LibGuides: Late American Literature: Getting Started

Getting Started

This guide has been created for students in EN 204, but also for others to find to find topics, scholarly articles, books, websites, and information about Late American Literature.

Getting Started

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Library Resources

The American Tradition in Literature, Volume 1 by George Perkins; Barbara Perkins
Call Number: PS507 .A62 2009B V.1
ISBN: 9780077239046
Publication Date: 2008-10-21
Mississippi Writers by Dorothy Abbott (Editor)
Call Number: PS558 .M7 M55 1985 V.1
ISBN: 9780878052325
Publication Date: 1985-04-01
Southern Writers on Writing by Susan Cushman (Editor); Alan Lightman (Foreword by)
Call Number: PS261 .S6174 2018
ISBN: 9781496815002
Publication Date: 2018-05-16

American Literature from the 1850s to 1945 by Adam Augustyn (Editor)
ISBN: 9781615301324
Publication Date: 2010-08-15
Reading Testimony, Witnessing Trauma: Confronting Race, Gender, and Violence in American Literature by Eden Wales Freedman
ISBN: 9781496827333
Publication Date: 2020-02-28
Urban Underworlds: A Geography of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture by Thomas Heise
ISBN: 9780813547855
Publication Date: 2010-11-22
Southern Gothic Literature by Salem Press Editors; Jay Ellis (Editor)
ISBN: 9781429838238
Publication Date: 2013-03-19

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