RALPH BAUER 2115 Susquehanna Hall Department of English University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742

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Resources

A. Resources American Literature 1600-1810

1. PRINTED RESOURCES
   
   • BOOKS:
     • Tzvetan Todorov, The Conquest of America.
     • William Cronon, Changes in the Land.
     • Francis Jennings, The Invasion of America.
     • James Axtell, After Columbus.
     • Gordon Sayre, Les Savages Americains. Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature.
     • Sandra Messinger Cypress, La Malinche in Mexican Literature from History to Myth.
     • William Rasmussen and Robert Tilton, Pocahontas: Her Life and Legend.
     • Stephen Greenblatt, Marvelous Possessions.
     • Irving Leonard, Books of the Brave.
     • Peter Hulme, Colonial Encounters.
     • Rolena Adorno, Guaman Poma: Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru.
     • June Namias, White Captives.
     • Christopher Castiglia, Bound and Determined.
     • Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Puritan Goodwifes.
     • John Demos, Unredeemed Captive.
     • David Hall, World of Wonder, Days of Judgment.
     • Perry Miller, Errand into the Wilderness.
     • Sacan Bercovitch, The American Jeremiad
     • Stephen Nissenbaum, Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft.
     • John Canup, Out of the Wilderness. The Emergence of an American Identity in Colonial New England.
     • Philip Gura, A Glimpse of Zion.
     • Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic.
     • Stephen Foster, The Long Argument.
     • Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife's Tale.
     • Linda Kerber, Women of the Republic.
     • Oberg and Stout, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin and the Representation of American Culture.
     • Patricia Seed, To Love, Honor, and Obey in Colonial Mexico.
     • Irving Leonard, Baroque Times in Old Mexico.
     • Edmund Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom.
     • Frank Shuffleton, ed. A Mixed Race.
     • Leo Lemay, Men of Letters in Colonial Maryland.
     • Kenneth Lockridge, On the Sources of Patriarchal Rage.
     • Annette Kolodny, The Land Before Her.
     • ---, The Lay of the Land.
     • Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden.
     • Mary Louise Pratt, Imperial Eyes.
     • Pamela Regis, Describing America.
     • David Shields, Oracles of Empire.
     • William Dowling, Poetry and Ideology in Revolutionary Connecticut.
     • Cathy Davidson, Revolution and the Word.
     • Bennedict Anderson, Imagined Communities.
     • Larger Ziff, Writing in the New Nation.
     • Michael Warner, Letters of the Republic.
     • Jay Fliegelman, Prodigals and Pilgrims.
       
       
       
   • JOURNALS
     • Early American Literature.
     • William and Mary Quarterly
     • Eighteenth-Century Studies
     • Colonial Latin American Review
     • American Literature
     • Colonial Latin American Historical Review
     • Journal of the Early Republic
     
     
     
   • MICROFORM AND FILM
     • Early American imprints, 1639-1800 microform. Clifford K. Shipton, editor
     • Catalogue of early American imprints, 1640-1800 including the microform series Early American imprints, first series, 1639-1800 (Evans).
     • Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary
     
     
     
   • DIGITAL RESOURCES
     • Society of Early Americanists Homepage. A site for professional early Americanists.
     • Society of Early Americanists Resource Page. Contains many links and references to resources in early American studies.
     • PAL: Perspectives in American Literature Contains helpful background materials on American authors.
     • The Heath Anthology of American Literature Reader Resources. Contains useful background materials and links relating to Americna authors.
     • Lords of the Earth. An excellent site devoted to pre-Columbian cultures, especially the Maya, Inca, Aztec.
     • The Discoverers Web. Gathers all kinds of information found on the web about voyages of discovery and exploration.
     • Eighteenth-Century Resources. An excellent site devoted to Eighteenth-Century Studies.
     • Eighteenth-Century Studies. An archive containing novels, plays, memoirs, treatises and poems of the period are kept here (in some cases, influential texts from before 1700 or after 1800 as well), along with modern criticism.
     • Voice of the Shuttle An inter-disciplinary and searchable site containing an enormous amount of helpful materials relating to American literary studies.
     • Early American Literature Index. A site with links to texts and background information about major American writers to 1865 compiled by Dr. Roger Blackwell Bailey.
     • The History of Louisiana A website created by Professor Gordon Sayre at the University of Oregon containing primary and background materials w/r to the ethnographer, historian, and naturalist, Le Page du Pratz and colonial French Louisiana.
     • Virtual Musuem of New France. Contains much valuable information with regard to colonial New France.
     • Early Americas Digital Archive. A multi-lingual archive of primary materials from the early Americas housed at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH).

B. Resources American Literature 1810-1865

1. PRINTED RESOURCES
   
   • BOOKS:
     SOME CLASSICS:
     • Brooks, Van Wyck. The Times of Melville and Whitman.
     • Matthiessen, F. O. The American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman.
     • Lewis, R. W. B. The American Adam: Innocence, Tragedy, and Tradition in the Nineteenth - Century.
       
     • Feidelson, Charles. Symbolism and American Literature.
       
     • Levin, Harry. The Power of Blackness: Hawthorne, Poe, Melville.
       
     • Fiedler, Leslie. Love and Death in the American Novel.
       
       
     AMERICAN RENAISSANCE, ROMANTICISM AND TRANSCENDENTALISM
     
     • Reynolds, David. Beneath the American Renaissance: the subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville.
     • Dimock, Wai-chee, Empire for liberty : Melville and the poetics of individualism
     • Reynolds, Larry. European Revolutions and the American Literary Renaissance.
     • Weissbuch, Robert. American Double Cross: American Literature and British Influence in the Age of Emerson.
     • Porte, Joel. Emerson and Thoreau: Transcendentalists in Conflict.
     • --------------. In Respect to Egotism: Studies in American Romantic Writing.
     • Gilmore, Michael. American Romanticism and the Marketplace.
     • Buell, Lawrence. New England Literary Culture, from Revolution Through Renaissance.
     • ---------------------. Literary Transcendentalism: Style and Vision in the American Renaissance.
     • Pease, Donald. Visionary Compacts: American Renaissance Writings in Cultural Contexts.
     • Michael Lopez, Emerson and Power: Creative Antagonism in the Nineteenth Century.
     • Dauber, Kenneth. The Idea of Authorship in America: Democratic Poetics from Franklin to Melville.
     • Greenfield, Bruce Robert. Narrating Discovery: the Romantic Explorer in American Literature, 1790-1855
     • Broadhead, Richard. Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America.
     • Smith, Martha Nell. Rowing in Eden: Rereading Emily Dickinson.
     • Kramer, Michael. Imagining Language in America: From Revolution to the Civil War.
     • Gustafson Thomas. Representative Words: Politics, Literature, and the American Language, 1777-1865.
     • Sunquist, Eric. Home as Found: Authority and Genealogy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature.
     • Levine, Robert. Conspiracy and Romance: Studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville.
     • ------------------. Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity.
     • Eric Lott, Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class..
     • Ryan, Mary. The Empire of the Mother: American Writing about Domisticity, 1830-1860.
     • Jane Tompkins, Sensational Designs: The Cultural Word of American Fiction, 1790-1860.
     • Foster, Francis Smith. Written by Herself: Literary Production by African American Women, 1746-1892.
     • Zafar, Rafia. We Wear the Mask: African Americans write American Literature, 1760-1870.
     • Julia Stern, The plight of feeling : sympathy and dissent in the early American novel .
     • Jarred Gardner, Master plots : race and the founding of an American literature, 1787-1845.
       
       
       
   • JOURNALS
     • American Literature
     • American Literary History
     • ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance.
     • ATQ: Nineteenth-Century American Literature.
     • American Quarterly
     
     
     
   
   
2. DIGITAL RESOURCES
   • Dickinson Electronic Archives
   • PAL: Perspectives in American Literature Contains helpful background materials on American authors.
   • The Heath Anthology of American Literature Reader Resources. Contains useful background materials and links relating to Americna authors.
   • Voice of the Shuttle An inter-disciplinary and searchable site containing an enormous amount of helpful materials relating to American literary studies.

C. Resources American Literature 1865-present