Literature of the Era:

Detail from CDV, collection of Kathryn Coombs

Key Off-Site Links: Dime Novels & "Penny Dreadfuls" - online texts database at Stanford University Dime Novels YahooGroup "Making of America" sites at Cornell University and U Michigan -- digital copies of books & periodicals  Sullivan Press: reprints of Beadle's dime guides and some dime novels "Vintage Volumes" at www.RaggedSoldier.com (photocopies of period books) Abebooks.com -- search engine for used / vintage books.

Articles / Resources On Other Sites:

• Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture (UVa Library website). Text of Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Civil War literature from Harpers Weekly (15 sample stories)
• Publicly Accessible Texts:  Early American Fiction (UVa)
• The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861-1865, by by Alice Fahs (excerpt)
• Wright American Fiction Database at Indiana University -- collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875

Individual Writers of the Era:

• Individual authors links on The Victorian Web
• Victorian Women Writers Project - Indiana University (British women writers' works, mostly late Victorian but some stuff from our era)
• Emory University Women Writers Resource (33 works from 19th c)
• Women Romantic-era writers (University of Nottingham)
• The Dickens Project at the University of California at Santa Cruz
• Victorian Research Web -- British site but useful for overall cultural context
• Sir Walter Scott -- biography page and link to e-texts of his works
• Sir Walter Scott & the South, by Hamilton James Eckenrode (North American Review, Oct. 1917). Explores Scott's influence on romanticized Southern ideals of chivalry, etc.
• William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) bio and link to e-text of The Yemassee. A Romance of Carolina on the Documenting the American South website. See also the William Gilmore Simms Society website and books by Simms digitized on Project Gutenberg.
• Edgar Allen Poe: Key sites include: Poe Museum, Richmond, the Edgar Allen Poe Society of Baltimore and The Work of Edgar Allen Poe (link to online texts)
• Lydia Howard Sigourney (from UVa Early American Fiction site)-- see also page from Heath Anthology of American Literature.
• Mrs E.D.E.N. Southworth (from UVa website) Also, resource page on Marshall.edu site

Texts of CW Era Novels online:

• E-text of The Hidden Hand (1859) by Mrs E.D.E.N. Southworth
• The Wide Wide World (1850), by Susan Warner [aka Elizabeth Wetherell]

Texts of Short Stories Online

• Health and Happiness, by Virginia De Forrest, Godeys, Nov. 1855 (Hope Greenberg's Godey's site)

Romanticism and Medievalism:

• Legends: As Victorians romanticized the medieval and renaissance eras, this site is useful background on the Arthurian legend and other Anglo-Celtic folklore
• John Esten Cooke's poem, "The Dream of the Cavaliers", published in Harpers, December 1860

Post War Literature About the War:

• Virginian Post-War Literature about the War, the "Lost Cause" mythos,etc

Online Novel Texts, All Periods:

• The Modern English Collection: Search all publicly accessible online texts at UVa
• Project Gutenberg - main page.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Mid 19th c. Literature: