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Sub-Categories in 19th Century

Alcott, Louisa May@ (51)
Bellamy, Edward (1)
Bierce, Ambrose (37)
Brown, Charles Brockden@ (6)
Bryant, William Cullen (8)
Cable, George Washington@ (14)
Cahan, Abraham@ (22)
Cooper, James Fenimore (30)
Crane, Stephen (28)
Dickinson, Emily@ (36)
Douglass, Frederick (28)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (59)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel@ (67)
Holmes, Oliver Wendell (22)
Howells, William Dean@ (78)

Irving, Washington (33)
Jackson, Helen Hunt (5)
Jewett, Sarah Orne (4)
Kane, Elisha Kent@ (4)
Lincoln, Abraham@ (96)
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (21)
Longstreet, Augustus (5)
Melville, Herman (62)
Poe, Edgar Allan (64)
Stowe, Harriet Beecher@ (23)
Thoreau, Henry David (80)
Twain, Mark (181)
Washington, Booker T. (21)
Whitman, Walt (30)
Whittier, John Greenleaf@ (29)

Web Sites in Category 19th Century

19th Century British, American and Canadian Authors - Online verification of first printing of literary first editions by 19th century authors largely known for their work in children's literature.

19th-Century American Children and What They Read - A site devoted to American children and their literature from 1800-1872, featuring texts of children's books and magazines of the period, particularly works by Samuel G. Goodrich.

Alliance Learning Guide - Realism and Naturalism in American Literature - Assembled by specialists from Oxford, Stanford, and Yale, this guide identifies key books, online texts, and Web sites to direct your studies on Realism and Naturalism in American Literature.

American Literary Romanticism - A course from North Georgia College and State University which includes short biographical information and links to papers, criticisms, and other web sites.

Emmeline Grangerford's Scrapbook - Study of the American Way of Death in the Victorian era. Includes an examination of views on death, spiritualism, the mourning process, obituaries, postmortem photography, memorial photography, posthumous mourning paintings, funerary practices, and epitaphs.

HTI American Verse Project - A collaborative project between the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) and the University of Michigan Press.

Introduction to American Romanticism - By Ann Woodlief.

Sunday School Books: Shaping the Values of Youth in Nineteenth-Century America (American Memory, Library of Congress) - A representative selection of American Sunday school books published between 1815 and 1865, drawn from the collections of Michigan State University and Central Michigan University Libraries.

USA: National Identity I - An essay by Keijo Virtanen on the role of philosophy and literature in building up the national identity of the early 19th century United States.

Women, Madness and American Literature - Articles on the relationship between these themes in 19th century literature. By Jennifer A. Ward.

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