Related Resources

General

• MIT Library Course Page
• Perspectives in American Literature Overview
• Searchable Bible

Mary Rowlandson

• Mary Rowlandson and the Psalms

Olaudah Equiano

• Equiano biography

Transcendentalism

• Transcendentalism Web Link

Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Hawthorne Site (Gonzaga)
• Hawthorne in Salem

Herman Melville

• Melville Site (Gonzaga)

Frederick Douglass

• Schomburg Library/Images of African Americans
• American Visionaries/Frederick Douglass
• Africans in America (PBS)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

• American Literature on the Web/Stowe
• Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture - Excellent site, with many images which browse many themes in Stowe's novel and culture.
• American Authors/Stowe

Harriet Jacobs

• Incidents Text and Images Site
• Jacobs, Writer and Activist Site
• Jacobs (PBS)

Walt Whitman

• The Classroom Electric - Material on Whitman, Dickinson, and their era. Contains the Whitman Archive and the Dickinson Electronic Archive.
• Walt Whitman Archive
• Walt Whitman, American Authors Site
• Walt Whitman, American Literature on the Web

Emily Dickinson

• Dickinson Electronic Archives

Rebecca Harding Davis

• Literary Context of "Life"
• Davis Site

Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain

• Leo Marx on Huck Finn
• Mark Twain/PBS
• Mark Twain in His Times Site
• Mark Twain (Gonzaga)

American Realism

• Perspectives in American Literature Overview

Harlem Renaissance

• Perspectives in American Literature Overview
• Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance
• Schomburg Library Exhibition on Harlem Renaissance

Toni Morrison

• Nag Hammadi (Epigraph to Jazz)
• On Gnosticism (Nag Hammadi)
• Jazz and The City
• Identity in Jazz
• Anniina's Morrison Site