Heath Guide to American Literature Volume I Web Sites

General American Literature:

Colonial Period: to 1700

Native American Oral Literatures: Oral Narrative and Oral Poetry

Cultures in Contact: Voices from the Imperial Frontier:

Cultures in Contact: Voices from the Anglo-American "New World"

Tales of Incorporation, Resistance, & Reconquest in New Spain


Eighteenth Century

Tradition and Change in Anglo-America

Enlightenment Voices, Revolutionary Visions

Contested Boundaries, National Visions: Writings on "Race," Identity, and "Nation"

Missionary Voices of the Southwest


Early Nineteenth Century: 1800-1865

Myths, Tales, and Legends

Explorations of an American Self

Issues and Visions in Pre-Civil War America

The Flowering of Narrative

The Emergence of American Poetic Voices