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• Secrecy, Magic, and the One-Act Plays of Harlem Renaissance Women Writers (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Taylor Hagood (PDF at Ohio State)

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• The Kukkurrik Fables: 44 Mini-Plays for All Media (second edition, revised and augmented; 2008), by Oscar Mandel (PDF at Caltech)
• The People; and Close the Book: Two One-Act Plays (New York: F. Shay, 1918), by Susan Glaspell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Twentieth Century Trilogy, by Martha Keltz (HTML and Word in the UK)
• The Provincetown Plays (Cincinnati: Stewart Kidd Co., c1921), ed. by George Cram Cook and Frank Shay, contrib. by George Cram Cook, Susan Glaspell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Pendleton King, James Oppenheim, Neith Boyce, Hutchins Hapgood, Floyd Dell, Eugene O'Neill, Alice Rostetter, Rita Wellman, and Wilbur Daniel Steele (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Provincetown Plays, First Series (New York: F. Shay, 1916), ed. by Frank Shay, contrib. by Eugene O'Neill, Louise Stevens Bryant, and Floyd Dell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Provincetown Plays, Third Series (New York: Frank Shay, 1916), contrib. by Neith Boyce, Alfred Kreymborg, and Eugene O'Neill (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Staging Desire: Queer Readings of American Theater History (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), ed. by Kim Marra and Robert A. Schanke (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Performing America: Cultural Nationalism in American Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1999), ed. by Jeffrey D. Mason and J. Ellen Gainor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shouts and Murmurs: Echoes of a Thousand and One First Nights (New York: The Century Co., 1922), by Alexander Woollcott (page images at HathiTrust)

• Staging Consciousness: Theater and the Materialization of Mind (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by William W. Demastes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dreaming America: Popular Front Ideals and Aesthetics in Children's Plays of the Federal Theatre Project (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Leslie Elaine Frost (PDF at Ohio State)

• Act Like a Man: Challenging Masculinities in American Drama (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1995), by Robert Vorlicky
  • multiple formats at fulcrum.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Dreaming America: Popular Front Ideals and Aesthetics in Children's Plays of the Federal Theatre Project (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Leslie Elaine Frost (PDF at Ohio State)
• Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies: Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2010), by James F. Wilson (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by William B. Worthen (HTML at UC Press)
• Murder Most Queer: The Homicidal Homosexual in the American Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2014), by Jordan Schildcrout (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Secrecy, Magic, and the One-Act Plays of Harlem Renaissance Women Writers (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Taylor Hagood (PDF at Ohio State)
• Arena (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, c1940), by Hallie Flanagan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies: Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2010), by James F. Wilson (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Secrecy, Magic, and the One-Act Plays of Harlem Renaissance Women Writers (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Taylor Hagood (PDF at Ohio State)

• Secrecy, Magic, and the One-Act Plays of Harlem Renaissance Women Writers (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Taylor Hagood (PDF at Ohio State)

• Theft! A History of Music (2017), by Keith Aoki, James Boyle, and Jennifer Jenkins (PDF with commentary at Duke)
• Music: Its Language, History, and Culture (c2014), by Ray Allen, Douglas Cohen, Nancy Barnes Hager, and Jeffrey Taylor (illustrated HTML with commentary at cuny.edu)
• An Outline-History of Music (New York: Barnes and Noble, c1947), by Hugh Milton Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Art Melodious (third edition, augmented; London and New York: F. Tennyson Neely, c1897), by Louis Lombard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chopin, and Other Musical Essays (New Yor: C. Scribner's Sons, 1894), by Henry T. Finck (Gutenberg text)
• The History of Music: A Handbook and Guide for Students (New York: G. Schirmer, c1907), by Waldo Selden Pratt (PDF at djm.cc)
• The Magic of Tone and the Art of Music, by Dane Rudhyar (HTML at khaldea.com)
• Critical Reflections on Poetry, Painting and Music; With an Inquiry into the Rise and Progress of the Theatrical Entertainments of the Ancients (3 volumes; London: Printed for J. Nourse, 1748), by abbé Dubos, trans. by Thomas Nugent
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Plays, Acting and Music: A Book of Theory (revised edition; London: Constable and Co., 1909), by Arthur Symons (Gutenberg text)

• The Politics of Shelley: History, Theory, Form (2015), ed. by Matthew C. Borushko (illustrated HTML at romantic-circles.org)

• Proverbs, Textuality, and Nativism in African Literature (Gainesville, FL et al.: University Press of Florida, c1998), by Adéléke Adéè̳kó̳ (page images at HathiTrust)

• Do the Americas Have a Common Literature? (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1990), ed. by Gustavo Pérez Firmat (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Form of American Romance (originally published 1988; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Edgar A. Dryden (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Tactics of the Human: Experimental Technics in American Fiction (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014), by Laura Shackelford (illustrated HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• America's Gothic Fiction: The Legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Dorothy Zayatz Baker (PDF at Ohio State)
• Dwelling in the Text: Houses in American Fiction (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre (HTML at UC Press)
• The American Novel (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Carl Van Doren (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
• Some American Story Tellers (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1911), by Frederic Taber Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Interpretive Conventions: The Reader in the Study of American Fiction (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Steven Mailloux (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Individual and Community: Variations on a Theme in American Fiction (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1975), ed. by Kenneth Huntress Baldwin and David Kirby, contrib. by Edgar A. Dryden, J. V. Ridgely, Roy Harvey Pearce, Louis D. Rubin, Carlos Baker, Philip Momberger, James E. Miller, James Baird, and Edward Mendelson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buried Caesars: Essays in Literary Appreciation (Chicago: Covici-McGee Co., 1923), by Vincent Starrett (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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 files 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)
• Enthusiast! Essays on Modern American Literature (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, c2007), by David Herd (PDF files with commentary at manchesterhive.com)
• 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)
• Lionel Trilling and the Fate of Cultural Criticism (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1986), by Mark Krupnick (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
• 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
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• A Book of Prefaces (fourth edition; New York: A. A. Knopf, 1922), by H. L. Mencken (Gutenberg text)
• 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 Manual of American Literature: A Text-Book for Schools and Colleges (Philadelphia: Eldredge and Brother, 1873), by John S. Hart
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Prejudices: Fourth Series (New York: A. A. Knopf, c1924), by H. L. Mencken (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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
• Studies in Classic American Literature (New York: T. Seltzer, 1923), by D. H. Lawrence (Gutenberg text)
• 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
• Brief History of English and American Literature (New York: Eaton and Mains; Cincinnati: Jennings and Pye, c1897), by Henry A. Beers (Gutenberg text)
• 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)

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