American fiction -- 20th century
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The Brand of Silence: A Detective Story (published under "Harrington Strong" pseudonym; New York: Chelsea House, 1919), by Johnston McCulley (Gutenberg text)
- Migrating Fictions: Gender, Race, and Citizenship in U.S. Internal Displacements (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c2018), by Abigail G. H. Manzella (PDF at Ohio State)
- A Body of Individuals: The Paradox of Community in Contemporary Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Sue-Im Lee
- Modern American Grotesque: Literature and Photography (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2009), by James Goodwin (PDF at Ohio State)
- Textual Contraception: Birth Control and Modern American Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Beth Widmaier Capo (PDF at Ohio State)
- Mother Without Child: Contemporary Fiction and the Crisis of Motherhood (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997), by Elaine Tuttle Hansen (HTML at UC Press)
- Structuring the Void: The Struggle for Subject in Contemporary American Fiction (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1992), by Jerome Klinkowitz (page images at HathiTrust)
- 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)
- The Ethics of Swagger: Prizewinning African American Novels, 1977-1993 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Michael D. Hill (PDF at Ohio State)
- The Novel in Motion: An Approach to Modern Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1983), by Richard Pearce (PDF at Ohio State)
- Neodomestic American Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Kristin J. Jacobson (PDF at Ohio State)
- Contemporary African American Fiction: New Critical Essays (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), ed. by Dana A. Williams (PDF at Ohio State)
- The Escape Motif in the American Novel: Mark Twain to Richard Wright (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1972), by Sam Bluefarb (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
- Living Labor: Fiction, Film, and Precarious Work (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Joseph B. Entin (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
- Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Women's Science Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Lisa Yaszek (PDF at Ohio State)
- Darkly Perfect World: Colonial Adventure, Postmodernism, and American Noir (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Stanley Orr (PDF at Ohio State)
- Witness Through the Imagination: Jewish American Holocaust Literature (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989), by S. Lillian Kremer (multiple formats at Wayne State)
- Romance and the Erotics of Property: Mass-Market Fiction for Women (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1988), by Jan Cohn (page images at HathiTrust)
- Adventures of the Spirit: The Older Woman in the Works of Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and Other Contemporary Women Writers (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), ed. by Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis (PDF at Ohio State)
- After the Vows Were Spoken: Marriage in American Literary Realism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1984), by Allen F. Stein (PDF at Ohio State)
- 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)
- Dialogues/Dialogi: Literary and Cultural Exchanges Between (Ex) Soviet and American Women (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1994), by Susan Hardy Aiken, Adele Marie Barker, M. M. Koreneva, and E. A. Stetsenko (page images at HathiTrust)
- Experiencing Fiction: Judgments, Progressions, and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by James Phelan (PDF at Ohio State)
- The Raymond Carver Review (full serial archives)
- The Wave, ed. by Vincent Starrett (partial serial archives)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: American fiction- American Fiction (Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction v10; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1917), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson, contrib. by Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Everett Hale, Washington Irving, Bret Harte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Mark Twain
- Pall Mall Magazine: Indexes to Fiction (Victorian Fiction Research Guides #9; 1983), by Sue Thomas (HTML at Victorian Fiction Research Guides)
- The Beadle Collection of Dime Novels, Given to the New York Public Library by Dr. Frank P. O'Brien (reprinted from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 1922), by New York Public Library
- A Guide to the Best Fiction in English (new edition; London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1913), by Ernest A. Baker (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Dime Novel Authors, 1860-1900 (Grafton, MA: R. F. Cummings, 1933), by William Cleveland Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Form of American Romance (originally published 1988; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Edgar A. Dryden (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Tactics of the Human: Experimental Technics in American Fiction (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014), by Laura Shackelford (illustrated HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
- America's Gothic Fiction: The Legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Dorothy Zayatz Baker (PDF at Ohio State)
- Dwelling in the Text: Houses in American Fiction (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre (HTML at UC Press)
- The American Novel (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Carl Van Doren (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
- Some American Story Tellers (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1911), by Frederic Taber Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
- Interpretive Conventions: The Reader in the Study of American Fiction (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Steven Mailloux (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
- Individual and Community: Variations on a Theme in American Fiction (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1975), ed. by Kenneth Huntress Baldwin and David Kirby, contrib. by Edgar A. Dryden, J. V. Ridgely, Roy Harvey Pearce, Louis D. Rubin, Carlos Baker, Philip Momberger, James E. Miller, James Baird, and Edward Mendelson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Buried Caesars: Essays in Literary Appreciation (Chicago: Covici-McGee Co., 1923), by Vincent Starrett (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Argosy (American fiction magazine, founded 1882) (partial serial archives)
- Young's Magazine (partial serial archives)
- The Saturday Evening Post (partial serial archives)
- The Escape Motif in the American Novel: Mark Twain to Richard Wright (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1972), by Sam Bluefarb (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
- Daughters of Aesculapius: Stories Written by Alumnae and Students of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs and Co., 1897)
- Love of Life, and Other Stories (New York and London: Macmillan, 1907), by Jack London (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Love of Life, and Other Stories (New York: Pub. for the Review of Reviews Co. by Macmillan; London: Macmillan, 1913), by Jack London, illust. by Charles Livingston Bull (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Auringon Poika: Seikkailuja Etelämerellä (in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1919), by Jack London (Gutenberg text)
- Roast Beef, Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney, by Edna Ferber (Gutenberg text)
- A Son of the Sun, by Jack London (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Ring of Fire II (included on a Baen CD image; 2008), ed. by Eric Flint
- Grantville Gazette II (included on a Baen CD image; c2006), ed. by Eric Flint
- Grantville Gazette (first collection; included on a Baen CD image; c2004), ed. by Eric Flint
- Grantville Gazette V (included on a Baen CD image; c2009), ed. by Eric Flint
- Worlds (included on a Baen CD image; c2009), by Eric Flint
- Grantville Gazette IV (included on a Baen CD image; c2008), ed. by Eric Flint
- Grantville Gazette III (included on a Baen CD image; c2007), ed. by Eric Flint
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