Paul P. Reuben Website

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide
An Ongoing Project

© Paul P. Reuben Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Department of English
California State University, Stanislaus

| Alphabetical List: 457 American Author Pages: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y Z |

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Table of Contents Appendices

Chap. 1: Early American Lit to 1700
Chap. 2: Early Amer. Lit 1700-1800
Chap. 3: 19th C Romanticism
Chap. 4: 19th C Transcendentalism
Chap. 5: Late 19th C Realism
Chap. 6: Late 19th C Naturalism
Chap. 7: Early 20th C and Modernism
Chap. 8: American Drama
Chap. 9: The Harlem Renaissance
Chap. 10: Late 20th C. and Postmodernism

A: Resources for Research
B: Minorities and Women Studies
C: American Fiction
D: Writing Assignments
E: Alienation and Initiation
F: Elements of Poetry
G: Elements of Fiction
H: Elements of Drama
I: The MLA Style
J: Research Topics
K: Literary History & Theory
L: The Frontier
M: Film Criticism
N: American Gothic

O: Studies in Poetry
P: California Lit
Q: American Folklore
R: American Humor, Satire, and Wit
S: The American Dream
T: Manifest Destiny
U: Nature, Ecocrit, & Ecofeminism
V: The American City
W: The Changing American Landscape
X: Contemporary Adoptions of Early American Texts, Authors, & Topics
Y: Sympathy in American Literature

Preface

First published as a book (hence the site's format), this ongoing project is now available only online; it is a research and reference tool, not a term paper factory. Useful to Americans who have no or limited access to university libraries and academic databases, it is also helpful to international readers interested in American literature.

This online book is organized in chapters and appendices. The ten chapters represent the major literary and historical perspectives, cycles, or movements in American literature; each chapter has an Introduction, a Selected Bibliography, and a list of representative authors. The twenty-two appendices cover a range of helpful and specialized topics in genre studies, writing assignments, research topics, and perspectives related to American studies.

This PAL site has individual pages on over 430 American authors. Except for a few, each page has a listing of primary works, a selected bibliography, links to relevant sites, brief introductions, brief biographies, and study questions.

December 2010: Almost all of the nearly 500 PAL pages have recently been updated. Since they consume too much server space and require constant updating, the listings of most of the articles, dissertation abstracts, and reviews have been deleted. Except for a few author pages, the Selected Bibliographies now include biographical and critical book titles published 1980-Present in English in the USA.

Please note that many of the study questions, which appear on different PAL pages, are taken from John Alberti, ed. the Instructor's Guide for the Heath Anthology, Second Edition, 1994, and Marjorie Pryse, Teaching with the Norton Anthology of American Literature, Fourth Edition, 1994.

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Table of Contents	Appendices
Chap. 1: Early American Lit to 1700 Chap. 2: Early Amer. Lit 1700-1800 Chap. 3: 19th C Romanticism Chap. 4: 19th C Transcendentalism Chap. 5: Late 19th C Realism Chap. 6: Late 19th C Naturalism Chap. 7: Early 20th C and Modernism Chap. 8: American Drama Chap. 9: The Harlem Renaissance Chap. 10: Late 20th C. and Postmodernism	A: Resources for Research B: Minorities and Women Studies C: American Fiction D: Writing Assignments E: Alienation and Initiation F: Elements of Poetry G: Elements of Fiction H: Elements of Drama I: The MLA Style J: Research Topics K: Literary History & Theory L: The Frontier M: Film Criticism N: American Gothic	O: Studies in Poetry P: California Lit Q: American Folklore R: American Humor, Satire, and Wit S: The American Dream T: Manifest Destiny U: Nature, Ecocrit, & Ecofeminism V: The American City W: The Changing American Landscape X: Contemporary Adoptions of Early American Texts, Authors, & Topics Y: Sympathy in American Literature