Smithsonian Institution
• Documents on Slavery, William C. Fray and Lisa A. Spar, The Avalon Project, Yale Law School
• Conflict of Abolition and Slavery, African American Mosaic, Library of Congress
• Studies in the World History of Slavery, Abolition, and Emancipation: Internet Links, H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences OnLine
• The Middle Passage, Shannon Ikerd, University of Kansas
• Links about Slave Trade
• Chronology on the History of Slavery, 1619-1789, Eddie Becker

EN 399-03: American Landmarks, Fall 2000
Created: 9/4/00, 3:07 pm
Last modified: 12/18/01, 9:58 am
Thanks to Carrie Yager, Kevin Carey, and Rich Heitman for suggesting sites.