American essays
Here are entered collections of essays by several authors.
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Atlantic Classics (first series; Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Co., c1916), ed. by Ellery Sedgwick, contrib. by Robert Haven Schauffler, Dallas Lore Sharp, Edward Sandford Martin, Cornelia A. P. Comer, Owen Wister, Margaret Pollock Sherwood, Margaret Prescott Montague, Meredith Nicholson, Agnes Repplier, Katharine Baker, Simeon Strunsky, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Walter Prichard Eaton, Ralph Bergengren, Zephine Humphrey, and Lucy Elliot Keeler- Atlantic Classics (second series; Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Co., c1918), ed. by Ellery Sedgwick, contrib. by Henry Childs Merwin, William Beebe, Jane Addams, Samuel McChord Crothers, Robert M. Gay, Jean Kenyon Mackenzie, Edgar J. Goodspeed, William Trufant Foster, Lida F. Baldwin, Fannie Stearns Davis, John Jay Chapman, Lucy Martin Donnelly, Sharlot Mabridth Hall, Richard Bowland Kimball, Laura Spencer Portor, Anne C. E. Allinson, and Elizabeth Taylor
- The Bookman Anthology of Essays (1923) (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1923), ed. by John Chipman Farrar, contrib. by Mary Austin, Arthur E. Bostwick, Benjamin Brawley, Heywood Broun, Abbie Farwell Brown, Floyd Dell, John Erskine, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Zona Gale, Hildegarde Hawthorne, Oliver Herford, Robert Cortes Holliday, Aline Kilmer, Kenneth Macgowan, Thomas L. Masson, Arthur Bartlett Maurice, William McFee, Charles Henry Meltzer, H. L. Mencken, William Lyon Phelps, Keith Preston, Burton Rascoe, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Hugh Walpole, and Alexander Woollcott (page images at HathiTrust)
- Modern Essays (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Co., c1921), ed. by Christopher Morley, contrib. by John Albert Macy, William Allen White, Rupert Brooke, Don Marquis, David W. Bone, William McFee, Joyce Kilmer, Joseph Conrad, A. P. Herbert, Oscar W. Firkins, Hilaire Belloc, William Osler, Stephen Leacock, Harry Morgan Ayres, Thomas Burke, A. A. Milne, Max Beerbohm, Stuart Pratt Sherman, H. M. Tomlinson, Louise Imogen Guiney, Marian Storm, George Santayana, Simeon Strunsky, George Saintsbury, Bertrand Russell, Philip Guedalla, Robert Palfrey Utter, Logan Pearsall Smith, James Branch Cabell, Robert Cortes Holliday, Harry Esty Dounce, and Robert Cortes Holliday
- Modern Essays and Stories: A Book to Awaken Appreciation of Modern Prose, and to Develop Ability and Originality in Writing (New York: The Century Co., 1922), ed. by Frederick Houk Law
- Modern Essays and Stories: A Book to Awaken Appreciation of Modern Prose, and to Develop Ability and Originality in Writing (New York: The Century Co., c1922), ed. by Frederick Houk Law (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Modern Essays and Stories: A Book to Awaken Appreciation of Modern Prose, and to Develop Ability and Originality in Writing (New York: The Century Co., 1923), ed. by Frederick Houk Law (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Oxford Book of American Essays (New York: Oxford University Press, 1914), ed. by Brander Matthews, contrib. by Benjamin Franklin, Francis Hopkinson, Washington Irving, Richard Henry Dana, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry David Thoreau, James Russell Lowell, Walt Whitman, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, George William Curtis, Theodore Winthrop, Charles Dudley Warner, Charles William Eliot, William Dean Howells, John Burroughs, Clarence King, Henry James, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Henry Cabot Lodge, W. C. Brownell, Edward Sandford Martin, Samuel McChord Crothers, Theodore Roosevelt, Nicholas Murray Butler, and William P. Trent
- Essays, English and American (Harvard Classics v28), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson, contrib. by William Makepeace Thackeray, John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot, Thomas Henry Huxley, Edward A. Freeman, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Ellery Channing, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, and James Russell Lowell
- The World's Best Essays, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time (Imperial edition, 10 volumes; St. Louis: F. P. Kaiser, 1900), ed. by David J. Brewer, Edward A. Allen, and William Schuyler (page images at HathiTrust)
- Writers on America (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2002), ed. by George Clack (PDF at state.gov)
- Health and Wealth (East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1908), by Elbert Hubbard (multiple formats at archive.org)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: American literature- Le Petit Journal des Refusées (originally published 1896; this edition 2009), ed. by Johanna Drucker, contrib. by Gelett Burgess (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Transatlantic Romanticism: An Anthology of British, American, and Canadian Literature, 1767-1867 (c2006), ed. by Lance Newman, Joel Pace, and Chris Koenig-Woodyard (PDF at Toronto)
- Century Readings for a Course in American Literature (revised edition; New York: The Century Co., 1922), ed. by Fred Lewis Pattee (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Half-Hours With the Best American Authors (4 volumes; Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott company, 1891), ed. by Charles Morris
- A Library of American Literature, From the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time (11 volumes; New York: C. L. Webster and Co., 1892), ed. by Edmund Clarence Stedman and Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (all volumes: page images at HathiTrust)
- Prejudices: First Series, by H. L. Mencken (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Et Cetera: A Collector's Scrap-Book (Chicago: P. Covici, 1924), ed. by Vincent Starrett (page images at HathiTrust)
- Heart Throbs, in Prose and Verse, Dear to the American People (2 volumes; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1905-1911), ed. by Joe Mitchell Chapple
- Slides and Photographs, List 18: American Literature (descriptions without pictures, second edition, reprinted from the 12th annual report of the State Dept. of Education; 1917), by University of the State of New York Visual Instruction Division
- The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress (10 plays written between 1925 and 1944), by Zora Neale Hurston (page images with commentary at loc.gov)
- World's Renowned Authors, and Their Grand Masterpieces of Poetry and Prose (Kansas City, MO: Topeka Book Co., 1902), by Henry Davenport Northrop (page images at HathiTrust)
- The First Book of the Authors Club: Liber Scriptorum (New York: Authors Club, 1893) (page images at CMU)
- Tales and Sketches for the Fireside, by the Best American Authors: Selected from Putnam's magazine (New York: A. Dowling, 1857) (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Cyclopedia of the Literature of Amateur Journalism (Hartford: T. J. Spencer, 1891), by T. J. Spencer (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Hopwood Awards: 75 Years of Prized Writing (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2006), ed. by Nicholas Delbanco, Andrea Beauchamp, and Michael Barrett (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Second Book of the Authors Club: Liber Scriptorum (New York: Authors Club, 1921) (page images at CMU)
- The Folklore Muse: Poetry, Fiction, and Other Reflections by Folklorists (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2008), by F. A. De Caro (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- The New Negro: An Interpretation (New York: A. and C. Boni, 1925), ed. by Alain Locke, illust. by Winold Reiss (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Black Aesthetic Unbound: Theorizing the Dilemma of Eighteenth-Century African American Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by April C. E. Langley (PDF at Ohio State)
- U.S. Orientalisms: Race, Nation, and Gender in Literature, 1790-1890 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by Malini Johar Schueller (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Imperialist Imaginary: Visions of Asia and the Pacific in American Culture (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press; University Press of New England, c2005), by John R. Eperjesi (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)
- A Description and an Analysis of The Bibliography of American Literature (Philadelphia: Pennslyvania Historical Survey, 1941), by Edward Hayes O'Neill and Pennsylvania Historical Survey (page images at HathiTrust)
- The United States Catalog: Books in Print 1902 (second edition of this reference work; Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1903), ed. by Marion E. Potter (page images at HathiTrust)
- The American Bookseller's Complete Reference Trade List, and Alphabetical Catalogue of Books Published in This Country, With the Publishers' and Authors' Names and Prices Arranged in Classes for Quick and Convenient Reference (with an article on copyright by Washburn; Claremont, NH: S. Ide, 1847), ed. by Alexander Vietts Blake, contrib. by Peter T. Washburn (page images at HathiTrust)
- PAL (Perspectives in American Literature): A Research and Reference Guide (electronic edition), by Paul P. Reuben (HTML at paulreuben.website)
- A Nationwide Inventory of American Imprints Under WPA Auspices: An Address at the 1938 Conference at Kansas City of the American Library Association, Section on Archives and Libraries (Chicago: Privately printed, 1938), by Douglas C. McMurtrie, contrib. by A. F. Kuhlman (multiple formats at archive.org)
- 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 P. Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, and Carl Van Doren (HTML at Bartleby)
- Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, ed. by John W. Cousin (frame- and JavaScript-dependent HTML at Bibliomania)
- A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature (London: J.M. Dent; New York: E. P. Dutton, 1910), by John W. Cousin (Gutenberg text)
- Exotic Nations: Literature and Cultural Identity in the United States and Brazil, 1830-1930 (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1994), by Renata R. Mautner Wasserman (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
- The American Puritans: Their Prose and Poetry (Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, Doubleday and Co., 1956), ed. by Perry Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Kaleidoscope of Digital American Literature (2005), by Martha L. Brogan, contrib. by Daphnée Rentfrow (HTML and PDF at CLIR)
- A Guide to Documentary Editing (online 3rd edition, ca. 2008), by Mary-Jo Kline and Susan Holbrook Perdue (at gde.upress.virginia.edu)
- A Kaleidoscope of Digital American Literature (2005), by Martha L. Brogan, contrib. by Daphnée Rentfrow (HTML and PDF at CLIR)
- Questions and Problems in American Literature: Based Upon the Text of Pattee's Century Readings in American Literature (New York and London: The Century Co., c1927), by Irving Garwood (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Experiencing Fiction: Judgments, Progressions, and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by James Phelan (PDF at Ohio State)
- Prisons, Race, and Masculinity in Twentieth-century U.S. Literature and Film (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Peter Caster (PDF at Ohio State)
- First Editions in American Juvenilia, and Problems in Their Identification (Chicago: Normandie House, c1939), by Gustav Davidson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Distancing English: A Chapter in the History of the Inexpressible (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Page Richards (PDF at Ohio State)
- Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism: From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Yoshinobu Hakutani (PDF from Ohio State University Press)
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