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• American prose literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism
• American prose literature -- Latter Day Saint authors -- History and criticism
• American prose literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism
• American prose literature -- West (U.S.) -- History and criticism
• American prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism

• American Prose Masters: Cooper, Hawthorne, Emerson, Poe, Lowell, Henry James (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1909), by W. C. Brownell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elegant Jeremiahs: The Sage from Carlyle to Mailer, by George P. Landow (HTML at Victorian Web)
• Style and form in American prose. (Doubleday, Doran & company, inc., 1929), by Gorham Bert Munson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The outlook for American prose (The University of Chicago press, 1926), by Joseph Warren Beach (page images at HathiTrust)
• American prose. (The Macmillan company: London, Macmillan & co., ltd., 1898), by George R. Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)
• American prose masters; Cooper--Hawthorne--Emerson--Poe--Lowell--Henry James (C. Scribner's sons, 1923), by W. C. Brownell (page images at HathiTrust)
• American prose masters: Cooper, Hawthorne, Emerson, Poe, Lowell, Henry James. (C. Scribner's Sons, 1929), by W. C. Brownell (page images at HathiTrust)
• American prose: (The Macmillan co., 1907), by George Rice Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)
• American prose; selections, with critical introductions by various writers and a general introduction (The Macmillan Company;, 1898), by George R. Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)
• American prose; selections, with critical introductions by various writers and a general introduction (Macmillan Co.;, 1903), by George R. Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Matters of Fact: Reading Nonfiction Over the Edge (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1997), by Daniel W. Lehman (PDF at Ohio State)
• Telling the Truth: The Theory and Practice of Documentary Fiction (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1986), by Barbara Foley (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Writing Tricksters: Mythic Gambols in American Ethnic Literature (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), by Jeanne Rosier Smith (HTML at UC Press)
• American non-fiction, 1900-1950 (Regnery, 1952), by May Brodbeck, Walter P. Metzger, and James Gray (page images at HathiTrust)

• Designs of Blackness: Mappings in the Literature and Culture of Afro-America (25th anniversary edition; New York et al.: P. Lang, 2020), by A. Robert Lee
  • PDF and Epub with commentary at peterlang.com
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN

• Declarations of Independency in Eighteenth-Century American Autobiography (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1998), by Susan Clair Imbarrato (PDF at Tennessee)
• Studies in literary types in seventeenth century America (1607-1710) In two parts. (Yale university press;, 1939), by Josephine Ketcham Piercy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Faithful Transgressions in the American West: Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women's Autobiographical Acts (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2004), by Laura L. Bush (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• 20th century Mormon women's autobiographical acts (Utah State University Press, 2004), by Laura L. Bush (page images at HathiTrust)

• Writing Tricksters: Mythic Gambols in American Ethnic Literature (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), by Jeanne Rosier Smith (HTML at UC Press)

• Faithful Transgressions in the American West: Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women's Autobiographical Acts (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2004), by Laura L. Bush (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• 20th century Mormon women's autobiographical acts (Utah State University Press, 2004), by Laura L. Bush (page images at HathiTrust)

• Faithful Transgressions in the American West: Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women's Autobiographical Acts (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2004), by Laura L. Bush (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• 20th century Mormon women's autobiographical acts (Utah State University Press, 2004), by Laura L. Bush (page images at HathiTrust)
• The female prose writers of America. (E. H. Butler & co., 1852), by John Seely Hart (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The Prose Writers of America; With a Survey of the History, Condition, and Prospects of American Literature (Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1847), ed. by Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools, Compiled and Annotated, With Questions for Study, ed. by Emilie Kip Baker (Gutenberg text)
• Models and values; a course of reading for students (Oxford university press, 1928), by Walter Clarke Phillips, Frank Rawley Byers, and William Garrett Crane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vermont prose: a miscellany (Stephen Daye press, 1932), by Arthur Wallace Peach and Harold Goddard Rugg (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American common-place book of prose, a collection of eloquent and interesting extracts from the writings of American authors (Thomas, Cowperthwait, 1839), by George B. Cheever (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fact, fancy and opinion; examples of present day writing (The Atlantic monthly press, 1923), by Robert M. Gay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Progressive readings in prose (Doubleday, Page & company, 1925), by Rudolf Wilson Chamberlain and Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Century book of selections (The Century co., 1924), by Garland Greever and Joseph M. Bachelor (page images at HathiTrust)
• These many years : recollections of a New Yorker (C. Scribner's sons, 1917), by Brander Matthews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Good reading. First book (C. Scribner's sons, 1922), by Joseph Villiers Denney and Bernard Raymund (page images at HathiTrust)
• The prose writers of America. With a survey of the intellectual history, condition, and prospects of the country. (H. T. Coates & Co., 1870), by Rufus W. Griswold and John H. Dillingham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prose preferences (Harper & Brothers, 1926), by Sidney Cox and Edmund Freeman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Descriptive passages (Century Co., 1928), by Paul M. Fulcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Style and form in American prose. (Doubleday, Doran & company, inc., 1929), by Gorham Bert Munson (page images at HathiTrust)
• English prose (H. Milford, Oxford university press, 1921), by William Peacock (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of narration. (F. S. Crofts & co., 1926), by Mary Ellen Chase and Frances Kelley Del Plaine (page images at HathiTrust)
• The way of composition ; an introduction to the analytical study of the forms of writing (Harcourt, Brace and company, 1925), by University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern American prose selections (Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920), by Byron J. Rees (page images at HathiTrust)
• American prose. (Houghton, Osgood and company, 1880), by Horace Elisha Scudder (page images at HathiTrust)
• American prose (1607-1865) (The University of Chicago press, 1916), by Walter Cochrane Bronson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of description (F. S. Crofts & Co., 1925), by Marjorie Hope Nicolson (page images at HathiTrust)
• American prose. (The Macmillan company: London, Macmillan & co., ltd., 1898), by George R. Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Writing of today : models of journalistic prose, selected and discussed (The Century co., 1915), by John William Cunliffe and Gerhard R. Lomer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mechanism of English style (Oxford university press, American branch; [etc., etc.], 1916), by Lewis Worthington Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prose models for use with classes in English composition (D. C. Health and company, 1928), by Edwin Long Beck and William Lucius Graves (page images at HathiTrust)
• American patriotic prose, with notes and biographies (D. C. Heath & co., 1917), by Augustus White Long (page images at HathiTrust)
• Writing of today: models of journalistic prose (The Century co., 1920), by John William Cunliffe and Gerhard R. Lomer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Writing of today: models of journalistic prose (The Century co., 1923), by John William Cunliffe and Gerhard R. Lomer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The way of composition; an introduction to the analytical study of the forms of writing (Harcourt, Brace and company, 1926), by University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric (page images at HathiTrust)
• The female prose writers of America. With portraits, biographical notices, and specimens of their writings. (E. H. Butler & co., 1852), by John S. Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thought and its expression ; a course in thinking and writing for college students (Harcourt, Brace, 1928), by George Carpenter Clancy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The chief American prose writers : selected prose (Houghton Mifflin company, 1916), by Norman Foerster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Freshman readings (Houghton Mifflin company, 1925), by Roger 1887- Loomis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The female prose writers of America. (E. H. Butler, 1857), by John S. Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The prose writers of America : with a survey of the intellectual history, condition, and prospects of the country (Parry & McMillan, 1856), by Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
• The prose writers of America : With a survey of the history, condition, and prospects of the country. (Philadelphia : Parry & McMillan, 1856., 1856), by Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thoreau on man and nature (Mount Vernon, N.Y. : Peter Pauper Press, [1960], 1960), by Henry David Thoreau and Arthur G. Volkman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of description (F. S. Crofts & co., 1928), by Marjorie Hope Nicolson and Mary Ellen Chase (page images at HathiTrust)
• American prose; Hawthorne: Irving: Longfellow: Whittier: Holmes: Lowell: Thoreau: Emerson (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1891), by Horace Elisha Scudder (page images at HathiTrust)
• The prose writers of America. A collection of eloquent and interesting extracts from the writings of American authors. (Leavitt & Allen, 1857), by George Barrell Cheever (page images at HathiTrust)
• The female prose writers of America. (E.H. Butler & Co., 1866), by John S. Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The prose writers of America, a collection of eloquent and interesting extacts from the writings of American authors (Hurst, 1876), by George Barrell Cheever (page images at HathiTrust)
• The prose writers of America : with a survey of the intellectual history, condition, and prospects of the country (Carey and Hart, 1849), by Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
• The prose writers of America; with a survey of the intellectual history, condition, and prospects of the country (A. Hart, 1852), by Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American common-place book of prose : a collection of eloquent and interesting extracts from the writings of American authors (Published by Carter and Hendee, 1831), by George B. Cheever (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leaflets from standard authors (Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1891), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Josephine E. Hodgdon, and Josephine E. Hodgdon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prose writers of America. A collection of eloquent and interesting extracts from the writings of American authors. (Leavitt, 1855), by George Barrell Cheever (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American common-place book of prose; a collection of eloquent and interesting extracts from the writings of American authors. (American stationers' company, 1837), by George B. Cheever, B. Franklin, and Benjamin Franklin (page images at HathiTrust)
• American prose : Hawthorne: Irving: Longfellow: Whittier: Holmes: Lowell: Thoreau: Emerson (Houghton,Mifflin and company, 1882), by Horace Elisha Scudder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Writing craftsmanship, models and readings (The Macmillan company, 1926), by Maurice G. Fulton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The prose writers of America.: With a survey of the intellectual history, condition, and prospects of the country. (A. Hart, late Carey and Hart, 1851), by Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
• The female prose writers of America. (Butler, 1855), by John S. Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The college book of prose, 1400-1929 (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929), by Robert M. Gay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Treasures from the prose world. With biographical sketches (Elliott & Beezley, 1883), by Frank McAlpine (page images at HathiTrust)
• American prose (1607-1865) (The University of Chicago press, 1916), by Walter Cochrane Bronson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The chief American prose writers (Houghton Mifflin company, 1916), by Norman Foerster (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American common-place book of prose : a collection of eloquent and interesting extracts from the writings of American authors. (Carter and Hendee, 1832), by George B. Cheever (page images at HathiTrust)
• Common-place book of prose. (H. & E. Phinney, 1844), by George B. Cheever (page images at HathiTrust)
• Writing of today: models of journalistic prose (The Century co., 1922), by John William Cunliffe and Gerhard R. Lomer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Writing of today: models of journalistic prose (The Century Co., 1919), by John William Cunliffe, Gerhard R. Lomer, and Gerhard Richard Lomer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prose you ought to know (Fleming H. Revell Co., 1906), by John R. Howard and Fleming H. Revell Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The prose writers of America, a collection of eloquent and interesting extracts from the writings of American authors (World Pub. House, 1876), by George Barrell Cheever (page images at HathiTrust)
• The royal gallery of poetry and art. An illustrated book of the favorite poetic gems of the English language ... (Adams, Putnam & co., 1886), by Nathan David Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The human wheel, its spokes and felloes. (Palmer, 1863), by Oliver Wendell Holmes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The prose writers of America : With a survey of the history, condition, and prospects of American literature. Illustrated with portraits from original pictures. (Carey and Hart, 1847), by Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
• The female prose writers of America : with portraits, biographical notices, and specimens of their writings (E.H. Butler, 1851), by John S. Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The young man's book of elegant prose : comprising selections from the classical authors of Great Britain and America. (Leavitt & Allen, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Graded selections for memorizing : adapted for use at home and in school (Van Antwerp, Bragg, 1880), by John Bradley Peaslee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections from Sidney Lanier, prose and verse : with an introduction and notes (C. Scribner's Sons, 1916), by Sidney Lanier and Henry Wysham Lanier (page images at HathiTrust)
• A primer of English and American literature (American Asylum, 1894), by Abel S. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• American prose: Hawthorne, Irving, Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, Lowell, Thoreau, Emerson (Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1893), by Horace Elisha Scudder (page images at HathiTrust)
• The two voices: poems of the mountains and the sea (H. B. Nims & Company, 1886), by John White Chadwick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ye lyttle Salem maide, a story of witchcraft (Almy, Bigelow & Washburn, 1906), by Pauline Bradford Mackie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The female prose writers of America. With portraits, biographical notices, and specimens of their writings. (E. H. Butler, 1866), by John S. Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• American prose; selections, with critical introductions by various writers and a general introduction (The Macmillan Company;, 1898), by George R. Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Writing craftsmanship, models and readings. (The Macmillan company, 1929), by Maurice G. Fulton (page images at HathiTrust)
• A freshman miscellany (Prentice-Hall, 1929), by Karl Julius Holzknecht (page images at HathiTrust)
• Treasures from the prose world. With biographical sketches (Elliott & Beezley, 1883), by Frank McAlpine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Progressive readings in prose (Doubleday, Page & company, 1923), by Rudolph Wilson Chamberlain and Joseph S. G. Bolton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Creative prose writing (Doubleday, Page & company, 1926), by Bernard Levi Jefferson and Harry Houston Peckham (page images at HathiTrust)
• American prose (1607-1865) ... (University of Chicago Press, 1920), by Walter Cochrane Bronson (page images at HathiTrust)
• American prose; selections, with critical introductions by various writers and a general introduction (Macmillan Co.;, 1903), by George R. Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Practical studies in composition (The Macmillan company, 1929), by Roy Ivan Johnson, W. W. Charters, and Laura Anita Searcy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Freshman readings (Houghton Mifflin, 1927), by Roger Sherman Loomis and Thomas Wolfe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern American Prose Selections, ed. by Byron J. Rees (Gutenberg ebook)

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