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"Steerage" Alfred Stieglitz
Authors
Backgrounds
General Resources - American Literature
Voice of the Shuttle--American Literature, Comprehensive Humanities Directory, Alan Liu, U of California, Santa Barbara
Literary Resources onthe Net--American, Jack Lynch, Rutgers University
Library of Congress, American Memory Collection. Primary sources of digital historical and cultural material.
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Searchable archives and online exhibits.
American Studies. University of Virginia. Texts, exhibits, programs.
American Literary Movements. Concise descriptions. Dr. Donna Campbell, Washington State University.
Literary Theory
Modern Literary Theory. Brief introduction to Literary Theory prepared by Dr. Kristi Siegel, Mount Mary College.
Literary Theory. Extensive Voice of the Shuttle listing of links to critical theory pages.
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This site is being developed for ENG 353, Fall 2009. Watch for changes and additions get a start on the reading by looking at the primary texts for the course.
Required Texts:
- Nagel, James, and Tom Quirk. The Portable American Realism Reader. New York: Penguin, 1997.
- Wharton, Edith. The House of Mirth (1905).
- Chopin Kate. The Awakening. (1900).
- Chesnutt, Charles. Tales of Conjure and the Color Line.
- Crane, Stephen. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and other Stories.
Additional Readings:
Below are some other novels and stories from the period for those who are interested in reading more from this period. You may find them in a variety of editions in bookstores, libraries, or online. I have linked to a number of online e-text sources.
- Cahan, Abraham. Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto (1896). Eldritch Press.
- Cather, Willa. O, Pioneers! (1913). Project Gutengerg. My Antonia (1918). Willa Cather Electronic Archives.
- Chesnutt, Charles Waddell. The Confure Woman (1899).Chopin, Kate. The Awakening (1899). University of Virginia Electronic Text Center. The Awakening and Selected Short Stories. Project Gutenberg.Crane, Stephen. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1899). Learn Library.Dreiser, Theodore. Sister Carrie (1900). University of Virginia Electronic Text.Dunbar-Nelson, Alice. Violets and Other Tales (1895). Digital Schomburg African American Writers of the Nineteenth Centure, New York Public Library.Freeman, Mary Wilkins. A New England Nun and other Stories (1891).Garland, Hamlin. Main-Travelled Roads (1891). Prorject Gutenberg.Gillman, Charlotte Perkins. Herland (1915). University of Virginia Electronic Text Center.Howells, William Dean. The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885). Project Gutenberg.James, Henry. Daisy Miller (1878), illustrated with drawings by Harry W. McVickar (Harper, 1892), or Daisy Miller (1879). Project Gutenberg.Jewett, Sarah Orne. The Country of Pointed Firs (1910). Bartleby.London, Jack. The Call of the Wild (1903). Berkley Digital Library.Norris, Frank. McTeague (1899).Far, Sui Sin (Edith Maud Eaton). Mrs. Spring Fragrance (1912).Twain, Mark. The Adventures fo Huckleberry Finn (1879). A complete early edition from University of Virigina with 174 original illustrations.Twain, Mark. The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894). Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library. Wharton, Edith. The House of Mirth (1905). Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.
- Wharton, Edith. Summer (1917).
Reliable and Serachable sources of online texts and images include:
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