American Literature
Open Educational Resources
Writing the Nation: A Concise Introduction to American Literature 1865 to Present
Becoming America: An Exploration of American Literature from Precolonial to Post-Revolution
American Literature I: An Anthology of Texts From Early America Through the Civil War
Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity
Open Anthology of American Literature
The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature
The Renewable Anthology of Early American Literature
Setting in the American Short Story of Local Color, 1865–1900 Rhode, Robert D. (1975)
Faulkner and Hemingway: Biography of a Literary Rivalry
by Joseph Fruscione - The Ohio State University Press
Fruscione examines the contentious relationship of two titans of American modernism. At times, each voiced a shared literary and professional respect; at other times, each thought himself the superior craftsman and spoke of the other disparagingly.
The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature (Abby Goode)
Outline of American Literature By Kathryn VanSpanckeren
Project Gutenberg's A History of American Literature, by Percy H. Boynton
The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Manual of American Literature, by Various
Authoring America: A Survey of American Literature from the Beginnings to 2020: An Open Anthology
Introduction to Literature Course (Lumen Learning)
Open course from Lumen Learning.
Authoring America: A Survey of American Literature from the Beginnings to 2020: An Open Anthology
Studies in Classic American Literature
Survey of American Literature: ENG 252
American Passages: A Literary Survey is a 16-part American literature course. The video programs, print guides, and Web site place literary movements and authors within the context of history and culture.
An Outline of Romanticism in the West
Jane Austen: Reflections of a Reader
Hunger and Modern Writing: Melville, Kafka, Hamsun, and Wright
Compact Anthology of World Literature II
Course Readings for African American Literature
DALA Digital American Literature Anthology
The American Yawp: A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook
American Passages: A Literary Survey
Open Modernisms is a Creative-Commons-licensed (CC-BY), social-knowledge resource that allows scholars of modernism to build custom anthologies or coursepacks of out-of-copyright primary materials. Powered by Islandora, the site offers a library of PDF documents from which users can build an anthology from scratch by uploading their own material, or by remixing someone else's work. Members can add their own notes or materials, and then output everything to a single PDF file for distribution and/or printing.
American Literature Classics Library
A free library of over 400 classic American books and novels.
LibriVox Audiobooks
A volunteer-run digital library of audio recordings of books in the public domain.
Crossroads: An American Literature Hypertext Site
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
This is a collection of public domain and open access documents
Bibliomania
This site has more than 2,000 classic texts, plus study guides and reference books.
Digital Book Index
Includes approximately 12,000 basic texts in English & American Literature, ranging from Chaucer & other medieval texts to modern, contemporary Fiction & Literature.
Digital Public Library of America
Great Books and Classics
Contains the old classics.
Online Books Page
Lists over 2 million free books online including prize-winning books and banned books.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg offers over 54,000 free eBooks
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature
A comprehensive anthology and guide to English literature of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Seventeenth Century, Restoration and Eighteenth Century.
Classic Short Stories
Complete short stories from some of the best classic short story writers.
The Short Story Library
There are over 4000 titles in The Short Story Library, including the greatest short stories ever written.
Useful Resources in American Literature and Culture
Literary Criticism on the Web from the Internet Public Library.
This site features links to selected online criticism of major authors in American and British literature. Note: Links to Northernlight.com will not work.
Teacher Resources - American Literature
The American Literature Library has thousands of FREE short stories and classic books free for you to enjoy.
Brief Timeline of American Literature and Events: Pre-1620 to 1920
Literary Criticism on the Internet:
Online literary criticism for British and American authors of the 19th and 20th centuries, with links to overviews, biographical information, and criticism of individual works.
Perspectives in American Literature
Historical context, biographies, bibliographies, study questions and links to relevant sites
Documenting the American South
American Memory - Arts and Literature
American Memory provides open access to full text historical documents and materials from the Library of Congress.
