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Here are entered literary and non-literary selections of reading material in the English language, compiled for teaching rhetoric, comprehension, etc. on the college level. General literary selections are entered under specific literature headings, e.g. American literature.

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• Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing (open-ended textbook series, begun in 2010) (full serial archives)
• The Informed Writer: Using Sources in the Disciplines (open access edition adapted from 1995 5th edition; c2010), by Charles Bazerman (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• 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
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
• 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
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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)

• German Writing, American Reading: Women and the Import of Fiction, 1866-1917 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Lynne Tatlock (PDF at Ohio State)

• Horizons of Enchantment: Essays in the American Imaginary (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, c2011), by Lene Johannessen (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)
• USA Literature in Brief (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2007), by Kathryn VanSpanckeren (PDF at state.gov)
• Outline of American Literature (revised edition; Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2006), by Kathryn VanSpanckeren (PDF files at america.gov)
• Mutual Impressions: Writers from the Americas Reading One Another (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1999), by Ilan Stavans (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• American Literature and the Destruction of Knowledge: Innovative Writing in the Age of Epistemology (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, c1991), by Ronald E. Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Displacing Homophobia: Gay Male Perspectives in Literature and Culture (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1989), ed. by Ronald R. Butters, John M. Clum, and Michael Moon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Examined Life: Family, Community, Work in American Literature (Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium Press, c1989), by Jim Wayne Miller (PDF at appstate.edu)
• Visions of Global America and the Future of Critical Reading (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Daniel T. O'Hara (PDF at Ohio State)
• Enthusiast! Essays on Modern American Literature (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, c2007), by David Herd (PDF files with commentary at manchesterhive.com)
• The Cryptographic Imagination: Secret Writing from Edgar Poe to the Internet (originally published 1997; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Shawn Rosenheim (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Americanist (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Daniel Aaron (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lionel Trilling and the Fate of Cultural Criticism (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1986), by Mark Krupnick (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
• American Literature (Richmond, VA: Johnson Pub. Co., c1921), by John Calvin Metcalf
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The American Spirit in Literature: A Chronicle of Great Interpreters, by Bliss Perry (Gutenberg text)
• The American Spirit in Literature: A Chronicle of Great Interpreters (New Haben: Yale University Press; et al., 1918), by Bliss Perry
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• A Book of Prefaces (fourth edition; New York: A. A. Knopf, 1922), by H. L. Mencken (Gutenberg text)
• A History of American Literature (Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., c1919), by Percy Holmes Boynton
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• 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)
• Letters and Leadership (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1918), by Van Wyck Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literature and Life, by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)
• A Manual of American Literature: A Text-Book for Schools and Colleges (Philadelphia: Eldredge and Brother, 1873), by John S. Hart
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Prejudices: Fourth Series (New York: A. A. Knopf, c1924), by H. L. Mencken (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Primer of American Literature (new and revised edition; Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1883), by Charles F. Richardson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Primer of American Literature (new and revised edition; Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1891), 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)
• A Student's History of American Literature (Boston et al.: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1909), by William Edward Simonds
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Studies in Classic American Literature (New York: T. Seltzer, 1923), by D. H. Lawrence (Gutenberg text)
• Crossing the Shadow-Line: The Literature of Estrangement (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by Martin Bock (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Look of Distance: Reflections on Suffering and Sympathy in Modern Literature, Auden to Agee, Whitman to Woolf (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1985), by Walter J. Slatoff
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State
• The Negro Character in American Literature (Humanistic Studies v4 #1; Lawrence, KS: Dept. of Journalism Press, 1926), by John Herbert Nelson (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• Art, Literature, and the Drama (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1889), by Margaret Fuller, ed. by Arthur B. Fuller, contrib. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Brief History of English and American Literature (New York: Eaton and Mains; Cincinnati: Jennings and Pye, c1897), by Henry A. Beers (Gutenberg text)
• The Facts and Backgrounds of Literature, English and American (New York: The Century Co., 1922), by George F. Reynolds and Garland Greever (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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)
• Literature and Art (New York: Fowlers and Wells, 1852), by Margaret Fuller, contrib. by Horace Greeley (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Magazine Writing and the New Literature (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1908), by Henry Mills Alden (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• 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)
• Literary Byways (London: W. Andrews and Co., 1898), by William Andrews (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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