America - United States - American Literature
To find out more information about books from the United States, take a look at these resources. Read more about American literature like "Leaves of Grass," "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," "The Awakening," "My Antonia," "The Great Gatsby," and other works. Also, take a look at periods and movements in American literature.
- African American (4)
- American Theater (1)
- American Wars (2)
- American West Literature (7)
- American Writers
- Captivity Narratives
- Colonialism
- Jewish American (1)
- Multiculturalism
- Native American (7)
- Naturalism
- Romantic Period
- State Literature (9)
- The Presidents (4)
- Transcendentalism
The Knickerbocker Group
Bliss Perry writes about the Knickerbocker Group.
American Studies
In American Studies, Louis Menand combines nervous breakdown, racism, and antisemitism. He brings together these seemingly opposing forces to explore the importance of time, morality, and that little thing called writing. We look backward for clues, and he says it's because we have no place left to look. Are we disillusioned or just lost in...
Captivity Narratives
Captivity narratives were popular in Colonial American Literature. Read about the exploits of Mary Rowlandson and other captives.
A Student's History of American Literature
Read "A Student's History of American Literature."
Studies in Classic American Literature
Read "Studies in Classic American Literature," by D.H. Lawrence.
American Literature Anthologies
American literature has a rich and varied history. These books present literature from the Native American trickster and creation tales through Anne Bradstreet, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Sarah Orne Jewett, Bret Hart, Mark Twain, Henry James, Kate Chopin, Jack London, and more.
American Literature Anthologies
American literature has a rich and varied history. These books present literature from the Native American trickster and creation tales through Anne Bradstreet, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Sarah Orne Jewett, Bret Hart, Mark Twain, Henry James, Kate Chopin, Jack London, and more.
American Writers in Paris
Paris has been an extraordinary destination for American writers, including: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark Twain, Henry James, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, E. E. Cummings, Cole Porter, Henry Miller, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton, and John Dos Passos.
Perspectives in American Literature
An on-going and growing research and reference guide of American literature.
The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence
The war signals a time of reinvention — accomplished through spoken and written work. Here, John Rhodehamel has collected some 120 works: letters, diaries, newspaper articles, public declarations, contemporary narratives, and private memoranda. Read on.
West of the Border
"West of the Border" is a discussion of the borderland upon which multicultural writers position themselves. Noreen Groover Lape explores the contradictions in American society, brought about by cultural contact points.
from D.H. Lawrence's Studies in Classic American Literature
D.H. Lawrence writes about Classic American Literature.
The Pioneers
Bliss Perry writes about the pioneers in The American Spirit in Literature.
The First Colonial Literature
Discover Early Colonial Literature.
The Transcendentalists
Here's more info on transcendentalists in The American Spirit in Literature.
Emerson: Author of Books - Transcendentalist
Bliss Perry writes about Emerson in The American Spirit in Literature.