American Literary Studies

Web-based Electronic Resources for American Literary Studies

Colonial and Eighteenth Century

Evans Digital Edition, Early American Imprints (1639-1800): Contains the text of all books, pamphlets and broadsides published in North America to 1800. An important resource for information about every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other topic imaginable.

American Periodical Series Online: Over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals.

American Periodicals, Index to: Keyword article level indexing to the above American Periodicals Series Online that in most cases is taken by the indexer from the body of the text of the article.

Early American Fiction: A collection of 422 full texts of the first editions of American novels and short stories written before 1850 by authors of significance during their lifetimes.

American Poetry, 1600-1914: The complete poetic works of more than 200 American writers, from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century, totalling approximately 35,000 poems. It includes the works of all major poets, such as Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Phillis Wheatley, Walt Whitman and John Greenleaf Whittier. It also covers less familiar names, such as Elizabeth Akers Allen, Richard Emmons, Lemuel Hopkins and Elizabeth Townsend. A selection of key representative anthologies of American poetry has also been included.

African-American Poetry, 1760-1900: More than 2,500 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries produced in a wide variety of types - allegories, broadsides, children’s poems, elegiac poems, epics, hymns, odes, patriotic poems and sonnets. The collection offers unique insights into the creative mind and reflects the conditions of early America and the role of Black Americans during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Nineteenth Century

American Poetry to 1900: The complete poetic works of more than 200 American writers, from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century, totalling approximately 35,000 poems. It includes the works of all major poets, such as Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Phillis Wheatley, Walt Whitman and John Greenleaf Whittier. It also covers less familiar names, such as Elizabeth Akers Allen, Richard Emmons, Lemuel Hopkins and Elizabeth Townsend. A selection of key representative anthologies of American poetry has also been included.

Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls: Original editions of over 8000 pulp novels, boys' papers, and related paper materials dating from1850s into the 1910s.

Mark Twain: Novels and Essays: A searchable database of the complete texts of the novels A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Huckleberry Finn, The Innocents Abroad, Tom Sawyer, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, and a group of selected essays.

Twentieth Century

Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry, 1901-1998: A collection of poetry written by the most important and influential African American poets of the twentieth century. Presently includes over 6,000 poems from over 100 complete editions by 46 poets, including Rita Dove, Robert Hayden, Sherley Anne Williams, Bob Kaufman, and Langston Hughes.

Twentieth-Century American Poetry: A database of modern and contemporary American poetry from the early twentieth century to the present. Presently includes 36,000 poems drawn from 460 volumes by 217 poets, including Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Wallace Stevens, and Langston Hughes.

Asian American Drama: When complete, Asian American Drama will contain the full-text of more than 250 plays, along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information. The collection begins with the works of Sadakichi Hartmann in the late nineteenth century and is planned to include contemporary playwrights, such as Philip Kan Gotanda, Elizabeth Wong, and Jeannie Barroga.

Black Drama, 1850-Present: When complete, Black Drama will contain the full text of 1,200 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 100 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries.

William Faulkner Novels: A searchable database of the complete texts of the novels Absalom, Absalom and The Sound and the Fury.

Last modified: March 1, 2006