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The Paul Laurence Dunbar Digital Text Collection at Wright State University
Extensive archive of Dunbar's work
Project Gutenberg
More than 13,000 e-books, most of them in the public domain
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library
HUGE online archive of SGML and XML-encoded electronic texts and images
University of Virginia American Studies -- Electronic Texts for the Study of American Culture
Fiction and nonfiction texts about life in America
UNC Libraries, Documenting the American South -- Library of Southern Literature
Archive of Southern literary texts published before 1924
U of M Humanities Text Initiative -- American Verse Project
Substantial archive American poetry to 1920
The Oxford Text Archive
Electronic texts from around the world, in 25 languages (including Esperanto!)
Bartleby.com Great Books Online
Massive archive of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and reference e-texts
Digitial Libraries: Electronic Journal and Text Archives
Project of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
Literature, scholarly articles, and bibliographies
The Academy of American Poets
Large archive of poetry, including sound files of poems being read (in some cases, by the author)
John Labovitz's E-Zine List
Electronic 'zines from around the world
The ETEXT Archives
From the site: "Home to electronic texts of all kinds, from the sacred to the profane, from the political to the personal. Our mission is to provide electronic versions of texts without judging their content."
Week Two
A.B. Longstreet, Preface, Note by the Publishers and "The Horse Swap" from Georgia Scenes (1835)
T.B. Thorpe, Preface and "The Big Bear of Arkansas," from The Hive of the Bee Hunter (1854)
Week Three
Lamont Antieau,“Lousy Conversations and All” (electronic reserve)
Fennell and Bennett,“Sociolinguistic Concepts and Literary Analysis,” JSTOR, linked here. If you are not on campus, you will have to access JSTOR via the WMU library website and then search by author or title for the article.
Stephen Crane, “The Blue Hotel” (1898), online at Documenting the American South and linked here.
Week Four
Lisa Green, “African American English” (electronic reserve)
Rosina Lippi-Green, “The Real Trouble with Black English” (electronic reserve)
Week Five
Michele Birnbaum, “Dark Dialects” (electronic reserve)
Lee Pederson, “Language in the Uncle Remus Tales” (JSTOR). Note: If you are not on campus, you will have to access JSTOR via the WMU library website and then search by author or title for the article.
Paul Laurence Dunbar poems, online at Wright State University’s Paul Laurence Dunbar Digital Text Archives, and linked individually below:
Thomas Nelson Page, from In Old Virginia (1887) “Marse Chan: A Tale of Old Virginia," online at Documenting the American South, and linked here
Joel Chandler Harris, from Uncle Remus, His Songs and Sayings (1880), online at Project Gutenberg, and linked here:
Week Six
Charles W. Chesnutt, “Dave’s Neckliss,” at UVA E-Text Archive and linked here.
Chesnutt, “Po’ Sandy,” at UNC Documenting the American South and linked here.
Chesnutt, “Sis’ Becky’s Pickaninny,” at UNC Documenting the American South and linked here.