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American Literature: Collected Research Guides: Gumberg Library

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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

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Literary Criticism: How to Find it

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African American Experience: Collected Research Guides

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African American Writers

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American Civil War Cultures

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American Modernist Writers

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American Women Writers

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Black Modernist Poets

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Death of a Salesman

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Emily Dickinson 

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T.S Eliot

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Gothic Fiction

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Harlem Renaissance

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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

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Ernest Hemingway

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Joy Harjo

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The Lost Generation 

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Thomas Merton

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Toni Morrison

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Mystery and Detective Fiction

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Pittsburgh Poets

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Pittsburgh Writers

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Sylvia Plath

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Researching Mina Loy & Friends

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Edgar Allan Poe

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Ezra Pound

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Queer Writers and Poets

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Science Fiction

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Slave Narratives

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Sustainability: Literature & the Environment

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To Kill A Mockingbird

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Natasha Tretheway

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Twentieth Century American Playwrights

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Walt Whitman 

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John Edgar Wideman

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William Carlos Williams


August Wilson

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Women & the Avant Garde

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Credits & Help


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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