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American Literature: Collected Research Guides: Gumberg Library

Welcome

Welcome to this collective research guide on the subject of American Literature. Click an image to visit a particularly guide. If you are on a phone, turn your phone sideways for better viewing. If you find this guide helpful, but are looking for more information, scroll to the bottom for links to other collective guides on literature and other subjects in the Humanities. At the bottom, you will also learn how to get help with your research.

Essential Resources for Literary Studies


Literary Criticism: How to Find it


African American Experience: Collected Research Guides


African American Writers


American Civil War Cultures


American Modernist Writers


American Women Writers


Black Modernist Poets


Death of a Salesman


Emily Dickinson 


T.S Eliot


F. Scott Fitzgerald


Gothic Fiction


Harlem Renaissance


Frances Ellen Watkins Harper


Ernest Hemingway


Joy Harjo


The Lost Generation 

Thomas Merton


Toni Morrison


Mystery and Detective Fiction


Pittsburgh Poets


Pittsburgh Writers


Sylvia Plath


Researching Mina Loy & Friends


Edgar Allan Poe


Ezra Pound


Science Fiction


Slave Narratives


Sustainability: Literature & the Environment


To Kill A Mockingbird


Natasha Tretheway


Twentieth Century American Playwrights


Walt Whitman 


John Edgar Wideman


August Wilson


Women & the Avant Garde

Credits & Help


Need Help?

If at any time you need help with using Gumberg Library resources, please contact Ted Bergfelt, Humanities Librarian, via email or by phone at 412-426-5430, 8:30 am-4:30 pm ET, Monday-Friday. If he is not available, Ask Gumberg


This guide was created by Alivia Austin, English Department Intern, and Ted Bergfelt, Humanities Librarian, September 2023