useful links  

Bedford st Martin's online literary glossary: LitGloss

Inventing America ONLINE

Timeline of American Literature and Events Pre-1620-1920

online resources for unit 1 (weeks 2-5)

1. There are a number of useful and critically significant articles on Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter which can be accessed via this page on  JSTOR

2. On Alcott's Little Women you may wish to read:

   • Judith Fetterley's "Little Women": Alcott's Civil War" in Feminist Studies, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Summer, 1979), pp. 369-383
   • Linda Grasso's "Louisa May Alcott's "Magic Inkstand": Little Women, Feminism, and the Myth of Regeneration" in Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 19, No. 1, Identity, the Body, and the Menopause (1998), pp. 177-192
   • Nina Auerbach's "Austen and Alcott on Matriarchy: New Women or New Wives?" in NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, Vol. 10, No. 1, Tenth Anniversary Issue: I (Autumn, 1976), pp. 6-26  
   • Karen Halttunen's "The Domestic Drama of Louisa May Alcott" in Feminist Studies, Vol. 10, No. 2 (Summer, 1984), pp. 233-254
   • Frances Armstrong's "Here Little, and Hereafter Bliss": Little Women and the Deferral of Greatness" in American Literature, Vol. 64, No. 3 (Sep., 1992), pp. 453-474
3. A number of essays on Emily Dickinson's poetry can be accessed via this page on JSTOR

online resources for unit 2 (weeks 7-10)

1. For Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk consult this list of references on JSTOR

2. On Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl consult this page on JSTOR

   • e-text available from the University of Virginia
   • A range of primary and secondary sources are available from the Library of Congress at this website: Documenting the American South
3. On Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson consult this page on JSTOR
   • Official website of Mark Twain
   • The Mark Twain house and museum
   • Mark Twain in His Times is a website from the University of Virginia which contains useful background information on the novel.
   • Mark Twain "film" from pbs
   • The Mark Twain Papers and Project is a website from the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley
4. On Charles Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition consult JSTOR
   • Gwen Mathewson's "Challenging the Court, Charles Chesnutt's Marrow of Tradition"; this is a chapter in the book Rodopi Perspectives on Modern Literature, Literature and Law. Edited by Michael J. Meyer. , pp. 219-240(22) (available online for free)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alcott House

 

 

 Emily Dickinson

 

 

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