Literary Resources - American (Lynch) - Index of literary resources available on the web, focusing on those of interest to scholars. Searchable and organized by period and topic.
Meta Description: [ Index of literary resources available on the Web, focusing on those of interest to scholars. Searchable and organized by period and topic. ]
PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - Includes images and bibliographical and biographical information on American writers from Anne Bradstreet and Cotton Mather to Langston Hughes and Kurt Vonnegut. The guide has links and study questions.
Meta Description: [ A research and reference guide to various literary periods and authors in American Literature. ]
All American - A university based reference site, analyzing aspects of American literature, history and culture. The site features a glossary of literary terms, an almanac and student written author biography pages.
American Authors - Pages on individual authors with picture (when available), links to works online, and other information; most pages also contain a selected bibliography of secondary criticism.
American Literature (Critical Essays) - Critical essays of mainly 19th 20th century American authors, many written for academic purposes.
Meta Description: [ Authors of the 19th & 20th centuries. Critical essays assuming you've read their works. Many written for academic purposes, but shared for information and entertainment. Please cite all your sources! - dewey decimal 810.9 ]
American Literature Association - Organization devoted to the study of American authors and literature. Includes a directory of member-societies, and membership and event information.
American Literature on the Web - Collection of links to sites on the Internet especially dealing with American literature and its social, cultural contexts. Site maintained by Akihito Ishikawa.
Meta Description: [ American literature resources including author homepages, electronic texts. ]
American Poems - American poetry, from the classic to the latest contemporary poets.
Meta Description: [ American Poems is dedicated to bringing you all the greatest American Poets - from the classics to the latest contemporary poets. ]
American Writers - Companion to C-SPAN TV series. Includes transcripts, links, and background information.
Brief Timeline of American Literature and Culture, Pre-1620 to 1920 - Includes events in American history and literature, with links to pages on literary movements, bibliographies, and individual authors.
Meta Description: [ This timeline of American literature and history 1620-1920 contains concise, year-by-year and decade-by-decade information on American literature and history. It includes information on individual authors, some images, and many bibliographies. ]
Electronic Archives - Contains essays, syllabi, bibliographies and other resources for teaching the multiple literatures of the United States.
Key Sites on American Literature - U.S. government's outline of American Literature links.
Meta Description: [ usinfo.state.gov UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE ]
KYLIT - Biographies and bibliographies of authors from Kentucky.
Literary Movements in American Literature - Contains brief essays on movements and important concepts in American literature. Each page also contains links to a bibliography of secondary sources for further reading and links to outside sites.
Meta Description: [ Alphabetical listing of American authors represented at this site with some external links. ]
Online Directory for American Literature - A directory for American Literature including colonial, 18th century, modern, and contemporary.
Meta Description: [ Best sites for American Literature ]
Project CROW - Course Resources on the Web, featuring a directory of American literature web resources, browsable by general resources (Basics), and sites featuring Syllabi/Assignments and Author Chronologies.
RunningRiver - Provides the official sites of several Ozark writers.
Meta Description: [ RunningRiver: The Virtual Ozarks, articles, photographs, maps, essays about the storied Ozarks region ]
The American Literature Archive - Literature from the late 19th to early 20th century. Includes full text of several novels.
The Clifton Waller Barrett Library - Aims to include all fiction, poetry, drama, and essays published by an American in book form up to and including the year 1875, with a substantial collection from the remaining years.
