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• 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.

• 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
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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
  • Gutenberg text and Librivox audio
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • 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)

• Qualified Hope: A Postmodern Politics of Time (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Mitchum Huehls (PDF at Ohio State)
• Where the World is Not: Cultural Authority and Democratic Desire in Modern American Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Kim Savelson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Dilution Anxiety and the Black Phallus (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Margo Natalie Crawford (PDF at Ohio State)
• Mammy: A Century of Race, Gender, and Southern Memory (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2008), by Kimberly Wallace-Sanders (page images at HathiTrust)
• Commerce in Color: Race, Consumer Culture, and American Literature, 1893-1933 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by James C. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Economics of Fantasy: Rape in Twentieth-Century Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Sharon Stockton (PDF at Ohio State)
• 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)
• October Cities: The Redevelopment of Urban Literature (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Carlo Rotella (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Sixteen Modern American Authors: A Survey of Research and Criticism Since 1972 (followup volume to a 1974 survey; Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1990), ed. by Jackson R. Bryer, contrib. by Walter B. Rideout, James Leslie Woodress, Brom Weber, James L. W. West, Stuart Y. McDougal, Philip G. Cohen, David Krause, Karl F. Zender, Reginald Lansing Cook, John P. McWilliams, Bruce Stark, John Henry Raleigh, John J. Espey, Ellsworth Barnard, Warren G. French, Joseph N. Riddel, Linda Wagner-Martin, and Richard S. Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)
• World Beats: Beat Generation Writing and the Worlding of U.S. Literature (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, c2016), by Jimmy Fazzino
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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)
• Conjuring the Folk: Forms of Modernity in African America (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by David Nicholls (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Sage in Harlem: H. L. Mencken and the Black Writers of the 1920s (originally published 1984; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Charles Scruggs (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• A Thousand Words: Portraiture, Style, and Queer Modernism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2006), by Jaime Hovey (PDF at Ohio State)
• Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism, by Henry Seidel Canby (Gutenberg text)
• Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1922), by Henry Seidel Canby
  • multiple formats at archhive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Port of New York: Essays on Fourteen American Moderns (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1924), by Paul Rosenfeld, illust. by Alfred Stieglitz, Alice Boughton, Paul Strand, and Dana Desboro (page images at HathiTrust)
• Italian Signs, American Streets: The Evolution of Italian American Narrative (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1996), by Fred L. Gardaphé (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary Modernism and the Transformation of the Work (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1988), by James F. Knapp (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
• Literature and Reality (New York: International Publishers, c1950), by Howard Fast (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Iowa Review (partial serial archives)
• 13th Moon (partial serial archives)
• Birth (partial serial archives)
• Conditions (Brooklyn-based magazine by women for women about women; 1977-1990) (partial serial archives)
• A: A Journal of Contemporary Literature, ed. by William Oandasan (partial serial archives)
• The Black Mountain College Review (1951) (full serial archives)
• 0 to 9 (New York-based literary magazine, 1967-1969), ed. by Vito Acconci and Bernadette Mayer (partial serial archives)
• Copy (partial serial archives)
• Contact (1920-1923), ed. by William Carlos Williams and Robert McAlmon (full serial archives)
• Hampton's Magazine (partial serial archives)
• La Petite Zine (full serial archives)
• The American Boy (partial serial archives)
• Rhythmus (full serial archives)

• The Selected Plays of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee (includes Inherit the Wind; Auntie Mame; The Gang's All Here; Only in America; A Call on Kuprin; Diamond Orchid; The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail; First Monday in October; Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1995), by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, ed. by Alan Woods (PDF at Ohio State)
• Kumu Kahua Plays (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, c1983), ed. by Dennis Carroll (PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii)
• Alice in Blunderland: A Farce in One Act for Four Male and Two Female Performers (Boston: W. H. Baker, c1903), by William Lincoln Balch (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Provincetown Plays (Cincinnati: Stewart Kidd Co., c1921), ed. by George Cram Cook and Frank Shay, contrib. by George Cram Cook, Susan Glaspell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Pendleton King, James Oppenheim, Neith Boyce, Hutchins Hapgood, Floyd Dell, Eugene O'Neill, Alice Rostetter, Rita Wellman, and Wilbur Daniel Steele (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Provincetown Plays, First Series (New York: F. Shay, 1916), ed. by Frank Shay, contrib. by Eugene O'Neill, Louise Stevens Bryant, and Floyd Dell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Provincetown Plays, Third Series (New York: Frank Shay, 1916), contrib. by Neith Boyce, Alfred Kreymborg, and Eugene O'Neill (multiple formats at archive.org)

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