Hypertexts

American Literature to 1900
Nation and Narration

Hypertexts

Location: [Reed College] [Department of English] [Laura Arnold] [Nation and Narration]

Hypertexts are electronic versions of books. The following is a list of hypertexts for books we will be reading this semester along with resources on the authors. Many of the links are taken from Ann Woodlief's web page on American Romanticism at Virginia Commonwealth University. I encourage you to browse her site as well.

William Cullen Bryant:
Poems of William Cullen Bryant

William Ellery Channing:
Channing Page

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Emerson Page
Self-Reliance hypertext
Another Emerson page

Henry David Thoreau:
CyberSaunter
The Electronic Drummer
Thoreau and his Works
"A Step Beyond" (or How to Read Walden Without Really Trying--An amusing page suggested by Bridget Cross)

Herman Melville:
Life and Works of Herman Melville
Herman Melville

Nathaniel Hawthorne:
Notes on "The Blithedale Romance"
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Life and Works

Margaret Fuller:
Margaret Fuller Society Homepage

Frederick Douglass:
Narrative of the Life

Walt Whitman:
Leaves of Grass
Life and Works of Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive

Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (British)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Henry Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Portrait...
Longfellow on Revere...

Harriet Beecher Stowe
Poems by Stowe
Stowe Home Page

Poetry:
to see a list of American Renaissance poetry hypertexts click here


The following are some general links that you might find useful when you are searching for texts or information about authors:

19thC American Women Writers Web

American Studies Resources on the Internet: Literature and Hypertext

On-Line Literary Research Tools

Books on Line, Listed by Title

Books on Line, Listed by Author

Dictionaries & Language References

Electronic Publishing in the Pre- and Post- Gutenberg Age. Warner Books

Internet and the Writer

Literature Hot Links

Oxford University Press

Project Gutenberg Home Page

World Wide Web Virtual Library

Yahoo: Literature


url of this page -- Revised: 11/6/96
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