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• Interrogating Orientalism: Contextual Approaches and Pedagogical Practices (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), ed. by Diane Long Hoeveler and Jeffrey Cass (PDF at Ohio State)

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• Thrilling Cities (c1963), by Ian Fleming (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Die Hohenzollern am Heiligen Grabe zu Jerusalem, Insbesondere Die Pilgerfahrt der Markgrafen Johann und Albrecht von Brandenburg im Jahre 1435 (in German; Berlin: F. Duncker, 1858), by F. Geisheim (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Essays (New York: Harper and Bros., 1922), by Percy Stickney Grant
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• 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
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• 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
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google
• Kleinere Schriften (3 volumes, in German; Weimar: E. Felber, 1898-1900), by Reinhold Köhler, ed. by Johannes Bolte
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes; page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Études de Lettres (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Litera (partial serial archives)
• Sillages Critiques (in French) (full serial archives)
• SIC (Croatian journal of literature, culture and literary translation; 2010-) (full serial archives)
• Literaturnoe Nasledstvo (partial serial archives)
• Partisan Review (full serial archives)
• Forum der Letteren (in Dutch) (partial serial archives)
• The Public Domain Review (2011-) (full serial archives)
• De Gids (partial serial archives)
• Glendora Books Supplement (issues online 1997-2001) (partial serial archives)
• Alfa: Revista de Linguística (full serial archives)
• Cahiers de la Quinzaine (in French), ed. by Charles Péguy and Marcel Péguy (partial serial archives)
• The Critic (New York-based magazine) (full serial archives)
• The Illustrated Review (London, 1870-1874) (partial serial archives)
• Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte (in German) (partial serial archives)
• Baltimore Literary Monument (partial serial archives)
• The Reader (full serial archives)

• 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
  • PDF and Epub at Cornell Open
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
• 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)

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