American Literature

Reference Books

These books are available for use in the library only

19th Century and Earlier

Literary History of the United States

The Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature

American Writers: a collection of Literary Biographies

American Authors, 1600-1900: A Biographical Dictionary

20th Century

Literature and Its Times

American Ethnic Writers

Great American Writers: twentieth century

Contemporary Authors

Twentieth Century Authors

Circulating Books

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19th Century and Earlier

Bloom's Literary Criticism: Short Story Writers and Short Stories  |  Get It

Bloom's Literary Criticism: Novelists and Novels  |  Get It

Bloom's Literary Criticism: The Epic   | Get It

The Oxford Companion to American Literature  |  Get It

Colonialism and the Revolutionary Period (beginnings to 1800)  |  Get It

Realism and Regionalism (1860-1910)  |  Get It

Romanticism and Transcendentalism (1800-1860)  |  Get It

Frontier: American Literature and the American West  |  Get It

20th Century

American Literature  |  Get It

Contemporary American Literature  |  Get It

American Realism  |  Get It