English and American Literature  Tags: american_literature amlit literature english united_states_literature irish_literature renaissance medieval 19th_century_british 20th_century 20th_century_transatlantic anglophone_caribbean_literatures british early_modern restoration 18th_century theory  

American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections.

Searchable online presentations of text, sound, and image related to leading modern poets.

Searchable, SGML/XML tagged versions of a variety of texts from English and American literature. Click on the “Collections” button to find tagged texts. Downloadable e-books are also now available.

This is a collection of 19th-century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. Includes approximately 1,900 texts.

Online audio of poetry, short-stories, novels, and more.

National Archives has some surprising holdings relevant to literary research and cultural studies.

"...the online catalog of NARA's nationwide holdings in the Washington, DC area, Regional Archives and Presidential Libraries."

An extremely useful site that provides access to cataloging of manuscript collections in both RLIN and OCLC. Information from more than half a million records can be found through this site.

Includes an extensive list of American literature sites.

Searchable SGML/XML tagged versions of texts from English and American literature. Click on the “Text Collections” button to access the American Verse Project.