Poe portrait

New portrait of Poe found: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100118/ap_on_en_ot/us_poe_portrait.

Blithedale Romance bibliography

I've updated the bibliography on Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance.

Updates to Queries pages

Updates to the Queries pages at the Edith Wharton Society, the W. D. Howells Society, and the Stephen Crane Society.  There are a lot of interesting questions being raised there, so if you think you might have answers, please send them to me.

Updates to Mary E. Wilkins Freeman bibliography

I've update the bibliography on Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and will be updating her page with new links to Jeff Kaylin's Freeman site.

Studies in American Fiction starting up again

Good news for Americanists: The journal Studies in American Fiction, which had shut down in the fall of 2008, is starting up again under the auspices of Johns Hopkins University Press and Project Muse.

Although the Northeastern University web site says that back issues may be available through IRIS (http://www.lib.neu.edu/libraries_and_collections/iris/), they aren't there yet.  You can find SAF online for free (some issues) at findarticles.com and for a fee at Questia.com ($) and Highbeam Research via Encyclopedia.com or AccessMyLibrary ($).

Updates to bibliographies

I've updated the bibliographies and queries pages at the Howells Society and Wharton Society sites.

Updates to the Stephen Crane bibliography

I've updated the current bibliography at the Stephen Crane Society site. Several new entries for 2008 turned up in the search as well.

More Constance Fenimore Woolson Letters

Although a list isn't yet available, Sharon Dean has found twenty-five additional letters to Samuel Mather, Jr., privately owned, on microfilm at Western Reserve Historical Society. I've updated the Constance Fenimore Woolson letters page accordingly and will post more as information becomes available.

Updated main site

I've updated my main site at http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/index.html and have added a navigation bar. This makes it easier to find the literary crossword puzzles and quizzes, bibliographies, discussion questions, and so on, which were (sorry) unintentionally difficult to find before.

If you haven't tried any of the crossword puzzles and aren't usually a fan of them, don't worry: the clues aren't tricky if you know the author's works.

Stephen Crane Studies: New Articles

As I mentioned in Twitter, the new issues (all of 2008, vol. 17) of Stephen Crane Studies arrived yesterday, with several very interesting articles. I'd especially recommend Stanley Wertheim's "The New York Topography of Maggie and George's Mother" for anyone who studies or teaches either of Crane's so-called "Bowery Tales." Wertheim, a lifelong resident of New York as well as a renowned Crane scholar, argues convincingly that although the setting of these tales has (mis)identified as the Bowery, they largely take place in other areas of New York.

Stephen Crane Studies isn't available online, but I hope that it will be some time.

Civil War

I've updated the 1860 page of the Timeline to reflect the dates of more battles.

A critical perspective from 1883

It is the women of a novel which determine its truthfulness. The very subtlety of the sex makes any delineation a test of the writer’s truthfulness in art; for while a writer who is a law to himself will make this subtlety an excuse for drawing characters which transgress all known laws, an artist will employ the same subtlety to bring into distincter light the obedience to law which underlies subtlety. “The East and the West in Recent Fiction,” Atlantic Monthly, November 1883, pp. 704-705.

Updates: Concord and Margaret Fuller

I've updated the Concord Chronology page with more information (some items are from John Matteson's Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father) and have also updated the Margaret Fuller page.

Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa)

I've found several new essays online by Charles Eastman at Google Books and have added them to the page; also, the bibliography on Eastman has been updated.

Constance Fenimore Woolson Society

The Constance Fenimore Woolson Society site has a new address & updates: link at http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/woolson.htm

Updates to author society pages

I've updated the queries pages at the Howells and Wharton sites; also I've updated the brief definition of Gothic on the Literary Movements site: http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/novel.htm.

Edith Wharton Bibliographies

I've updated and reorganized all the bibliographies at the Edith Wharton Society site, http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/wharton/newbib.htm.

Harvard Digital Collections

I'll be adding a link to the Harvard Digital Collections site on the Sites page:

http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/expeditions/.

Although it focuses more on international than U.S. explorations, there's a section on Mexico and the South. http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/expeditions/palmer.html

New page: Ellen Glasgow

I've added a page about Ellen Glasgow, although it's still a work in progress: http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/glasgow.htm.

Portrait Gallery of American women writers

If you have a chance, visit the new portrait gallery of American women writers at the Legacy site. It includes pictures and copyright information, as well as a bibliography of related articles published in Legacy.