Early American Literature: A Bibliography of Secondary Material


BIBLIOGRAPHY
 

American Literary Scholarship: An Annual. Durham: Duke UP, 1963-.

Ammerman, David L., and Philip D. Morgan. Books About Early America: 2001 Titles.

Williamsburg: Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1989.

Appleby, Joyce. “A Different Kind of Independence: The Postwar Restructuring of the Historical Study of Early America.” William and Mary Quarterly 50.2 (1993): 245-67.

Brigham, Clarence. History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690–1820. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1962.

Davis, Richard Beale. A Colonial Southern Bookshelf: Reading in the Eighteenth Century. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1979.

Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography. 

Evans, Charles. American Bibliography . . . 1639 . . . 1820. New York: P. Smith, 1941--.

The Future of Early American History. Spec. issue of  William and Mary Quarterly 50.2 (1993): 299-466. 

Greenberg, Douglas. “The Middle Colonies in Recent American Historiography.” William and Mary Quarterly 36.3 (1979): 396-427.

Gura, Philip F. “The Study of Colonial American Literature, 1966-1987: A Vade Mecum.” William and Mary Quarterly 45.2 (1988): 305-41. 

Hall, David D. “On Common Ground: The Coherence of American Puritan Studies.” William and Mary Quarterly 44.2 (1987): 193-229.

Handbook of Latin American Studies

Hayes, Kevin J. A Colonial Woman’s Bookshelf. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1996. 

Heimert, Alan, and Andrew Delbanco, eds. The Puritans in America: A Narrative Anthology. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1985. 

Journal of American History.

Leary, Lewis, comp. Articles on American Literature: 1900-1950. Articles on American Literature: 1950-1967. Articles on American Literature: 1968-1975. Durham: Duke UP. 

Levernier, James, and Douglas R. Wilmes, eds. American Writers Before 1800. Westport: Greenwood P, 1983.

Miller, Perry, and Thomas H. Johnson, eds. The Puritans: A Sourcebook of Their Writings. New York: American Book Co., 1938.

Montgomery, Michael S. American Puritan Studies: An Annotated Bibliography of Dissertations, 1882-1981. Westport: Greenwood P, 1984. 

Parker, Patricia L. Early American Fiction: A Reference Guide. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1984. 

PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association.

Rubin, Louis D. A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Southern Literature. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1969. Updated as Southern Literature, 1968-1975: A Checklist of Scholarship. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1978. 

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

Ruppert, James. Guide To American Poetry Explication. Colonial and Nineteenth- Century. Vol. 1. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1989.

Rutman, Anita. “Still Planting the Seeds of Hope: The Recent Literature of the Early Chesapeake Region.”  Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 95.1 (1987): 3-24. 

Scheick, William J., and JoElla Doggett. Seventeenth Century American Poetry: A Reference Guide. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1977.

Spiller, Robert, et al., eds. Literary History of the United States. New York: Macmillan, 1948. Vol. 3 and the 1959 “Bibliography Supplement.” 

Woodress, James. Dissertations in American Literature, 1891-1966. Durham: Duke UP, 1968.

Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies.


The bibliographies were originally compiled by Prof. Edward J. Gallagher, Lehigh University, and are currently updated and sponsored by Minnesota State University Moorhead.
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