ENGL 2040: Major U.S. Writers

Online Resources

American Literature in General

Norton Anthology of American Literature

American Passages: A Literary Survey

Donna M. Campbell (Washington State University), American Literature Site
• Puritanism in New England
• American Transcendentalism

Paul P. Reuben (California State University, Stanislaus), Perspectives on American Literature

Periods and Movements in American Literature

The Literary Explorer, Literary Periods of British and American Literature

Ann Woodlief (Virginia Commonwealth University), Resources for American Romanticism Course

Terry Matthews (Wake Forest University), The Great Awakening

American Transcendentalism Web
• Webtext of H.D. Thoreau's Resistance to Civil Government, or Civil Disobedience
• Whitman and Transcendentalism

John Lye (Brock University), Some Cultural Forces Driving Literary Modernism

The Academy of American Poets
• A Brief Guide to Modernism
• A Brief Guide to Imagism

Specific Authors and Works

Native American Tradition/Trickster Literature
• Helen Lock, Transformations of the Trickster
• Native American Trickster Tales
• Larry Ellis, Trickster: Shaman of the Liminal (Studies in American Indian Literatures 5:4 Winter 1993)

Steve Rasmussen, The Pagan Pilgrim: Thomas Morton of Merrymount

Mary Klages (University of Colorado, Boulder),
• Links to Sites Concerning Second-Generation Puritan Issues
• Links to Sites on Robert Frost's Poems
• Links to Modernist Paintings and Sites on Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams

Kavis Fleming (Virginia Commonwealth University, 1995), Review of Selected Criticism of "Young Goodman Brown"

The Walt Whitman Archive

Modern American Poetry
• On "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"

Kathleen Norris, Willa Cather (on web site for PBS program, American Masters)