American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism

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• Autobiography of Col. Richard Malcolm Johnston, by Richard Malcolm Johnston (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Fears and Fascinations: Representing Catholicism in the American South (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), by Thomas F. Haddox (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• Southland Writers: Biographical and Critical Sketches of the Living Female Writers of the South, With Extracts From Their Writings (2 volumes; Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger, 1870), by Mary T. Tardy (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• Poets of the South: A Series of Biographical and Critical Studies With Typical Poems, Annotated, by F. V. N. Painter (Gutenberg text)

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• A Calendar of Confederate Papers, With a Biblography of Some Confederate Publications: Preliminary Report of the Southern Historical Manuscripts Commission, Prepared Under the Direction of the Confederate Memorial Literary Society (Richmond: Confederate Museum, 1908), by Douglas Southall Freeman and Confederate Memorial Literary Society Southern Historical Manuscripts Commission (multiple formats at archive.org)

• From Virginia to Georgia: A Tribute in Song, by Virginia Women (Richmond: B. F. Johnson Pub. Co., 1895), ed. by Mary Stuart Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poets of the South: A Series of Biographical and Critical Studies With Typical Poems, Annotated, by F. V. N. Painter (Gutenberg text)
• Southern Poems, ed. by Charles William Kent (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• War Poetry of the South, ed. by William Gilmore Simms (Gutenberg text)

• War Poetry of the South, ed. by William Gilmore Simms (Gutenberg text)

• The Durket Sperrett (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1898), by Sarah Barnwell Elliott (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Recollections of a Southern Matron (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1838), by Caroline Howard Gilman (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with "Taking the Census," and Other Alabama Sketches, by Johnson Jones Hooper, illust. by Felix Octavius Carr Darley (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Fifty Years in Chains: or, The Life of an American Slave (New York: H. Dayton, 1859), by Charles Ball (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Slavery in the United States (New York: John S. Taylor, 1837) (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The American Spirit in Literature: A Chronicle of Great Interpreters, by Bliss Perry (Gutenberg text)
• Art, Literature, and the Drama (New York: The Tribune Association, 1869), by Margaret Fuller, ed. by Arthur B. Fuller, contrib. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• A Book of Prefaces (fourth edition; New York: A. A. Knopf, 1922), by H. L. Mencken (Gutenberg text)
• The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes (based on editions by New York: G. Putnam's Sons, 1907-1921), ed. by Adolphus William Ward, A. R. Waller, William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, and Carl Van Doren (HTML at Bartleby)
• History of American Literature, by Reuben Post Halleck (Gutenberg text)
• Initial Studies in American Letters (New York: Chautauqua Press, 1891), by Henry A. Beers (Gutenberg text)
• The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors (8 volumes; Buffalo, NY: Moulton Pub. Co., 1901-05), ed. by Charles Wells Moulton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary Byways (London: W. Andrews and Co., 1898), by William Andrews (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Literature and Art (New York: Fowlers and Wells, 1852), by Margaret Fuller, contrib. by Horace Greeley (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Literature and Life, by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)
• The Look of Distance: Reflections on Suffering and Sympathy in Modern Literature, Auden to Agee, Whitman to Woolf (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1985), by Walter J. Slatoff (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• Magazine Writing and the New Literature (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1908), by Henry Mills Alden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Outline of American Literature (revised edition; Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2006), by Kathryn VanSpanckeren (PDF and illustrated HTML with commentary at america.gov)
• A Primer of American Literature (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1891, c1883), by Charles F. Richardson (page images at Pitt)
• A Student's History of American Literature, by William Edward Simonds (frame- and JavaScript-dependent HTML at Bibliomania)
• Studies in Classic American Literature, by D. H. Lawrence (HTML at Virginia)
• USA Literature in Brief (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2007), by Kathryn VanSpanckeren (PDF and illustrated HTML with commentary at america.gov)

• PAL (Perspectives in American Literature): A Research and Reference Guide (electronic edition), by Paul P. Reuben (HTML at csustan.edu)

• A Kaleidoscope of Digital American Literature (2005), by Martha L. Brogan, contrib. by Daphnée Rentfrow (HTML and PDF at diglib.org)

• A Kaleidoscope of Digital American Literature (2005), by Martha L. Brogan, contrib. by Daphnée Rentfrow (HTML and PDF at diglib.org)

• The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age (c2011), ed. by Amy E. Earhart and Andrew Jewell (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

• Studies in American Humor (partial serial archives)

• The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1992), by Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse (HTML at UC Press)

• Shouts and Murmurs: Echoes of a Thousand and One First Nights (New York: The Century Co., 1922), by Alexander Woollcott (page images at HathiTrust)

• The American Novel (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Carl Van Doren (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
• Dwelling in the Text: Houses in American Fiction (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre (HTML at UC Press)

• Hypnotic Poetry: A Study of Trance-Inducing Technique in Certain Poems, and Its Literary Significance (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1930), by Edward Douglas Snyder, contrib. by James H. Leuba (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Poet's Poet: Essays on the Character and Mission of the Poet As Interpreted in English Verse of the Last One Hundred and Fifty Years, by Elizabeth Atkins (Gutenberg text)

• Elegant Jeremiahs: The Sage from Carlyle to Mailer, by George P. Landow (HTML at Victorian Web)

• Sullen Fires Across the Atlantic: Essays in Transatlantic Romanticism (2006), ed. by Lance Newman, Chris Koenig-Woodyard, and Joel Pace (HTML at Romantic Circles)

• Autobiography of Col. Richard Malcolm Johnston, by Richard Malcolm Johnston (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Essays Before a Sonata, by Charles Ives (Gutenberg text)
• Literary and Social Essays, by George William Curtis (Gutenberg text)
• Literary Friends and Acquaintance: A Personal Retrospect of American Authorship, by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)
• The Mauve Decade: American Life at the End of the Nineteenth Century (1926), by Thomas Beer (text in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Roads to Rome: The Antebellum Protestant Encounter with Catholicism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Jenny Franchot (HTML at UC Press)
• Sullen Fires Across the Atlantic: Essays in Transatlantic Romanticism (2006), ed. by Lance Newman, Chris Koenig-Woodyard, and Joel Pace (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Touching Liberty: Abolition, Feminism, and the Politics of the Body (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Karen Sanchez-Eppler (HTML at UC Press)
• Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth, by Henry Nash Smith (HTML with commentary at Virginia)

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