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• The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1992), by Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse (HTML at UC Press)

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• Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect (originally published 1998; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Hayden V. White (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Essays on History and Literature (in honor of Foster Rhea Dulles; Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1966), ed. by Robert H. Bremner, contrib. by Daniel Aaron, Edward Lurie, Stow Persons, Russel B. Nye, Margaret E. Kahn, and George Schoyer (PDF at Ohio State)
• Whose History? Engaging History Students Through Historical Fiction (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2013), by Grant Rodwell (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)
• Matters of Fact: Reading Nonfiction Over the Edge (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1997), by Daniel W. Lehman (PDF at Ohio State)
• History as Literature, and Other Essays, by Theodore Roosevelt (HTML at Bartleby)
• History as literature, and other essays (C. Scribner's sons, 1913), by Theodore Roosevelt (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'écrivain et l'art social ... (Bibliothèque de l'Art social, 1896), by Bernard Lazare (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeares stellung zum hause Lancaster. (C. Forger's druckerei, 1904), by Wilhelm Büttner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Deutsche Vergangenheit in deutscher Dichtung : [Deutsche Renaissance] : Rede bei Übernahme des Rektorats der Schlesischen Friedrich Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau, am 30. September 1918 (Metzler, 1919), by Max Koch and Schlesische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Storia civile nella letteraria (E. Loescher, 1872), by Niccolò Tommaseo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Influencia del espíritu y de la literatura en la grandeza y decadencia de los pueblos : carta a Da. Juana Manuela Gorriti (Porvenir, 1878), by José Francisco López (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical sketches of English and American literature, embracing an account of the principal productions of the most distinguished authors in Great Britain and the United States, from the earliest to the present period ... (Edward Hopkins, 1845), by Robert Chambers and Royal Robbins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de la littérature française sous la restauration (Lecoffre, 1874), by Alfred Nettement (page images at HathiTrust)
• De l'influence des évènemens politiques sur la littérature, depuis 1789. (C. Béchet, 1829), by Jean Baptiste Pérennès (page images at HathiTrust)
• Människokunskap; en studie över den historiska och den konstnärliga kunskapen (A. Bonnier, 1920), by John Landquist (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Études d'histoire et de littérature. (E. Vitte, 1900), by Edmond Biré (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A study in the determination of historical references in English poetry (1919), by Sue Hutchison (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sophoclis tragoediae septem : cum animadversionibus Samuelis Musgravii M.D. Accedunt, praeter variantes lectt. editionum optimarum, Sophoclis fragmenta ex editione Brunckiana. Necnon index verborum. (Typhographeo Clarendoniano, 1809), by Sophocles, Rich. Fr. Phil. Brunck, and Samuel Musgrave (page images at HathiTrust)
• The relation of literature to history ([s.n,], 1903), by Lewis Einstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sophokles = Sophocles (Lefevre, 1824), by Sophocles and Jean François Boissonade (page images at HathiTrust)
• Martyrdoms of literature (C. H. Sergel, 1891), by Robert H. Vickers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Filosofīi͡a istorīi v russkoĭ literaturi͡e (Prometeĭ, 1912), by N. I. Kareev (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sobranīe sochinenīĭ (Kn-vo "Prometeĭ" N.N. Mikhaĭlova, 1912), by N. I. Kareev (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• This America; a study of literature interpreting the development of American civilization (The Educational Dept., Affiliated Schools for Workers inc., 1931), by Jean Carter Ogden, inc. Educational Dept Affiliated Schools for Workers, and Bryn Mawr College. Summer School for Women Workers in Industry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The historical novel : a celebration of the achievements of Herman Wouk (Library of Congress, 1999), by Barbara A. Paulson and Library of Congress (page images at HathiTrust)

• King Lear and the Naked Truth: Rethinking the Language of Religion and Resistance (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1998), by Judy Kronenfeld (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Empire Nowhere: England, America, and Literature from Utopia to The Tempest (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Jeffrey Knapp (HTML at UC Press)

• An Empire Nowhere: England, America, and Literature from Utopia to The Tempest (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Jeffrey Knapp (HTML at UC Press)

• Corneille's comedies as a mirror of contemporary events and of the theories of French polite society in the first half of the seventeenth century (Press of C. O. Barney & son, 1916), by Winfield S. Barney (page images at HathiTrust)

• Shakespeares stellung zum hause Lancaster. (C. Forger's druckerei, 1904), by Wilhelm Büttner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• English history in Shakespeare's plays (Longmans, Green, and co., 1894), by Beverley E. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• English history in Shakespeare's plays (Longmans, Green, and co., 1894), by Beverley E. Warner and George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lost Causes: Historical Consciousness in Victorian Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Jason B. Jones (PDF at Ohio State)

• Homer and History (London: Macmillan, 1915), by Walter Leaf (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fiction as History: Nero to Julian (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1994), by G. W. Bowersock (HTML at UC Press)

• Probidade litteraria : cartas a F. Ch (Typ. do Jornal do Commercio, 1874), by Augusto Soromenho (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)
• The past as present in the drama of August Wilson (University of Michigan Press, 2004), by Harry Justin Elam (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• 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)
• History and Utopia: A Study of the World View of James Fenimore Cooper, by Allan M. Axelrad (HTML at James Fenimore Cooper Society)
• Heartless immensity : literature, culture, and geography in antebellum America (University of Michigan Press, 2006), by Anne Baker (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)

• 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)
• Hypnotic Poetry: A Study of Trance-Inducing Technique in Certain Poems, and Its Literary Significance (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1930), by Edward Douglas Snyder, contrib. by James H. Leuba (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elegant Jeremiahs: The Sage from Carlyle to Mailer, by George P. Landow (HTML at Victorian Web)
• Brief History of English and American Literature, by Henry A. Beers (Gutenberg ebook)

• Caliban: French Journal of English Studies (in English and French; 2014-) (partial serial archives)

• Reading People, Reading Plots: Character, Progression, and the Interpretation of Narrative (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by James Phelan (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• Mother Without Child: Contemporary Fiction and the Crisis of Motherhood (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997), by Elaine Tuttle Hansen (HTML at UC Press)

• 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)

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