To add to the great assistance Lauren Jensen will be offering us here are useful links to get your research going.
Please note: these are reliable beginning places but no substitute for careful close reading of our primary texts and smart searching of the literary reference works and databases we have available on campus.
I will take a bit of our class time to give even more instruction on how to chart out your research for your working notes and the research essay.
Reliable Full Text Repositories
U of Virginia’s Electronic Text Center
The American Verse Project at U of Michigan
Early American Digital Archive
Also, for many of our writers, there are dedicated, authoritative online sites.
The Walt Whitman Archive is one of the best. As you find others, please pass along links.
Guides to American Literary Study/Scholarship
Donna Campbell’s American Lit Sites include bibliographies, overviews of literary movements, and excellent links on individual authors–essential stuff
Paul Ruebens’ Perspectives in American Lit (PAL)
Jack Lynch’s General Links for Literary Studies
The Norton Anthology Site (will require a password that is inside the cover of your anthology)
More specialized materials (more to come here)
Establishing Historical/Cultural Context in American Lit
Library of Congress on American Memory
American Studies Materials at U of Iowa
