General American Literature Sites
Professor Donna
Campbell's website includes author bibliographies,
historical timelines, and explanations of literary movements,
periods, and concepts. A tremendous resource! http://www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/
Paul Ruben's PAL
website is a great starting point for information about authors,
periods and specific texts and other resources: http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/TABLE.HTML
American Literature
on the Web is another amazing site with comprehensive
links: http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/index.htm
Voices from the
Gaps offers detailed information about a wide range
of women writers who happen to be of color, a much needed corrective
to the distorted perspective provided by many other American
literature resources:
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/
The Art and Culture Network provides
an excellent thumbnail description of artists, writers, movements,
literary theorists and more. Pages usually have excellent links
although sometimes these fall out of date: http://www.artandculture.com/
Early American Literature
Links by Author (Alphabetical)
Gloria
Anzaldua
A publishing company has a site about
Anzaluda's "How to Tame a Wild Tongue." The site also
has the most up to date links to the limited resources on the
web:
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072469315/student_view0/gloria_anzaldua-999/_nbsp_.html
Anne
Bradstreet:
Pattie Cowell’s introduction
of Bradstreet for the Heath Anthology of American Literature:
http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/colonial/bradstreet_an.html
Representative Poetry Online
has a site site with eleven of Bradstreet’s poems and
a brief bibliography
http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poet27.html
Alvar
Nuñez Cabeza De Vaca
Christopher
Columbus
Jonathan
Edwards:
A site both hilarious and disturbing:
http://www.jonathanedwards.com/
Ralph
Waldo Emerson
A site with all of his writings,
biographical information, and links. The betst place to start:
http://www.rwe.org/
Frederick
Douglass
The library of Congress has an impressive
collection of Douglass' papers and some useful biography, timelines,
and links: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml/doughome.html
Thomas
Jefferson
Not surprisingly, the University
of Virginia site is the place to start for text, background,
and everything else of interest regarding Jefferson:
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/jefferson/
Harriet
Jacobs
A great starting point that includes
a web text of Incidents as well as a detailed timeline: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/JACOBS/hjhome.htm
Another strong site kept relatively
current:
http://www.drizzle.com/~tmercer/Jacobs/
Sylvia
Plath
Adrienne Rich
http://www.barclayagency.com/richwhy.html
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/rich/onlineessays.htm
http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=50&CFID=2653571&CFTOKEN=11683116
Luis Rodriguez
Luis
Rodriguez's home page: Has a commercial feel to
it, but also has lots of great information about Rodriguez and
his work.
Luis
Rodriguez: A site designed and hosted by the Steven
Barclay agency (Rodriguez's management compnay?). Has great
links to interviews, recorded poetry, and other goodies.
American Academy of Poets Luis
Rodriguez page: Not a particularly great page--basic
bio and some good links--but in general this site is a great
place to begin exploring American poets and poetry.
e-poets.network's Luis
Rodriguez Page: Has some interesting audio recordings
of Rodriguez poetry.
Metroactive
(a bay area arts web-site sponsored by Metro newspapers) features
an article based on an interview with Rodriguez about the appropriateness
of Always Running for schools and libraries. Rodriguez defends
his book and places efforts to ban it in a larger context: "In
Rockford, Illinois, when they banned my book, which was the
first time [book banning] was ever done in the Rockford school
district, they went ahead and banned 16 other books," he
says. "So there seems to be more than just my book at stake.
There's an agenda of keeping other voices, certain experiences,
certain kinds of literature out of the hands of our kids. It's
bigger than just Always Running ."
Anne Sexton
http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=14&CFID=2653571&CFTOKEN=11683116
Henry David Thoreau
The best place to find Thoreau text
and background materials: http://www.walden.org/thoreau/
Mark Twain
The best of all Twain web pages—includes
searchable texts of all Twain works and lots of background goodies
(Connecticut Yankee resources are especially good):
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/index2.html
The official web site for the recent
Ken Burns PBS special has a chronology, some useful photos,
and other goodies (warning: site is pretty commercial): http://www.pbs.org/marktwain
Site operated by the folks who maintain
the Mark Twain house in Connecticut. I do not think we can understand
Twain until we look at and think about this house and what it
tells us about him: http://www.marktwainhouse.org/
An excellent collection of Twain
quotes on all manner and range of topics: http://www.twainquotes.com/quotesatoz.html
John Winthrop
An essay, "John Winthrop and
the Origins of American Multiculturalism," advocating for
the continued importance of reading Wintrhop:: http://www.iso.gmu.edu/~drwillia/winthrop.html
An e-text for "A Model of Christian
Charity": http://history.hanover.edu/texts/winthmod.html
A web page for a college lit class
that provides a bibliography and useful links: http://www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl310/winthrop.htm
