Literature Resources

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General resources:

• Humanities International Complete database via Ripley Public Library
• Advances in Literary Study
• Comic Book+
• Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature
• Google Scholar
• International Children's Digital Library
• Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
  
• Open Journal of Social Sciences
• Poetry Foundation
• Project Gutenberg
• 1,000 Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free

Gale Literary Index:

• Search tool
• List of library volumes
  
  

American Literature

American literature eBooks:

• American Literary Realism and the Failed Promise of Contract. Brook Thomas. 1997.
• American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture. Shelley Streeby. 2002.
• Dwelling in the Text: Houses in American Fiction. Marilyn R. Chandler. 1991.
• For Those Who Come after: A Study of Native American Autobiography. Arnold Krupat. 1985.
• The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life. Nancy Armstrong  and Leonard Tennenhouse. 1992.
• Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems: History and Influence in Mexican-American Social Poetry. José E. Limón. 1992.
• Mother Without Child: Contemporary Fiction and the Crisis of Motherhood. Elaine Tuttle Hansen. 1997.
• The Voice in the Margin: Native American Literature and the Canon. Arnold Krupat. 1989.
• Writing Tricksters: Mythic Gambols in American Ethnic Literature. Jeanne Rosier Smith. 1997.

American authors:

• Burroughs, William S.
• Wising up the Marks: The Amodern William Burroughs. Timothy S. Murphy. 1998.
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel
• Dearest Beloved: The Hawthornes and the Making of the Middle-Class Family. T. Walter Herbert. 1993.
• Pound, Ezra
• ABC of Influence: Ezra Pound and the Remaking of American Poetic Tradition. Christopher Beach. 1992.
• Thoreau, Henry David
• Henry David Thoreau and the Moral Agency of Knowing. Alfred I. Tauber. 2001.
• Twain, Mark
• Acting Naturally: Mark Twain in the Culture of Performance. Randall Knoper. 1995.
• Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of  Mark Twain's Final Years. Karen Lystra. 2004.
• Getting to be Mark Twain. Jeffrey Steinbrink. 1991.
• Traveling in Mark Twain. Richard Bridgman. 1987.
• Wharton, Edith
• The Sexual Education of Edith Wharton. Gloria C. Erlich. 1992.
• Whitman, Walt
• The Erotic Whitman. Vivian R. Pollak. 2000.

 

British Literature

British literature eBooks:

• Another Kind of Love: Male Homosexual Desire in English Discourse, 1850-1920. Christopher Craft. 1994.
  
• Caught in the Act: Theatricality in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel. Joseph Litvak. 1992.
• An Empire Nowhere: England, America, and Literature from Utopia to The Tempest. Jeffrey Knapp. 1992.
• The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life. Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse. 1992.
• Knights at Court: Courtliness, Chivalry, & Courtesy from Ottonian Germany to the Italian Renaissance. Aldo Scaglione. 1992.
• Nerves and Narratives: A Cultural History of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century British Prose. Peter Melville Logan. 1997.
• Victorian Literature and the Victorian Visual Imagination. Carol T. Christ  and John O. Jordan. 1995.

British literature journals:

• Early Modern Literary Studies

British authors:

• Austen, Jane
• Acts of Implication: Suggestion and Covert Meaning in the Works of Dryden, Swift, Pope, and Austen. Irvin Ehrenpreis. 1981.
• Chaucer, Geoffrey
• Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender. Elaine Tuttle Hansen. 1992.
• Chaucerian Play: Comedy and Control in the Canterbury Tales. Laura Kendrick. 1988.
• Chaucer's Dante: Allegory and Epic Theater in The Canterbury Tales. Richard Neuse. 1991.
• The Disenchanted Self: Representing the Subject in the Canterbury Tales. H. Marshall Leicester, Jr. 1990.
• The Naked Text: Chaucer's Legend Of Good Women. Sheila Delany. 1994.
• Dickens, Charles
• Vanishing Points: Dickens, Narrative, and the Subject of Omniscience. Audrey Jaffe. 1991.
• Dryden, John
• Acts of Implication: Suggestion and Covert Meaning in the Works of Dryden, Swift, Pope, and Austen. Irvin Ehrenpreis. 1981.
• Dryden and the Tradition of Panegyric. James D. Garrison. 1975.
• Dryden in Revolutionary England. David Bywaters. 1991.
• Joyce, James
• The Irish Ulysses. Maria Tymoczko. 1997.
• Joyce in America: Cultural Politics and the Trials of Ulysses. Jeffrey Segall. 1993.
• Pope, Alexander
• Acts of Implication: Suggestion and Covert Meaning in the Works of Dryden, Swift, Pope, and Austen. Irvin Ehrenpreis. 1981.
• Shakespeare, William
• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
• The Horace Howard Furness Shakespeare Library
• Inscribing the Time: Shakespeare and the End of Elizabethan England. Eric S. Mallin. 1995.
• Spenser, Edmund
• Transforming Desire: Erotic Knowledge in Books III and IV of the Faerie Queene. Lauren Silberman. 1995.
• Swift, Jonathan
• Acts of Implication: Suggestion and Covert Meaning in the Works of Dryden, Swift, Pope, and Austen. Irvin Ehrenpreis. 1981.
• Woolf, Virginia
• The Flight of the Mind: Virginia Woolf's Art and Manic-Depressive Illness. Thomas C. Caramagno. 1992.
• Wordsworth, William
• Wordsworth and the Cultivation of Women. Judith W. Page. 1994.
• Yeats, William Butler
• Behind the Scenes: Yeats, Horniman, and the Struggle for the Abbey Theatre

World Literature

World literature eBooks:

• Himalayan Voices: An Introduction to Modern Nepali Literature. Michael James Hurt. 1991.
• Knights at Court: Courtliness, Chivalry, & Courtesy from Ottonian Germany to the Italian Renaissance. Aldo Scaglione. 1992.
  

World literature authors:

• Apollonius Rhodius
• The Best of the Argonauts: The Redefinition of the Epic Hero in Book 1 of Apollonius's Argonautica. James J. Clauss. 1993.
• Aristotle
• Aristotle on the Goals and Exactness of Ethics. Georgios Anagnostopoulos. 1994.
• Cervantes, Miguel de
• Cervantes and the Burlesque Sonnet. Adrienne Laskier Martín. 1991.
• The Novel According to Cervantes. Stephen Gilman. 1989.
• Dante Alighieri
• Time and the Crystal: Studies in Dante's Rime Petrose. Robert M. Durling and Ronald L. Martinez. 1990.
• Homer
• The Power of Thetis: Allusion and Interpretation in the Iliad. Laura M. Slatkin. 1992.
• Horace
• Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage. Phebe Lowell Bowditch. 2001.
• Ignatius of Loyola
• Loyola's Acts: The Rhetoric of the Self. Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle. 1997.
• Livy
• Spectacle and Society in Livy’s History. Andrew Feldherr. 1998.
• Montaigne, Michel de
• Montaigne's Unruly Brood: Textual Engendering and the Challenge to Paternal Authority. Richard L. Regosin. 1996.
• Plato
• Form and Good in Plato's Eleatic Dialogues: The Parmenides, Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman. Kenneth Dorter. 1994.
• Rabelais, François
• Rabelais's Carnival: Text, Context, Metatext. Samuel Kinser. 1990.
• Sappho
• Reading Sappho: Contemporary Approaches. Ellen Greene. 1996.
• Theocritus
• Theocritus's Urban Mimes: Mobility, Gender, and Patronage. Joan B. Burton. 1995.
• Thucydides
• Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity: The Limits of Political Realism. Gregory Crane. 1998.

French literature:

• The Honeysuckle and the Hazel Tree: Medieval Stories of Men and Women. Patricia Terry. 1995.
• The Master and Minerva: Disputing Women in French Medieval Culture. Helen Solterer. 1995.

Chinese literature:

• Inscribed Landscapes: Travel Writing from Imperial China. Richard E. Strassberg. 1994.
• The Limits of Realism: Chinese Fiction in the Revolutionary Period. Marston Anderson. 1990.
• Voices of the Song Lyric in China. Pauline Yu. 1994.

Middle Eastern literature:

• Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition. Dwight F. Reynolds. 2001.

Japanese literature:

• The Rhetoric of Confession: Shishosetsu in Early Twentieth-Century Japansese Fiction. Edward Fowler. 1988.
• Songs to Make the Dust Dance: The Ryojin hisho of Twelfth-Century Japan. Yung-Hee Kim. 1994.

Poetry

Poetry eBooks:

• The Chances of Rhyme: Device and Modernity. Donald Wesling. 1980.
• Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World: The Poetics of Community. Margaret Beissinger,
  Jane Tylus, and  Susanne Wofford. 1999.
• Green Thoughts, Green Shades: Essays by Contemporary Poets on the Early Modern Lyric. Jonathan F. S. Post. 2002.
• Memory and Re-Creation in Troubadour Lyric. Amelia E. Van Vleck. 1991.
• Orphans of Petrarch: Poetry and Theory in the Spanish Renaissance. Ignacio Navarrete. 1994.
• Traditional Oral Epic: The Odyssey, Beowulf, and the Serbo-Croatian Return Song. John Miles Foley. 1991.
• Trials of Authorship: Anterior Forms and Poetic Reconstruction  from Wyatt to Shakespeare. Jonathan Crewe. 1990.

Drama

Drama eBooks:

• Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater. W. B. Worthen. 1991.
  
  

Film

Film resources:

• Audiovisual Lexicon for Media Analysis (University of Michigan)
• Film Literature Index
• UNZ.org - Content Archive of Printed Periodicals and Books
• Yale Film Analysis Guide

Film eBooks:

• Film Quarterly: Forty Years—A Selection. Brian Henderson and Ann Martin with Lee Amazonas. 1999.
• Light Moving in Time: Studies in the Visual Aesthetics of Avant-Garde Film. William C. Wees. 1992.
• Memory and Popular Film. Paul Grainge. 2003.
• Misogyny, Misandry, and Misanthropy. R. Howard Bloch and Frances Ferguson. 1989.
• Playing with Power in Movies, Television, and Video Games: From Muppet Babies to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Marsha Kinder. 2001.

Film journals:

• The Public Domain Review

Film archives:

• Domitor Journals Project - Databases and archives of early cinema studies
• European Film Gateway
• Margaret Herrick Library Digital Collections - Film history
• Media History Digital Library

Silent Film:

• Cecil B. DeMille and American Culture: The Silent Era. Sumiko Higashi. 1994.
• Kinema (Swiss, 1911-1919) - Swiss silent film magazine
• Online Silent Film Periodicals (Bioscope)
  
• Women Film Pioneers Project (Columbia University)

American Film:

• Backstory 2: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1940s and 1950s. Pat McGilligan. 1997.
• Backstory 3: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1960s. Pat McGilligan. 1997.
• Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood. Jennifer E. Langdon. 2008.
• Echo and Narcissus: Women's Voices in Classical Hollywood Cinema. Amy Lawrence. 1991.
• Exporting Entertainment: American in the World Film Market 1907–1934. Kristin Thompson. 1985.
• Hollywood Quarterly: Film Culture in Postwar America, 1945–1957. Eric Smoodin and Ann Martin. 2002.
• On the Edge of America: California Modernist Art, 1900-1950. Paul J .Karlstrom. 1996.
• Six Screenplays by Robert Riskin. Pat McGilligan. 1997.

French Film:

• Ciné-ressources: Répertoire des périodiques
• Gallica (Bibliotheque nationale de France)

German Film:

• Empire of Ecstasy: Nudity and Movement in German Body Culture, 1910–1935. Karl Toepfer. 1997.
• The German Films of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub. Barton Byg. 1985.
• Hollywood in Berlin: American Cinema and Weimar Germany. Thomas J. Saunders. 1994.
• The New German Cinema: Music, History, and the Matter of Style. Caryl Flinn. 2004.

Italian film:

• Roberto Rossellini. Peter Brunette. 1996.

Russian / Soviet Film:

• Springtime for Soviet Cinema: Re/Viewing the 1960s. Alexander Prokhorov. 2001.

Theory

Theory eBooks:

• Erotic Faculties. Joanna Frueh. 1996.
• Ethnocriticism: Ethnography History Literature. Arnold Krupat. 1992.
• The Feminine Sublime: Gender and Excess in Women's Fiction. Barbara Claire Freeman. 1997.
• Fifteen Jugglers, Five Believers: Literary Politics and the Poetics of American Social Movements. T.V. Reed. 1992.
• Flight from Eden: The Origins of Modern Literary Criticism and Theory. Steven Cassedy. 1990.
• Incidents. Roland Barthes. 1992.
• Misogyny, Misandry, and Misanthropy. R. Howard Bloch and Frances Ferguson. 1989.
• On the Margins of Modernism: Decentering Literary Dynamics. Chana Kronfeld. 1996.
• The Persistence of Memory: Organism, Myth, Text. Philip Kuberski. 1992.
• Reading Voices: Literature and the Phonotext. Garrett Stewart. 1990.
• Revenge of the Aesthetic: The Place of Literature in Theory Today. Michael P. Clark. 2000.
• Touching Liberty: Abolition, Feminism, and the Politics of the Body. Karen Sánchez-Eppler. 1993.