Some of the Books
on American Literature and Culture Available at the D'Alzon Library
Below you
will find a list of books that you can consult in the process of doing research
on topics related to American literature and culture. This list is by no means
complete: I expect that you will find many resources in the D'Alzon library
that you can use to pursue your investigations of your topic. However, here
are some works you may find useful.
The
books preceded by an asterisk are works that I have ordered or will order
for the D’Alzon library. All of the
other items listed below are already in our collections.
Literary History and Criticism
American
Literary Scholarship. Durham,
N.C.: Duke University Press. Annual,
1963-.
Jorge
Luis Borges in collaboration with Esther Zemborain de Torres. An Introduction
to American Literature. Translated & edited by L. Clark Keating &
Robert O. Evans. Lexington: University
Press of Kentucky, 1971.
Harold
K. Bush, American Declarations: Rebellion and Repentance in American Cultural
History. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999.
Dictionary
of Literary Biography. Detroit: Gale Research Company.
James
D. Hart , The Oxford Companion To American Literature, with revisions
and additions by Phillip W. Leininger. 6th
ed. New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
*David
D. Hall. Cultures of Print: Essays in the History of the Book. Amherst:
University of Massachusetts Press, 1996.
The
Heritage of America. Edited by Henry Steele Commanger and Allan Nevis.
Boston: D.C. Heath, 1949.
Interpretations
of American Literature.
Edited by Charles Feidelson, Jr. and Paul Brodtkorb, Jr. New York : Oxford University Press, 1959.
Howard
Mumford Jones, Belief and Disbelief in American Literature. Chicago:
University of Chicago Pres, 1967.
Howard
Mumford Jones and Richard M. Ludwig. Guide To American Literature And Its
Backgrounds Since 1890. Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard University Press, 1972.
Howard
Mumford Jones, Ideas in America. New York: Russell & Russell, 1965.
D.
H. Lawrence. Studies in Classic American Literature.
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1930.
Literary
History of the United States. Edited by Robert E. Spiller. Third ed.. New York: Macmillan, 1963.
Kenneth
Lynn. Visions of America: Eleven Literary Historical.
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1973.
Brander
Matthews. An Introduction to the Study of American Literature.
New York: American Book Company, 1896.
Vernon
Louis Parrington. Main Currents in American Thought. New York : Harcourt,
Brace, 1954
The
Penguin Companion To American Literature. Edited by Malcolm Bradbury, Eric Mottram and Jean Franco. New York: McGraw-Hill,
1971.
*Reading in
America: Literature and Social History. Edited by Cathy N. Davidson. Baltimore:
John Hopkins Univesity Press, 19898.
Robert
Ernest Spiller. Late Harvest: Essays
and Addresses in American Literature. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press,
1980.
Reconstructing
the Canon:
The
American Indian Reader. Edited by Jeannette Henry. San Francisco: Indian Historian Press, 1972.
Nina
Baym. Feminism and American Literary History: Essays.
New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1992.
Children’s
Literature: An Illustrated History. Edited by Peter Hunt. Oxford: New York, Oxford University Press,
1995.
Susan
Lobo. Native American Voices: A Reader. New York: Longman, 1998.
The
Norton Anthology of African American Literature. Edited by Henry Louis Gates,
Jr. and Nellie Y. McKay. New York:
W.W. Norton & Co., 1996.
*The
Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing in the United States. Edited by Cathy N. Davidson, Linda Wagner-Martin
and Elizabeth Ammons. London: Oxford University Press, 1995.
The
Penguin Companion to American Literature. Edited by Malcolm Bradbury,
Eric Mottram and Jean Franco. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971.
The
Portable North American Indian Reader.
Edited by Frederick W. Turner III. New
York: Viking Press, 1974.
*Slave
Narratives. Edited by William L. Andrews and Henry Louis
Gates, Jr. New York: Library of America,
2000.
White
on Red: Images of the American Indian.
Edited by Nancy B. Black and Bette S. Weidman,. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat
Press, 1976.
Reconstructing
American Literary History.
Edited by Sacvan Bercovitch. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986.
The Colonial
and Early National Period:
Sacvan
Bercovitch. The American Jeremiad. Madison:
University of Wisconsin Press, 1978.
Sacan
Bercovitch. The American Puritan Imagination; Essays in Revaluation.
London: Cambridge University Press, 1974.
Sacvan
Bercovitch. The Puritan Origins of the American Self. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975.
*Cathy
Davidson. Revolution and the Word. New York: Oxford University Press,
1986.
Anne
MacVicar Grant. Memoirs Of An American
Lady, With Sketches Of Manners And Scenes In America As They Existed Previous
To The Revolution. With Unpublished Letters And A Memoir Of Mrs. Grant
by James Grant Wilson. Freeport, N.Y.:
Books for Libraries Press, 1972.
*David
Hall. Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early
New England. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990.
Howard
Mumford Jones. O Strange New World; American Culture: The Formative Years. New York: Viking Press, 1964.
*Jill
Lepore. The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the
Origins of American Identity. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press,
1997.
Major
Writers of Early American Literature.
Edited by Everett Emerson. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1973.
Perry
Miller. Errand into the Wilderness. New York:
Harper & Row, 1964.
The
Roots Of National Culture: American Literature To 1830. Edited by Robert E. Spiller and Harold Blodgett. New York : Macmillan, 1949.
Aldern
Vaughan. Roots of American Racism: Essays on the Colonial
Experience. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1995.
Marilyn
Westerkamp, Women and Religion in Early America, 1600-1550: The Puritan
and Evangelical Traditions. London: Routledge, 1999.
Nineteenth
Century American Literature and Culture
American
Realists and Naturalists.
Edited by Donald Pizer and Earl N. Harbert. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research
Company, 1982.
The
American Renaissance in New England. Edited by Wesley T. Mott. Detroit: Gale Group, 2000.
American
Thought: Civil War to World War I. Edited by Perry Miller. New York: Rinehart, 1954.
Barbara
Bardes and Suzanne Gossett. Declarations
of Independence: Women and Political Power in Nineteenth-Century American
Fiction. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press.
Nina
Baym. Woman’s Fiction: A Guide to Novels By and
About Women in America, 1820-1870. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press,
1978.
Michael
Davitt Bell. The Problem Of American Realism: Studies In The Cultural History
Of A Literary Idea. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
*Richard
H. Brodhead. Cultures of Letters:
Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1994.
*Scott
Caspar. Constructing American Lives: Biography and Culture in Nineteenth-Century
America. University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
Richard
Volney Chase. Walt Whitman Reconsidered. New York: William Sloane Associates,
1955.
*The
Culture of Sentiment: Race, Gender, and Sentimentality in Nineteenth-Century
America. Edited by Shirley Samuels. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
The
Frontier Experience: Readings in the Trans-Mississippi West. Edited
by Robert V. Hine and Edwin R. Bingham. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing
Co., 1963.
Sandra
M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar The Madwoman In The Attic : The Woman Writer
And The Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1979.
Confidence
Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America, 1830-1870. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.
*The
Power of Culture: Critical Essays in American History. Edited by Richard Wightman Fox. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Masterpieces
of American Literature: Franklin,
Irving, Bryant, Webster, Everett, Longfellow, Hawthorne, Whittier, Emerson,
Holmes, Lowell, Thoreau, O’Rielly: with Biographical Sketches and Portraits. Boston:
Houglin, Mifflin and Company, 1891.
*Periodical
Literature in Nineteenth-Century America. Edited by Kenneth M. Price and
Susan Belasco Smith. University Press of Virginia, 1995.
Perry
Miller. Nature’s Nation. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University,
1957.
Perry
Miller. The American Transcendentalists, Their Prose and Poetry. Garden City, NY.: Doubleday, 1957.
*Sarah
Newton. Learning to Behave. Greenwood Publishing, 1994.
Edd
Winfield Parks, Ante-bellum Southern Literary Critics.
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1962
The
Profession of Authorship in America, 1800-1870. The Papers of William Charvat. Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1968.
Henry
Nash Smith, Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 1971 reprint of 1950 work.
Christine Stansell.
City of Women: Sex and Class
in New York, 1789-1860. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1987.
*Harriet
Beecher Stowe. A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts
and Documents Upon Which the Story is Based. Reprinted by Applewood Books,
1998.
The
Transcendentalists: An Anthology. Edited
by Perry Miller. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 1971. c. 1954.
Gary
Wills, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
Twentieth
Century American Literature and Culture:
After
the Genteel Tradition: American Writers, 1910-1930. Edited by Malcolm Cowley. Caronbdale:
Southern Illinois University Press, 1964.
The
American Novel And The Nineteen Twenties.
Edited by Malcolm Bradbury and David Palmer. London: E. Arnold, 1971.
James
Baldwin. Collected Essays. New
York: Library of America, 1998.
James
Baldwin. Nobody Knows My Name; More Notes of a Native
Son. New York, Dial Press, 1961.
Black
American Poets and Dramatists of the Harlem Renaissance. Edited
by Harold Bloom. (New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1995.
Malcolm
Cowley. A Second Flowering: Works and Days of the Lost Generation.
New York: Viking Press, 1973.
Louise
Gossett. Violence in Recent Southern Fiction. Durham,
N.C.: Duke University Press, 1965.
Marie
E. Rodgers. The Harlem Renaissance: An Annotated Reference Guide for Student
Research. Libraries Unlimited, 1998.
The
Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940.
Edited by Cary D. Wintz. New York: Garland Publishing, 1996.
Murray
Krieger. The Classic Vision: The Retreat from Extremity
in Modern Literature. Baltimore: John Hopkins Press, 1995.
*Joan
Shelley Rubin. The Making of Middle-Brow Culture. Chapel Hill: University
of North Carolina Press, 1992.
Richard
Ruland. The Rediscovery of American Literature: Premises of Critical Taste,
1900-1940. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967.
Sixteen Modern
American Authors: A Survey of Research and Criticism.
Edited by Jackson R. Ryer. Durham,
N.C.: Duke University Press, 1974.
*Richard Slotkin.
Regeneration through Violence. Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 1971.
Willard Thorp.
American Writing in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 1965.
Steven C. Tracy.
Langston Hughes & the Blues. Urbana: University of Illinois
Press, 1988.
Voices from
the Harlem Renaissance. Edited by Nathan Irvin Huggins. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1994.