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• Horizons of Enchantment: Essays in the American Imaginary (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, c2011), by Lene Johannessen (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)
• USA Literature in Brief (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2007), by Kathryn VanSpanckeren (PDF at state.gov)
• Outline of American Literature (revised edition; Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2006), by Kathryn VanSpanckeren (PDF with commentary at america.gov)
• Mutual Impressions: Writers from the Americas Reading One Another (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1999), by Ilan Stavans (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exotic Nations: Literature and Cultural Identity in the United States and Brazil, 1830-1930 (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1994), by Renata R. Mautner Wasserman (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• American Literature and the Destruction of Knowledge: Innovative Writing in the Age of Epistemology (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, c1991), by Ronald E. Martin (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)
• The Examined Life: Family, Community, Work in American Literature (Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium Press, c1989), by Jim Wayne Miller (PDF at appstate.edu)
• Visions of Global America and the Future of Critical Reading (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Daniel T. O'Hara (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Cryptographic Imagination: Secret Writing from Edgar Poe to the Internet (originally published 1997; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Shawn Rosenheim (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Americanist (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Daniel Aaron (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prejudices: Fourth Series (New York: A. A. Knopf, c1924), by H. L. Mencken (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies in Classic American Literature (New York: T. Seltzer, 1923), by D. H. Lawrence (Gutenberg text)
• A Book of Prefaces (fourth edition; New York: A. A. Knopf, 1922), by H. L. Mencken (Gutenberg text)
• American Literature (Richmond, VA: Johnson Pub. Co., c1921), by John Calvin Metcalf
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The American Spirit in Literature: A Chronicle of Great Interpreters, by Bliss Perry (Gutenberg text)
• The American Spirit in Literature: A Chronicle of Great Interpreters (New Haben: Yale University Press; et al., 1918), by Bliss Perry
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• History of American Literature, by Reuben Post Halleck (Gutenberg text)
• Initial Studies in American Letters (New York: Chautauqua Press, 1891), by Henry A. Beers (Gutenberg text)
• Letters and Leadership (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1918), by Van Wyck Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literature and Life, by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)
• A Primer of American Literature (new and revised edition; Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1883), by Charles F. Richardson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Primer of American Literature (new and revised edition; Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1891), by Charles F. Richardson (page images at Pitt)
• A Student's History of American Literature, by William Edward Simonds (frame- and JavaScript-dependent HTML at Bibliomania)
• A Student's History of American Literature (Boston et al.: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1909), by William Edward Simonds
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Crossing the Shadow-Line: The Literature of Estrangement (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by Martin Bock (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Look of Distance: Reflections on Suffering and Sympathy in Modern Literature, Auden to Agee, Whitman to Woolf (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1985), by Walter J. Slatoff
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State
• The Negro Character in American Literature (Humanistic Studies v4 #1; Lawrence, KS: Dept. of Journalism Press, 1926), by John Herbert Nelson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Art, Literature, and the Drama (New York: The Tribune Association, 1869), by Margaret Fuller, ed. by Arthur B. Fuller, contrib. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Art, Literature, and the Drama (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1889), by Margaret Fuller, ed. by Arthur B. Fuller, contrib. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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)
• Literature and Art (New York: Fowlers and Wells, 1852), by Margaret Fuller, contrib. by Horace Greeley (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Magazine Writing and the New Literature (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1908), by Henry Mills Alden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Prose Writers of America; With a Survey of the History, Condition, and Prospects of American Literature (Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1847), ed. by Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes (based on editions by New York: G. Putnam's Sons, 1907-1921), ed. by Adolphus William Ward, A. R. Waller, William P. Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, and Carl Van Doren (HTML at Bartleby)
• Literary Byways (London: W. Andrews and Co., 1898), by William Andrews (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• History of American literature, by Leonidas Warren Payne, jr. (Chicago, New York, Rand, McNally & company, [c1919]), by Leonidas Warren Payne (page images at HathiTrust)
• American ideals, character and life. (Chautauqua, N.Y., Chautauqua press, [1915]), by Hamilton Wright Mabie (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of literature in America, by Barrett Wendell ... and Chester Noyes Greenough. (New York, C. Scribner's sons, 1907), by Barrett Wendell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of American literature, with a view to the fundamental principles underlying its development; a text-book for schools and colleges, by Fred Lewis Pattee. (New York, Boston [etc.] Silver, Burdett and company, [1903]), by Fred Lewis Pattee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American mind and American idealism, by Bliss Perry. (Boston, New York [etc.] Houghton Mifflin company, [c1913]), by Bliss Perry (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of American literature, by Leonidas Warren Payne, jr. (Chicago, New York, Rand, McNally & company, [c1919]), by Leonidas Warren Payne (page images at HathiTrust)
• A short history of England's and America's literature, by Eva March Tappan ... (Boston, New York [etc.] Houghton Mifflin Company, [c1921]), by Eva March Tappan (page images at HathiTrust)
• American literature. (Philadelphia, Eldredge & brother, 1894), by Albert Henry Smyth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures on American literature, with remarks on some passages of American history. By Samuel L. Knapp ... ([New York] E. Bliss, 1829), by Samuel Lorenzo Knapp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Art, literature, and the drama, by Margaret Fuller Ossoli ... edited by her brother, Arthur B. Fuller. (Boston, Roberts brothers, 1889), by Margaret Fuller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The spirit of American literature, (Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & company, 1913), by John Albert Macy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Introduction to American literature, including illustrative selections, with notes, (Boston, Chicago, Sibley & company, 1916), by F. V. N. Painter (page images at HathiTrust)
• American literary readings, (Chicago, New York, Rand, McNally & company, [c1918]), by Leonidas Warren Payne (page images at HathiTrust)
• American literature. (Philadelphia, Eldredge & brother, 1898), by Albert Henry Smyth (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of American literature, by Percy H. Boynton. (Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn and company, [c1919]), by Percy Holmes Boynton (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of American literature, by William B. Cairns. (New York [etc.] Oxford university press, American branch, 1912), by William B. Cairns (page images at HathiTrust)
• Newspaper poets: or, Waifs and their authors (Rochester, N.Y., Rural home publishing company, 1876), by Alphonso A. Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stelligeri, and other essays concerning America, (New York, C. Scribner's sons, 1893), by Barrett Wendell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The maniac's confession, a fragment of a tale. By J. W. Simmons ... (Philadelphia, M. Thomas, 1821), by J. W. Simmons (page images at HathiTrust)
• American literary masters, by Leon H. Vincent (Gutenberg ebook)
• Carlyle's laugh, and other surprises, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Prejudices: Fourth Series, by H. L. Mencken (Gutenberg ebook)
• Prejudices, First Series, by H. L. Mencken (Gutenberg ebook)
• Prejudices, Third Series, by H. L. Mencken (Gutenberg ebook)
• Prejudices, Second Series, by H. L. Mencken (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Manual of American Literature, ed. by Theodore Stanton (Gutenberg ebook)
• A History of American Literature, by Percy Holmes Boynton (Gutenberg ebook)
• Shelburne Essays, Third Series, by Paul Elmer More (Gutenberg ebook)
• Literature in the Making, by Some of Its Makers, ed. by Joyce Kilmer (Gutenberg ebook)
• Children's Stories in American Literature, 1660-1860, by Henrietta Christian Wright (Gutenberg ebook)
• The American Mind: The E. T. Earl Lectures, by Bliss Perry (Gutenberg ebook)
• Brief History of English and American Literature, by Henry A. Beers (Gutenberg ebook)
• Some Diversions of a Man of Letters, by Edmund Gosse (Gutenberg ebook)

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