MERLOT Materials

Abstract American Literature 2 is a post-Civil-War American literature anthology. Heavily adapted from the Lumen course... see more

African-American Literature

Abstract American Literature I combines a textbook covering literary analysis and literary critical theory, basic... see more

Description Reading African American Literature is a multi-genre introduction to African American Literature and basic... see more

This web page provides a clear and concise explanation of one of the most important periods in American Literature.

This site, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, provides a brief but comprehensive historical review of major... see more

This site provides an American literature timeline, useful pages defining terms like "Typology" and "Romance and Novel,"... see more

This is an US Literature 1 course, covering up to the Civil War. It includes a wide range of videos on literature,... see more

In trying to understand the origins of African American literature, I have taken what many may find to be an unusual... see more

The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature covers a period dating back to the eighteenth century.... see more

This course studies the national literature of the United States since the early 19th century. It considers a range of... see more

This is a HASS-D CI course. Like other communications-intensive courses in the humanities, arts, and social sciences, it... see more

This book-in-progress has been (and is being) almost entirely created by undergraduate students and recent alums. Have an... see more

American Literature is divided into ten chapters and 440 authors are listed by historic period from the 17th century to... see more

Abstract World Literature covers a range of world fiction and nonfiction readings, including coverage of trickster tales,... see more

This book offers an anthology of texts that includes letters, journals, poetry, newspaper articles, pamphlets, sermons,... see more

African American literature is over. With this provocative claim Kenneth Warren sets out to identify a distinctly African... see more

The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature is a comprehensive collection of poems, short stories,... see more

Authoring America: A Survey of American Literature from Its Beginnings to 2020 is a five-volume, completely-open... see more

What is a "life" when it's written down? How does memory inform the present? Why are autobiographies and memoirs so... see more

As its home page states, this site "provides professional development and classroom materials to enhance the study of... see more

Lesson plans and PowerPoint presentations for a semester long survey course on Native Amerian literature

This subject, cross-listed in Literature and Women's Studies, examines a range of American women authors from the... see more

For some reason, American literature (like French, Irish, and Russian, among others) has been especially productive in... see more