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

• The Novel in Motion: An Approach to Modern Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1983), by Richard Pearce (PDF at Ohio State)

• A Supplement to Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors (2 volumes; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1902), by John Foster Kirk, contrib. by S. Austin Allibone
  • Volume I (A-G): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (H-Z): multiple formats at archive.org

• Outlines of English and American Literature: An Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived, by William J. Long (Gutenberg text)

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• A Thousand Words: Portraiture, Style, and Queer Modernism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2006), by Jaime Hovey (PDF at Ohio State)

• Children's Literature: A Guide to the Criticism (c1987), by Linnea Hendrickson (text files at Wayback Machine)

• Reading People, Reading Plots: Character, Progression, and the Interpretation of Narrative (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by James Phelan (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English language, Alphabetically Arranged, Which, During the Last Fifty Years, Have Come Under the Observation of J. Payne Collier, F.S.A. (2 volumes; London: J. Lilly, 1865), by John Payne Collier (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reconsidering the Emergence of the Gay Novel in English and German (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2016), by James Patrick Wilper
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Stories of Women: Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, c2005), by Elleke Boehmer (PDF at OAPEN)

• Mother Without Child: Contemporary Fiction and the Crisis of Motherhood (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997), by Elaine Tuttle Hansen (HTML at UC Press)

• The Other Side of the Story: Structures and Strategies of Contemporary Feminist Narratives (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Molly Hite (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• 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)

• 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)

• A Thousand Words: Portraiture, Style, and Queer Modernism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2006), by Jaime Hovey (PDF at Ohio State)

• Magazine Writing and the New Literature (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1908), by Henry Mills Alden (page images at HathiTrust)

• Common Law Judging: Subjectivity, Impartiality, and the Making of Law (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2016), by Douglas E. Edlin (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• 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)

• Insurgent Testimonies: Witnessing Colonial Trauma in Modern and Anglophone Literature (New York: Fordham University Press, 2015), by Nicole M. Rizzuto
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Literary and Social Essays, by George William Curtis (Gutenberg text)

• 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)

• Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts Between the World Wars (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), by Tyrus Miller (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Literary Modernism and the Transformation of the Work (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1988), by James F. Knapp (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
• A Thousand Words: Portraiture, Style, and Queer Modernism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2006), by Jaime Hovey (PDF at Ohio State)

• Insurgent Testimonies: Witnessing Colonial Trauma in Modern and Anglophone Literature (New York: Fordham University Press, 2015), by Nicole M. Rizzuto
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts Between the World Wars (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), by Tyrus Miller (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by William B. Worthen (HTML at UC Press)

• Mother Without Child: Contemporary Fiction and the Crisis of Motherhood (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997), by Elaine Tuttle Hansen (HTML at UC Press)
• A Poetics of Resistance: Women Writing in El Salvador, South Africa, and the United States (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1994), by Mary K. DeShazer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fictions of Authority: Women Writers and Narrative Voice (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1992), by Susan Sniader Lanser (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• The Gender of Modernism: A Critical Anthology (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c1990), ed. by Bonnie Kime Scott (multiple formats at fulcrum.org)

• Middle Passages and the Healing Place of History: Migration and Identity in Black Women's Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2006), ed. by Elizabeth Brown-Guillory (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Other Side of the Story: Structures and Strategies of Contemporary Feminist Narratives (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Molly Hite (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Hanging on to the Edges: Essays on Science, Society and the Academic Life (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2018), by Daniel Nettle (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Disquisitions on Several Subjects (London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1782), by Soame Jenyns
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• World of Patterns: A Global History of Knowledge (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2022), by Rens Bod, trans. by Leston Buell (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Ways of Making and Knowing: The Material Culture of Empirical Knowledge (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2014), ed. by Pamela H. Smith, Amy R. W. Meyers, and Harold John Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Story of Stupidity, by James F. Welles (HTML at mensch.net)

• Süddeutsche Monatshefte (in German) (partial serial archives)

• Ways of Making and Knowing: The Material Culture of Empirical Knowledge (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2014), ed. by Pamela H. Smith, Amy R. W. Meyers, and Harold John Cook (page images at HathiTrust)

• Studies in Intellectual History (originally published 1953; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), contrib. by George Boas, Harold F. Cherniss, Gilbert Chinard, Ludwig Edelstein, Bentley Glass, Leo Spitzer, Dorothy Stimson, Owsei Temkin, and Philip P. Wiener (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Library Life: Werkstätten Kulturwissenschaftlichen Forschens (in German; Luneberg: Meson Press, 2015), by Friedolin Krentel, Katja Barthel, Sebastian Brand, Alexander Friedrich, Anna Rebecca Hoffmann, Laura Meneghello, Jennifer Ch. Müller, and Christian Wilke (PDF with commentary at meson.press)
• The Para-Academic Handbook: A Toolkit for Making-Learning-Creating-Acting (Bristol, UK: HammerOn Press, c2014), ed. by Alex Wardrop and D-M Withers (PDF with commentary at hammeronpress.net)
• The Academic Community: A Manual for Change (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Donald E. Hall (PDF at Ohio State)
• An Address Delivered Before the Two Literary Societies, of the University of North Carolina, In Gerard Hall, On the Day Preceding the Annual Commencement, in June 1839 (Raleigh, NC: Dialectic Society, 1839), by Bedford Brown
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The American Scholar, by Ralph Waldo Emerson (HTML at emersoncentral.com)
• The Old and the New (address at 7th annual Stanford commencement; Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1898), by Walter Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pseudodoxia Epidemica (third edition; London: Printed by R. W. for Nath. Ekins, 1658), by Thomas Browne (page images at Google)
• Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science: Essays and Addresses, by Simon Newcomb (Gutenberg text)

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