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A Web Companion to Modern American Literature

Please remember: In synch with the ethos of the web, the list below is always in the making. Please let us know if you've made new discoveries (or spotted broken links) as you make your excursions into cyberia, and please check out related web pages on this site as well.

Note as well that, while many web sites may be informative and useful, they are typically no substitute for the more sustained scholarly discussion of a book.

This site is under construction, so please check back often. As well, please consult CALPAL (Contemporary American Literature Pal) and please check out JAZZPAL and FILMPAL on this site.

 

General

 
  • America's Story, from America's Library
  • Image Database US and World History
  • Literary Kicks
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  • Scribbling Women
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  • The Legacy Project -- Consequences of 20th-Century Historical Tragedies
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  • Economic History Association,


  • (Mod & Contemp) American Literature, 91¶ÌÊÓƵ Stewart
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  • RelicRadio.com/Old Time Radio
  • Literary Timeline: The American Novel (PBS)
  • : Eugene Debs (NPR Podcast) 
  • (2021)

The Great Depression

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Art

  • Grove Art Online
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  • (Centre Pompidou 2021)
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  • For Italian Futurism, see 3320, European Studies.  Also: 

The Harlem Renaissance, Jazz, The Jazz Age, and Beyond

 
  • , PBS companion site to film by Ken Burns (2001)
  • The New Negro I
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  • (NPR)
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  • Visual Arts in Harlem Renaissance
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  • Archibald Motley I,
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    Allyson Hobbs, (on passing, J Toomer)
  • Claude McKay, (2017),
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  • Oscar Micheaux I,., III, , , ; see also 28 Days, 28 Films below
  • : W Thurman, van Vechten, G Stein, etc.
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  • (NYT 2018)
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  • Toni Millionaire, 
  • Ralph Ellison I,
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  • (1925 Survey Graphic Harlem Number)
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  • Sterling Brown,
  • , ,  , "Sweat", Their Eyes; for H's amazing (and little-known) field work footage, see 28 Days,  below; (2020); 'You Don't Know Us Negroes' & Other Essays (2022); (PBS 2023 91¶ÌÊÓƵ)
  • Nella Larsen, ; ;  
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  • I Hear America Singing (PBS)
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  • A Nightclub Map of Harlem
  • (iTunes/Lib. of Congress)
  • (Robert Penn Warren, Maya Angelou, Richard Wright, Marshall Frady)
  • US Postal Service: (2020)
  • (2015)
  • Winold Reiss, Artist of the HR, ,
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Special section on English 3620--The Civil War and Beyond,1865-1914

 

  •   => Ghost River - The Fall and Rise of the Conestoga
  • The Civil War
    - David Blight,
    - Roger L. Ransom,
    - Ta-Nehisi Coates,
    -  (PBS)
    - Eric Foner,  (PBS),  (chap. 11)
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  • Charles Chestnutt,
  • Stephen Crane,   (Paul Auster 2021)
  • Emily Dickinson, , (8/20); ; 
  • Perkins Gilman,  Halle Butler, "," Paris Review, 2011;
  • William Dean Howells, , , ,
  • Henry James, , ,   The Strange Case of Henry James's Testicles (BBC Radio); ;  Colm Toíbín, 
  • Sui Sin Far (Edith Maud Eaton), , ), " ""
  • Mark Twain, , , , (UC Berkeley), , (Roughing It, ch. 6 + letter); (2010) NYT Review)
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  • Walt Whitman,(first edition, 1855), ,  , ,  (2007), .
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Individual Writers

 

For 20th/21st-century American poets, the Modern American Poetry site (above) is generally useful.
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    Of interest: Ursula Parrott, (1929) - (vs. The Great Gatsby?
  • Jesmyn Ward, "" (NYT, 2018);  (2020); (2021)
  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman, ,
  • Ernest Hemingway, [to be developed on day], ; (6-hour PBS documentary, 2021)
    > A. E. Hotchener, (2015), , , , H ; (9/22); Mary V. Dearborn,(2017); ; (1957)
  • Sinclair Lewis,
  • Amy Lowell,
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  • Robert Frost I, "" (NYT 1977); "" (WP, 1977) , ;  <=> "Mending Wall"; "The Bleakest of 
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  • Eudora Welty, reading
  • (1939)

Related Figures and Developments

 
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DVDs (in Stewart Library, eclectic)

 
  • People's Century (PBS) a fine series of documentary films chronicling much of the 20th century
  • Joel and Ethan Coen, (keywords: Clifford Odets, William Faulkner, Writers in Hollywood)

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