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• Home as Found: Authority and Genealogy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (originally published 1979; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Eric J. Sundquist (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Moral Enterprise: Literature and Education in Antebellum America (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Derek Andrew Pacheco (PDF at Ohio State)
• Writing for the Street, Writing in the Garret: Melville, Dickinson, and Private Publication (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Michael S. Kearns (PDF at Ohio State)
• Paper Money Men: Commerce, Manhood, and the Sensational Public Sphere in Antebellum America (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by David Anthony (PDF at Ohio State)
• Ghostly Communion: Cross-Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, c2004), by John Kucich (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)
• The Troubled Union: Expansionist Imperatives in Post-Reconstruction American Novels (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by John Morán González (PDF at Ohio State)
• Uncommon Women: Gender and Representation in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women's Writing (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2009), by Laura Laffrado (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)
• Literary Transcendentalism: Style and Vision in the American Renaissance (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1973), by Lawrence Buell
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• Roads to Rome: The Antebellum Protestant Encounter with Catholicism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Jenny Franchot (HTML at UC Press)
• 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)
• Captivity and Sentiment: Cultural Exchange in American Literature, 1682-1861 (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, University Press of New England, c1997), by Michelle Burnham (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)
• The Mauve Decade: American Life at the End of the Nineteenth Century (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1926), by Thomas Beer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sullen Fires Across the Atlantic: Essays in Transatlantic Romanticism (2006), ed. by Lance Newman, Chris Koenig-Woodyard, and Joel Pace (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Americanisms and Briticisms, With Other Essays on Other Isms (New York: Harper and Bros., 1892), by Brander Matthews (Gutenberg text)
• Literary and Social Essays, by George William Curtis (Gutenberg text)
• Touching Liberty: Abolition, Feminism, and the Politics of the Body (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Karen Sánchez-Eppler (HTML at UC Press)
• Literary Friends and Acquaintance: A Personal Retrospect of American Authorship, by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)
• Autobiography of Col. Richard Malcolm Johnston, by Richard Malcolm Johnston (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth, by Henry Nash Smith (HTML with commentary at Virginia)
• Essays Before a Sonata, by Charles Ives (Gutenberg text)

• Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Dawn Coleman (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Troubled Union: Expansionist Imperatives in Post-Reconstruction American Novels (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by John Morán González (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Syntax of Class: Writing Inequality in Nineteenth-Century America (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006), by Amy Schrager Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cultural Secrets as Narrative Form: Storytelling in Nineteenth-Century America (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2004), by Margaret Reid (PDF from Ohio State University Press)
• American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), by Shelley Streeby (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Novels, Readers, and Reviewers: Responses to Fiction in Antebellum America (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1984), by Nina Baym (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• 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)
• Darkly Perfect World: Colonial Adventure, Postmodernism, and American Noir (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Stanley Orr (PDF at Ohio State)
• Homicide in American Fiction, 1798-1860: A Study in Social Values (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, c1957), by David Brion Davis (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Dime Novels: or, Following an Old Trail in Popular Literature (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1929), by Edmund Lester Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Problem Novels: Victorian Fiction Theorizes the Sensational Self (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Anna Maria Jones (PDF at Ohio State)

• Rhetorics of Literacy: The Cultivation of American Dialect Poetry (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Nadia Nurhussein (PDF at Ohio State)
• Poets of the South: A Series of Biographical and Critical Studies With Typical Poems, Annotated, by F. V. N. Painter (Gutenberg text)
• Poets of the South: A Series of Biographical and Critical Studies With Typical Poems, Annotated (New York et al.: American Book Co., c1903), by F. V. N. Painter
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Walt Whitman Archive, by Walt Whitman, ed. by Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price (HTML at whitmanarchive.org)

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

• 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)

• Oriental Shadows: The Presence of the East in Early American Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Jim Egan (PDF at Ohio State)

• Baltimore Literary Monument (partial serial archives)
• Beadle's Monthly (New York: Beadle and Cp., 1866-1867) (full serial archives)
• The Continent, ed. by Albion W. Tourgée (partial serial archives)
• Dwight's American Magazine, and Family Newspaper, ed. by Theodore Dwight (partial serial archives)
• Holden's Dollar Magazine (full serial archives)
• Peterson's Magazine (partial serial archives)

• Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman (multiple editions)
• An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's Critical Review of American Poetry in the Nineteenth Century (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1900), ed. by Edmund Clarence Stedman (HTML at Bartleby)
• An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's Critical Review of American Poetry in the Nineteenth Century (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1901), ed. by Edmund Clarence Stedman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems (New York: Doubleday and McClure Co., 1900), by Edwin Markham (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Masque of Poets: Including Guy Vernon, a Novelette in Verse, ed. by George Parsons Lathrop (page images at MOA)
• Modern American Poetry: An Introduction (1919 edition), ed. by Louis Untermeyer (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1914), by Emily Dickinson, contrib. by Martha Dickinson Bianchi (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1915), by Emily Dickinson, contrib. by Martha Dickinson Bianchi
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Ladies' Vase of Wild Flowers: A Collection of Gems From the Best Authors (Auburn, MA: J. M. Alden, 1850), ed. by Miss Colman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southern Poems, ed. by Charles W. Kent (HTML and TEI at UNC)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.