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The Western Frontier


Connecting Text: The Autobiography of David Crockett

General Resources

 Lewis and Clark

 David Crockett

Davey Crockett: Bio and Selection

Davey Crockett: from the American West

Davy Crockett Timeline

Daniel Boone: from the American West

Daniel Boone: from Archiving Early America (read Boone's own narrative)

 



Early American Fiction
19th Century

Washington Irving
"The Devil and Tom Walker"

Washington Irving: Selections

James Fenimore Cooper

Edgar Allan Poe Sites

 

Transcendentalism

 

Anti-Transcndentalism: Hawthorne and Melville

 

Nathaniel Hawthorne: Novels and Short Stories

 

Hermman Melville
Moby Dick: a hypertext

Supplementary

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Sellections

Emily Dickinson

Visit The Emily Dickinson Museum

 

Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman: Revising Himself This Library of Congress exhibition traces this evolution of Leaves of Grass and Walt Whitman's life, tapping a range of editions and drafts of the famous work. A wealth of interesting biographical material on Whitman, his friends and associates, his work as a teacher, tending the wounded during the Civil War, and for the federal government, also appears in the exhibit

Walt Whitman Archive The Walt Whitman Archive includes a host of versions of Whitman's Leaves of Grass, numerous poetry manuscripts witn a related guide, a detailed biography of Whitman, and a bibliography of articles, books, chapters of books and poems about Whitman published from 1975 to the present.

Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain
"The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"

Regionalism--The WEST

 

Bret Harte

Ambrose Bierce selected works

Kate Chopin

Realism to Naturalism

 

Jack London

Stephen Crane

O'Henry Collection

 

Zane Grey

Dime Novels: American Treasures of the Library of Congress

Edith Wharton: Selections

Henry James: selected work

: Hypertext: "How the Other Half Lives" Social Reform in 19 Century America

 

Supplementary Photographs

20th Century

Ring Lardner



Sherwood Anderson

Ernest Hemingway,

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Selected Works

Katherine Anne Porter

Thomas Wolfe

Eudora Welty

John Steinbeck

 

William Faulkner

Supplementary References

Video

 

 

 

 

James Joyce is considered with William Faulkner to be the two greatest, experimental fiction writers in the first part of the twentieth century. An examination of Joyce's work will give readers an insight into Faulkner's influences.

Parody

 

Other American Writers

Willa Cather Homepage

The Sinclair Lewis Homepage

Ring Lardner's "You Know Me, Al"

 

 World Authors

Katherine Mansfield

Franz Kafka

Rudyard Kipling

Guy de Maupassant

H. H. Munro "Saki"

 

Early Horror in H. P. Lovecraft

 

Connecting Text: The Sun Also Rises

The Lost Generation

 

Connecting Text: The Sound and the Fury

Extra: Mr. Ryan's Favorite Author, William Faulkner

Woody Gutherie

 

Modern Poetry

Gumshoes: Hard Boiled Detectives and Crime Novels

Raymond Chandler Links

Video

Dashiel Hammett

Pulp Fiction

Post Modern World War II-Present

 Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter-House Five

The Complete Kurt Voneggut

 

FLANNERY O'CONNOR

James Dickey

James Dickey's Poetry

James Dickey from the New Georgia Encyclopedia

 

JOHN UPDIKE

JOYCE CAROL OATES

A Joyce Carol Oates Homepage

DONALD BARTHELME

LARRY McMURTY

Shirley Jackson Site Online

Modern American Theatre

Arthur Miller

The Crucible

Sam Shepard

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