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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)
• Civil Rights and the Environment in African-American Literature, 1895-1941 (London et al.: Bloomsbury Academic, c2018), by John Claborn
  • HTML with commentary at Bloomsbury Collections
  • PDF at oapen.org
• 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)
• Queer Books (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1928), by Edmund Lester Pearson (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Romantic Revolution in America, 1800-1860 (Main Currents in American Thought v2; New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1927), by Vernon Louis Parrington (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Golden Day: A Study in American Literature and Culture (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926), by Lewis Mumford (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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 (PDF 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)
• Literary memoirs of the nineteenth century (Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1921), by George Edward Woodberry (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Catholic spirit in modern English literature (The Macmillan company, 1922), by George N. Shuster (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essays from the London Times. Second series. (D. Appleton & Co., 1852), by Samuel Phillips and London Times (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crumbling idols; twelve essays on art, dealing chiefly with literature, painting and the drama. (Stone and Kimball, 1894), by Hamlin Garland and John Wilson and Son (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crumbling idols ; twelve essays on art and literature (Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1952), by Hamlin Garland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary friends and acquaintance, a personal retrospect of American authorship (Harper & Brothers, 1901), by William Dean Howells (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Literary friends and acquaintance : a personal retrospect of American authorship (Harper, 1911), by William Dean Howells (page images at HathiTrust)
• The golden day; a study in American literature and culture. (W. W. Norton & company, inc., 1926), by Lewis Mumford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leaders in literature; being short studies of great authors in the nineteenth century (Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, 1898), by P. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eight American authors, a review of research and criticism (Modern Language Association of America, 1956), by Floyd Stovall and Jay B. Hubbell (page images at HathiTrust)
• American writers, a series of papers contributed to Blackwood's magazine (1824-1825) (Duke University Press, 1937), by John Neal and Fred Lewis Pattee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notorious literary attacks (Boni & Liveright, 1926), by Albert Mordell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Queer books. (Kennikat Press, 1970), by Edmund Lester Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Editorial echoes. (A. C. McClurg & co., 1902), by William Morton Payne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections from Poe's literary criticism (Crofts, 1926), by Edgar Allan Poe and John Brooks Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• A primer of criticism. (The People's Publishing Company, 1883), by Eugene Lemoine Didier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nature in American literature : studies in the modern view of nature (The Macmillan Co., 1923), by Norman Foerster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nature in American literature; studies in the modern view of nature. (Russell & Russell, 1958), by Norman Foerster (page images at HathiTrust)
• American literature as viewed in Germany, l8l8-l861. (University of North Carolina Press, 1958), by Harvey Waterman l873- Hewett-Thayer (page images at HathiTrust)
• American bookmen : sketches, chiefly biographical, of certain writers of the nineteenth century (Dodd, Mead, 1898), by M. A. De Wolfe Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary pioneers; early American explorers of European culture (Harvard university press, 1935), by Orie William Long (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary pioneers : early American explorers of European culture (Russell & Russell, 1963), by O. W. Long (page images at HathiTrust)
• Panorama de la littérature américaine contemporaine. (Kra, 1928), by Régis Michaud (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A history of American literature since 1870 (The Century co., 1915), by Fred Lewis Pattee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Howells, James, Bryant, and other essays (Macmillan, 1924), by William Lyon Phelps (page images at HathiTrust)
• American literature in Spain. (Columbia university press, 1916), by J. De Lancey Ferguson (page images at HathiTrust)
• American literature in nineteenth-century England. (Columbia university press, 1944), by Clarence Gohdes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Enchiridion of criticism : The best criticisms on the best authors of the nineteenth century (J.B. Lippincott, 1885), by William S. Walsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new American literature, 1890-1930 (The Century co., 1930), by Fred Lewis Pattee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new American literature, 1890-1930 (D. Appleton-Century company, incorporated, 1937), by Fred Lewis Pattee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The golden day; a study in American literature and culture. With a new introd. (Beacon Press, 1957), by Lewis Mumford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Heartless immensity : literature, culture, and geography in antebellum America (University of Michigan Press, 2006), by Anne Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vanishing moments : class and American literature (University of Michigan Press, 2006), by Eric Schocket (page images at HathiTrust)
• The golden day : a study in American experience and culture (Horace Liveright, 1926), by Lewis Mumford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Queer books (Doubleday, Doran and company, inc., 1928), by Edmund Lester Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mauve decade; American life at the end of the nineteenth century. (Garden City Pub. Co., 1926), by Thomas Beer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mystiques et réalistes anglo-saxons d'Emerson à Bernard Shaw. (A. Colin, 1918), by Régis Michaud (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• American literature in Spain (Columbia University Press, 1916), by J. De Lancey Ferguson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Literary friends and acquaintance : a personal retrospect of American authorship (Harper & brothers, 1900), by William Dean Howells (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary reviews and essays : on American, English, and French literature. (AMS Press, 1971), by Henry James (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Literary friends and acquaintance; a personal retrospect of American authorship. (Harper, 1911), by William Dean Howells (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary memoirs of the nineteenth century (Kennikat Press, 1969), by George Edward Woodberry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The mauve decade; American life at the end of the nineteenth century (A. A. Knopf, 1926), by Thomas Beer and Irving Stone (page images at HathiTrust)
• American literature in Spain (AMS Press, 1966), by J. De Lancey Ferguson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Birds and poets : with other papers (Hurd and Houghton, 1877), by John Burroughs (page images at HathiTrust)
• The representative authors of Maryland : from the earliest time to the present day with biographical notes and comments upon their work (Whitehall, 1911), by Henry E. Shepherd (page images at HathiTrust)
• American bookmen : sketches, chiefly biographical, of certain writers of the nineteenth century (Dodd, Mead, 1902), by M. A. De Wolfe Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Littérature et mœurs étrangères etudes (C. Lévy, 1882), by Th. Bentzon (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of American literature since 1870 (The Century Co., 1921), by Fred Lewis Pattee (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of American literature since 1870 (The Century co., 1915), by Fred Lewis Pattee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Down at Caxton's. (J. Murphy & co., 1895), by William A. McDermott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crumbling idols (Stone and Kimball, 1894), by Hamlin Garland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Six New England classics. (The Booklovers library, 1901) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thoughts on the literary prospects of America. An essay: (Printed by J. Murphy, 1839), by J. Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of American literature since 1870 (The Century co., 1917), by Fred Lewis Pattee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The literati; some honest opinions about autorial merits and demerits, with occasional words of personality. (J. S. Redfield;, 1850), by Edgar Allan Poe and Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Social life and literature fifty years ago. (Cupples and Hurd, 1888), by H. W. S. Cleveland (page images at HathiTrust)
• The decline of introspection in New England letters, with specific reference to the work of Hawthorne, Holmes, and William James (1918), by Easley S. Jones (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• American humorists : lectures delivered at the Royal Institution (Chatto and Windus, 1890), by H. R. Haweis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The literati : some honest opinions about autorial merits and demerits, with occasional works of personality. Together with marginalia, suggestions, and essays (J. S. Redfield, 1850), by Edgar Allan Poe and Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
• An impression of the fifties. ([New York, 1908), by Mary Moss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Enchiridion of criticism. The best criticisms on the best authors of the nineteenth century. (Lippincott, 1886), by William S. Walsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• The romantic revolution in America, 1800-1860 (Harcourt, Brace, 1954), by Vernon Louis Parrington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary reviews and essays on American, English, and French literature (Grove Press, 1979), by Henry James and Albert Mordell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Recent American literature (Littlefield, Adams, 1961), by Mary Elizabeth Burtis and Paul Spencer Wood (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Native American humor : (1880-1900). (American Book Co, 1937), by Walter Blair (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Idyllists of the country side: being six commentaries concerning some of those who have apostrophized the joys of the open air. (G. Bell and sons, 1896), by George H. Ellwanger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Changing ideals of womanhood in the later nineteenth century novel. ([Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1928., 1928), by Lois Elizabeth Taylor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tall talk in America in the nineteenth century. ([Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1927., 1927), by William Riley Richardson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The literature of the middle Western frontier. (N. Y. : Columbia University Press, 1926., 1926), by Ralph L. Rusk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Panorama de la littératuure américaine contemporaine (Kra, 1928), by Régis Michaud (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Down at Caxton's, by William A. McDermott (Gutenberg ebook)
• A History of American Literature Since 1870, by Fred Lewis Pattee (Gutenberg ebook)
• American Arabesque: Arabs and Islam in the Nineteenth Century Imaginary (New York: NYU Press, 2012), by Jacob Rama Berman (JSTOR ebook)
• Empire’s Proxy: American Literature and U.S. Imperialism in the Philippines (New York: NYU Press, 2011), by Meg Wesling (JSTOR ebook)
• Neither Fugitive nor Free: Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel (New York: NYU Press, 2009), by Edlie L. Wong (JSTOR ebook)

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