Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Brief Selected Bibliography

Note: In addition to this very brief list of general works, please consult the bibliographies for individual movements and authors.
Ammons, Elizabeth, and Annette White-Parks, eds. Tricksterism in Turn-of-the-Century American Literature. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1994.

Ammons, Elizabeth. Conflicting Stories: American Women Writers at the Turn into the Twentieth Century. New York: Oxford Press, 1991

Andrews, William L, ed. African American Autobiography: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1993.

Andrews, William L. To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986.

Barbour, James, and Tom Quirk, eds. Writing the American Classics. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.

Barbour, James, and Tom Quirk. Biographies of Books: The Compositional Histories of Notable American Writings. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1995.

Bardes, Barbara, and Suzanne Gosset. Declarations of Independence: Women and Political Power in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1990.

Bauer, Dale M. Feminist Dialogics: A Theory of Failed Community. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988.

Baym, Nina. American Women Writers and the Work of History, 1790-1860. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995.

Baym, Nina. Feminism and American Literary History: Essays. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1992.

Baym, Nina. Novels, Readers, and Reviewers: Responses to Fiction in Antebellum America. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1984.

Baym, Nina. Woman's Fiction: A Guide to Novels By and About Women in America, 1820-1870. 2nd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.

Bell, Michael Davitt. The Problem of American Realism: Studies in the Cultural History of a Literary Idea. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Bender, Bert. The Descent of Love: Darwin and the Theory of Sexual Selection in American Fiction, 1871-1926. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996.

Bercovitch, Sacvan, and Myra Jehlen, eds. Ideology and Classic American Literature. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Bercovitch, Sacvan, ed. Reconstructing American Literary History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986.

Berthoff, Warner. The Ferment of Realism: American Literature 1884-1919. New York: Free Press, 1965.

Blair, Walter, and Hamlin Hill. America's Humor. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.

Blair, Walter. Essays on American Humor: Blair Through the Ages. Ed. Hamlin Hill. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993.

Brodhead, Richard. Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in 19th Century America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.

Budick, Emily Miller. Engendering Romance: Woman Writers and the Hawthorne Tradition, 1850-1990. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994.

Buell, Lawrence. Literary Transcendentalism: Style and Vision in the American Renaissance. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1986.

Buell, Lawrence. The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing and the Formations of American Culture. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1995.

Carafiol, Peter. The American Ideal: Literary History as a Worldly Activity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Chase, Richard. The American Novel and Its Tradition. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1957.

Covici, Pascal, Jr. Humor and Revelation in American Literature: The Puritan Connection. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1997.

Dauber, Kenneth. The Idea of Authorship in America: Democratic Poets from Franklin to Melville. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990.

Davidson, Cathy N. Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. Davis, Charles T., and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Slave's Narrative. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Davis, Charles T., and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Slave's Narrative. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Dekker, George. The American Historical Romance. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Dickie, Margaret, and Thomas Travisano, eds. Gendered Modernisms: American Women Poets and Their Readers. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996.

Douglas, Ann. The Feminization of American Culture. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977.

Elliot, Emory. Revolutionary Writers: Literature and Authority in the New Republic 1725-1810. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

Elliot, Emory., and Cathy N. Davidson, eds. The Columbia History of the American Novel. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.

Elliot, Emory., and others, eds. The Columbia Literary History of the United States. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.

Erkkila, Betsy. The Wicked Sisters: Women Poets, Literary History, and Discord. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Feidelson, Charles. Symbolism and American Literature. [1935] Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1959.

Fetterley, Judith. The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978.

Fiedler, Leslie A. Love and Death in the American Novel. New York: Criterion, 1960.

Fisher, Philip. Hard Facts: Setting and Form in the American Novel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Foster, Frances Smith. The Development of Ante-bellum Slave Narratives. 2nd. ed. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994.

Foster, Frances Smith. Written by Herself: Literary Production by African American Women, 1746-1892. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.

Fryer, Judith. The Faces of Eve: Women in the Nineteenth-Century American Novel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Gilmore, Michael T. American Romanticism and the Marketplace. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.

Gunning, Sandra. Race, Rape, and Lynching: The Red Record of American Literature, 1890-1912. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Habegger, Alfred. Gender, Fantasy, and Realism in American Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 1982.

Harris, Susan K. Nineteenth-Century American Women's Novels: Interpretive Strategies. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990.

Hoffman, Daniel. Form and Fable in American Fiction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1961.

Johanningsmeier, Charles. Fiction and the American Literary Marketplace: The Role of Newspaper Syndicates, 1860-1900. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Leverenz, David. Manhood and the American Renaissance. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1989.

Lewis, R. W. B. The American Adam: Innocence, Tragedy, and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century. Chicago: University Chicago Press, 1955.

Loving, Jerome. Lost in the Customhouse: Authorship in the American Renaissance. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1993.

Martin, Jay. Harvests of Change: American Literature:, 1865-1914. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1967.

Marx, Leo. The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1964.

Mason, Jeffrey D. Melodrama and the Myth of America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.

Matthiessen, F.O. American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman. [1941] New York: Oxford University Press, 1964.

McDowell, Deborah E., and Arnold Rampersad, eds. Slavery and the Literary Imagination. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.

Michaels, Walter Benn, and Donald Pease, eds. The American Renaissance Reconsidered. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.

Minter, David. A Cultural History of the American Novel: Henry James to William Faulkner. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Mott, Frank Luther. Golden Multitudes: The Story of Best Sellers in the United States. New York: Macmillan, 1947.

Murphy, Brenda. American Realism and American Drama, 1880-1940. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Myerson, Joel, ed. The Transcendentalists: A Review of Research and Criticism. New York: Modern Language Association, 1984.

Nilson, Don L.F. Humor in American Literature: A Selected Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1992. Rees, Robert, and Earl N. Harbert, eds. Fifteen American Authors Before 1900: Bibliographical Essays on Research and Criticism. [1971] Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984. Rock, Roger. The Native American in American Literature: A Selectively Annotated Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985.

Parini, Jay, ed. The Columbia History of American Poetry. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.

Pattee, Fred Lewis. The Development of the American Short Story. [1966] New York: Harper, 1923.

Pease, Donald E. Visionary Compacts: American Renaissance Writings in Cultural Context. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987.

Pizer, Donald. Realism and Naturalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Rev. ed. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1984.

Reynolds, David S. Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988.

Rose, Anne C. Transcendentalism as a Social Movement, 1830-1850. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1981.

Ruoff, A. LaVonne Brown, and Jerry W. Ward, Jr., eds. Redefining American Literary History. New York: Modern Language Association, 1990.

Sekora, John, and Darwin T. Turner, eds. The Art of Slave Narrative: Original Essays in Criticism and Theory. Macomb: Western Illinois University Press, 1982.

Slocum, Robert B. New England in Fiction, 1787-1990: An Annotated Bibliography. West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1994.

Slotkin, Richard. Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1973.

Smith, Stephanie A. Conceived by Liberty: Maternal Figures and Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1994.

Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll. Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian American. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. Stepto, Robert. From Behind The Veil: A Study of Afro-American Narrative. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1979.

Sundquist, Eric. To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1993.

Tate, Claudia. Domestic Allegories of Political Desire: The Black Heroine's Text at the turn of the Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Thomas, Brook. American Literary Realism and the Failed Promise of Contact. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

Tompkins, Jane P. Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Trachtenberg, Alan. The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age. New York: Hill and Wang, 1982.

Walker, Cheryl. The Nightingale's Burden: Women Poets and American Culture Before 1900. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982.

Warren, Joyce W., ed. The (Other) American Tradition: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1993.

Warren, Kenneth W. Black and White Strangers: Race and American Literary Realism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Westling, Louise. The Green Breast of the New World: Landscape, Gender and American Fiction. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996.

Wilson, Edmund. Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War. [1962] Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1984.

Ziff, Larzer Writing in the New Nation: Prose, Print, and Politics in the Early United States. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991.

Ziff, Larzer. Literary Democracy: The Declaration of Cultural Independence in America. New York: Viking Press, 1981.