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• 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)
• Idyllists of the country side: being six commentaries concerning some of those who have apostrophized the joys of the open air. (London, G. Bell and sons, 1896), by George H. Ellwanger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Selections from Poe's literary criticism / edited with an introduction by John Brooks Moore. (New York : Crofts, 1926), by Edgar Allan Poe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Short studies of American authors. By Thomas Wentworth Higginson. (Boston, Lee & Shepard; New York, C. T. Dillingham, 1880), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (page images at HathiTrust)
• American literature in Spain, (New York, Columbia university press, 1916), by J. De Lancey Ferguson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary friends and acquaintance; a personal retrospect of American authorship. (New York Harper, [1911]), by William Dean Howells (page images at HathiTrust)
• The representative authors of Maryland : from the earliest time to the present day with biographical notes and comments upon their work / by Henry E. Shepherd. (New York : Whitehall, 1911), by Henry E. Shepherd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Birds and poets : with other papers / by John Burroughs ... (New York : Hurd and Houghton, 1877), by John Burroughs (page images at HathiTrust)
• American bookmen : sketches, chiefly biographical, of certain writers of the nineteenth century / by M. A. DeWolfe Howe. (New York : Dodd, Mead, 1902), by M. A. De Wolfe Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Littérature et mœurs étrangères etudes / par Th. Bentzon. (Paris : C. Lévy, 1882), by Th. Bentzon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Editorial echoes. (Chicago, A. C. McClurg & co., 1902), by William Morton Payne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leaders in literature; being short studies of great authors in the nineteenth century. (Edinburgh, Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, 1898), by P. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• American literature in Spain, by John De Lancey Ferguson. (New York, Columbia University Press, 1916), by J. De Lancey Ferguson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A history of American literature since 1870 / by Fred Lewis Pattee. (New York : The Century Co., 1921), by Fred Lewis Pattee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary memoirs of the nineteenth century, by George Edward Woodberry. (New York, Harcourt, Brace and company, 1921), by George Edward Woodberry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Down at Caxton's. By Walter Lecky [pseud.] ... (Baltimore, J. Murphy & co., 1895), by William A. McDermott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crumbling idols; (Chicago and Cambridge [Mass.] Stone and Kimball, 1894), by Hamlin Garland (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of American literature since 1870, (New York, The Century co., [1915]), by Fred Lewis Pattee (page images at HathiTrust)
• A primer of criticism. (Baltimore, The People's publishing company, 1883), by Eugene Lemoine Didier (page images at HathiTrust)
• U.S. orientalisms : race, nation, and gender in literature, 1790-1890 / Malini Johar Schueller. (Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1998), by Malini Johar Schueller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heartless immensity : literature, culture, and geography in antebellum America / Anne Baker. (Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2006), by Anne Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vanishing moments : class and American literature / Eric Schocket. (Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2006), by Eric Schocket (page images at HathiTrust)
• Six New England classics. ([Philadelphia] The Booklovers library, [1901]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new American literature, 1890-1930, by Fred Lewis Pattee (New York, London D. Appleton-Century company, incorporated, 1937), by Fred Lewis Pattee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thoughts on the literary prospects of America. An essay: (Baltimore, Printed by J. Murphy, 1839), by J. Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of American literature since 1870, by Fred Lewis Pattee ... (New York, The Century co., 1917), by Fred Lewis Pattee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Literary friends and acquaintance : a personal retrospect of American authorship / by W. D. Howells. (New York : Harper & brothers, 1900), by William Dean Howells (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary pioneers; early American explorers of European culture. (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1935), by Orie William Long (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nature in American literature; studies in the modern view of nature. (New York : Russell & Russell, [1958]), by Norman Foerster (page images at HathiTrust)
• The times of Melville and Whitman. (New York] E. P. Dutton, 1947), by Van Wyck Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new American literature, 1890-1930. (New York, Century, [c1930]), by Fred Lewis Pattee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The literati; some honest opinions about autorial merits and demerits, with occasional words of personality. (New-York, J. S. Redfield; Boston, B. Mussey & co., 1850), by Edgar Allan Poe (page images at HathiTrust)
• American literature in nineteenth-century England, (New York, Columbia university press, 1944), by Clarence Gohdes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The living authors of America. By Thomas Powell ... (New York, Stringer and Townsend, 1850), by Thomas Powell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays from the London Times. Second series. (New-York, D. Appleton & company, 1852), by Samuel Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary pioneers : early American explorers of European culture / by Orie William Long. (New York : Russell & Russell, 1963), by Orie William Long (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great spiritual writers of America. (San Francisco : P. Elder, [c1916]), by George Hamlin Fitch (page images at HathiTrust)
• American bookmen; sketches, chiefly biographical, of certain writers of the nineteenth century, (New York, Dodd, Mead and company, 1898), by M. A. De Wolfe Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mystiques et réalistes anglo-saxons d'Emerson à Bernard Shaw. (Paris, A. Colin, 1918), by Régis Michaud (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Crumbling idols; twelve essays on art, dealing chiefly with literature, painting and the drama, Hamlin Garland. (Chicago, Cambridge [Mass.] Stone and Kimball, 1894), by Hamlin Garland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Passages from the correspondence and other papers of Rufus W. Griswold. (Cambridge, Mass., W.M. Griswold, 1898), by Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crumbling idols; twelve essays on art and literature. With an introd. by Robert E. Spiller. (Gainesville, Fla., Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1952), by Hamlin Garland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eight American authors, a review of research and criticism, by Jay B. Hubbell [and others] (New York, Modern Language Association of America, 1956), by Floyd Stovall (page images at HathiTrust)

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