Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Poetic Presence and Illusion: Essays in Critical History and Theory (originally published 1979; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Murray Krieger (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)- Writing, Medium, Machine: Modern Technographies (London: Open Humanities Press, 2016), ed. by Sean Pryor and David Trotter (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
- Revenge of the Aesthetic: The Place of Literature in Theory Today (Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000), ed. by Michael Clark (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
- Framing Theory's Empire (West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, c2007), ed. by John Holbo (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Seductive Reasoning: Pluralism as the Problematic of Contemporary Literary Theory (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Ellen Rooney
- The First Sail: J. Hillis Miller ("a film book"; London: Open Humanities Press, 2015), ed. by Dragan Kujundzic (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
- Romantic Sobriety: Sensation, Revolution, Commodification, History (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2011), by Orrin N. C. Wang (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Mammonart: An Essay in Economic Interpretation (Pasadena, CA: The author, c1925), by Upton Sinclair (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Flight From Eden: The Origins of Modern Literary Criticism and Theory (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Steven Cassedy (HTML at UC Press)
- The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism (1920 edition), by T. S. Eliot (HTML at Bartleby)
- The Fusion of Horatian and Aristotelian Literary Criticism, 1531-1555 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1946), by Marvin T. Herrick (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Essay of Dramatic Poesy (third edition; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1918), by John Dryden, ed. by Thomas Arnold and William T. Arnold (multiple formats at archive.org)
- European Theories of the Drama (Cincinnati: Stewart and Kidd, 1918), ed. by Barrett H. Clark (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Job, Boethius, and Epic Truth (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1994), by Ann W. Astell (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
- Literature Against Criticism: University English and Contemporary Fiction in Conflict (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2016), by Martin Paul Eve (HTML and PDF with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- The Rhetoric of Fictionality: Narrative Theory and the Idea of Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Richard Walsh (PDF at Ohio State)
- The Novel-Machine: The Theory and Fiction of Anthony Trollope (originally published 1980; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Walter M. Kendrick (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
- The End of Books, or Books Without End? Reading Interactive Narratives (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by J. Yellowlees Douglas (page images at HathiTrust)
- The End of Books, or Books Without End? Reading Interactive Narratives (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by J. Yellowlees Douglas (page images at HathiTrust)
- Come As You Are, After Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (Earth: Punctum Books, c2021), by Jonathan Goldberg and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (PDF with commentary at punctumbooks.com)
- The Reminiscences of Alexander Dyce (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1972), by Alexander Dyce, ed. by Richard J. Schrader (PDF at Ohio State)
- The Reminiscences of Alexander Dyce (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1972), by Alexander Dyce, ed. by Richard J. Schrader (PDF at Ohio State)
- Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance: A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism (1922), by Donald Lemen Clark (Gutenberg text)
- A Room of One's Own (1929), by Virginia Woolf (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
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Filed under: Literature -- History and criticism- Literary Lectures Presented at the Library of Congress (Washington: Library of Congress, 1973), contrib. by Thomas Mann, T. S. Eliot, R. P. Blackmur, Archibald Henderson, Irving Stone, John O'Hara, MacKinlay Kantor, John Crowe Ransom, Delmore Schwartz, John Hall Wheelock, Robert Hillyer, Pierre Emmanuel, Cleanth Brooks, Richard Wilbur, Leon Edel, Alain Bosquet, Hans Egon Holthusen, Erich Heller, Marc Slonim, Lin Yutang, Giose Rimanelli, Arturo Torres-Rioseco, Stephen Spender, Saul Bellow, Louis Untermeyer, Ralph Ellison, Karl Shapiro, and Reed Whittemore (page images at HathiTrust)
- Books Alive: A Profane Chronicle of Literary Endeavor and Literary Misdemeanor (New York: Random House, 1940), by Vincent Starrett, contrib. by Christopher Morley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dark Conceit: The Making of Allegory (open access reprint; originally published Evanston: Northwestern University Press, ca. 1959), by Edwin Honig (PDF at Northwestern)
- It Needs to Be Said... (c1929), by Frederick Philip Grove (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Books and Habits From the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn, by Lafcadio Hearn, ed. by John Erskine (Gutenberg text)
- The Cutting of an Agate (New York: Macmillan, 1912), by W. B. Yeats
- Essays (New York: Harper and Bros., 1922), by Percy Stickney Grant
- Essays in Little, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Function of the Poet, and Other Essays, by James Russell Lowell, ed. by Albert Mordell (Gutenberg text)
- Handbook of Universal Literature, From the Best and Latest Authorities, by Anne C. Lynch Botta (Gutenberg text)
- Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature (partial serial archives)
- Hieroglyphics (London: Grant Richards, 1902), by Arthur Machen (page images at Google; US access only)
- Initiation Into Literature, by Émile Faguet, trans. by Home Gordon (Gutenberg text)
- Letters on Literature, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)
- Literary Hours: or, Sketches Critical, Narrative, and Poetical (third edition, 3 volumes; London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804), by Nathan Drake (page images at HathiTrust)
- My Literary Passions, by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)
- Post Liminium: Essays and Critical Papers (London: E. Mathews, 1911), by Lionel Johnson, ed. by Thomas Whittemore (page images at HathiTrust)
- Pot-Boilers (London: Chatto and Windus, 1918), by Clive Bell (Gutenberg text)
- Studies, Stories, and Memoirs (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1888), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Warner Classics (4 volumes of essays, selected from the introductions to authors in his Library of the World's Best Literature collection; New York: Doubleday and McClure Co., 1899), ed. by Charles Dudley Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Works of William H. Prescott (Montezuma edition, 22 volumes; Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1904), by William Hickling Prescott, ed. by Wilfred Harold Munro, contrib. by John Foster Kirk, William Robertson, and George Ticknor
- Obiter Dicta, by Augustine Birrell (Gutenberg text)
- Interpretations of Poetry and Religion (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1900), by George Santayana (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Letters to Dead Authors, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)
- The Aesthetic and Miscellaneous Works of Friedrich von Schlegel: Comprising Letters on Christian Art; An Essay on Gothic Architecture; Remarks on the Romance-Poetry of the Middle Ages and on Shakspere; On the Limits of the Beautiful; On the Language and Wisdom of the Indians (London: H. G. Bohn, 1860), by Friedrich von Schlegel, trans. by E. J. Millington
- Kleinere Schriften (3 volumes, in German; Weimar: E. Felber, 1898-1900), by Reinhold Köhler, ed. by Johannes Bolte
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