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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These items can be checked out and taken home.  

 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