LibGuides: Late American Literature: Resources for Realist Literature (1865-1914)

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Focus texts

"A Noiseless, Patient Spider" by Walt Whitman
"A Spider Sewed at Night" by Emily Dickinson
"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"Desiree's Baby" by Kate Chopin

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Resources

American Realism by Eric J. Sundquist (Editor)
Call Number: PS 374 .R37 A47 1982
ISBN: 0801827957
Publication Date: 1969-09-01
Circumference and circumstance: stages in the mind and art of Emily Dickinson by Sherwood, William R.
Call Number: PS 1541 .Z5 S5
Publication Date: 1968
The ferment of realism: American literature, 1884-1919 by Berthoff, Warner
Call Number: PS 214 .B4 C.2
Publication Date: 1965
Kate Chopin in the Twenty-First Century by Heather Ostman
Call Number: PS 1294 .C63 K384 2008
ISBN: 9781847186478
Publication Date: 2008-08-01
The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman by Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Zona Gale
Call Number: PS 1744 .G57 Z5 1972
ISBN: 9780405044595
Publication Date: 1975-06-01
Realism and naturalism in nineteenth-century American literature by Pizer, Donald
Call Number: PS124.P5
Publication Date: 1966
Walt Whitman's America by David S. Reynolds
Call Number: PS3231 .R48 1996
ISBN: 9780679767091
Publication Date: 1996-03-19
Walt Whitman: the critical heritage by Milton Hindus
Call Number: PS 3238 .H5 1971B
ISBN: 9780389042082
Publication Date: 1971-01-01

American Literary Realism and the Failed Promise of Contract by Brook Thomas
ISBN: 9780520216648
Publication Date: 1999-01-04
Charlotte Perkins Gilman by Cynthia J. Davis
ISBN: 9780804738880
Publication Date: 2010-03-02
Documents of American Realism and Naturalism by Donald Pizer (Editor)
ISBN: 9780809320967
Publication Date: 1998-02-01
The Literature of Reconstruction: Not in Plain Black and White by Brook Thomas
ISBN: 9781421421322
Publication Date: 2017-01-17
Realism and the American Dramatic Tradition by William W. Demastes (Editor)
ISBN: 9780817308377
Publication Date: 1996-08-30
The Theory and Practice of American Literary Naturalism by Donald Pizer
ISBN: 9780809318476
Publication Date: 1993-05-28
Walt Whitman by Harold Bloom
ISBN: 9780791051085
Publication Date: 1999-01-01

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Bibliography of Native North Americans (BNNA) is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life. This resource covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. BNNA contains more than 110,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada. BNNA will appeal to anyone interested in exploring the contributions, struggles, and issues surrounding North America's indigenous peoples.
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JSTOR's archival journal collections include more than two thousand journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Literary Reference Center (LRC) is a highly graphical interface intended for public, academic and high school libraries. The primary goal of LRC is to assist high school and undergraduate English and Humanities students with homework and research assignments of a literary nature.
MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations of literary scholarship. Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series, and 1,000 book publishers.

Dickinson Electronic Archives: "A creative and critical collaboratory for reading Dickinson's material bodies and for featuring new critical and theoretical work about Emily Dickinson's writings, biography, reception, and influence."
Journal Article: "Regionalism in American Literature" by Tremaine McDowell
Journal Article: "What is Literary Realism?" by Mary Francis Slattery
The Kate Chopin International Society: "provides a network for scholars interested in Kate Chopin, and it acts as a bridge between scholars and others—students, teachers, librarians, journalists, playwrights, filmmakers, translators, book club members, bloggers, and other readers in the United States and in countries around the world."
Kate Chopin: A Re-Awakening provides information on Chopin's life and her works. The site includes links to full-texts of her works as well as links to criticism and primary sources.
Library of Southern Literature: "Regionalism and Local Color"
Article: "On the Influence of Naturalism on American Literature" by Xiaofen Zhang introduces naturalism, its characteristics, and its influence on American literature.
The Walt Whitman Archive contains full texts of published works, manuscripts, letters, essays, and photos of Walt Whitman

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