American Literature 1865-1918









 
Links
Click on the names/topics below to get to a list of helpful web sites about them. Keep in mind that these are by no means exhaustive lists of sites available online. Several of the writers we are studying have literally 1000s of pages about their work on the web.

Developing a Context

Yahoo's 19th-Century American History Links

Cornells' Making of America Journal Library
(Thousands of books and 19th-century periodicals are reproduced in their entirety as page-by-page images)
Centennial Exhibition Digital Collection
site exploring 1876 World Fair in Philadelphia
19th-Century Science and the Woman Question
brief historical look at how doctors and scientists viewed women
Black Nationalism
a pretty thorough resouce
Domestic Goddesses
starting point for research on late 19th-c. "Scribbling Women"
American slave narratives
excerpts (1682-1937)
Around the World in the 1890s
Photographs from the 1894-96 World Transportation Commission
BoondocksNet.com
excellent resource for exploring anti-imperialism

Walt Whitman
(1819-1892)
 
 
Mark Twain
(1835-1910)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Complete, searchable, online text divided by chapters
"The War Prayer" by Twain, on this site
The Story of a Speech full text online
Online exhibits at UC-Berkeley's Mark Twain's Papers & Project site
Twain's home and study while writing Huck Finn
 
Henry James
(1843-1916)
 
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(1860-1935)
full text of "Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper" by Gilman
full text of The Yellow Wallpaper, in its original publication format with illustrations
excerpts from papers written on The Yellow Wallpaper as a "document for social change"
from Quackery to Bacteriology
(notes on women's healthcare in the 19th-century)
from Quackery to Bacteriology
(notes on mental healthcare in the 19th-century)
Kate Chopin
(1851-1904)
 
Booker T. Washington
(1856-1915)
"The Awakening of the Negro," an essay reprinted on Atlantic Monthly's website
Washington's 1895 "Atlanta Compromise Speech"
American Visionaries: Booker T. Washington biography, career, founding of Tuskegee Institute
"Booker T. Washington & W.E.B. DuBois: The Problem of Negro Leadership," by Robert A. Gibson
W.E.B. DuBois
(1868-1963)
W.E.B. DuBois: The Man and His Works
"Booker T. Washington & W.E.B. DuBois: The Problem of Negro Leadership," by Robert A. Gibson
"Souls of Black Folk Defines 'Timelessness,'" a USA Today article on the text's 100th anniversary (this year)
 
Stephen Crane
(1871-1900)
The Women of the Gilded Age, a critical essay on Maggie and Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth
Stephen Crane & The Commodore info on experiences that inspired "The Open Boat"
a brief, helpful page on the critical reception of Red Badge
Imaging the Civil War Painting, Photography & Red Badge
 
Edith Wharton
(1862-1937)
full text of Ethan Frome in html format, one chapter at a time
"Ethan Frome and the Springs of Masculinity," a critical article by Maria Magdalena Farland
"Edith Wharton's World: Portraits of People and Places," an online exhibit
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The Immigrant, 1916
(Charlie Chaplin)