Early American Fiction: 1789-1875 (Chadwyck-Healey) - Coverage
Dates: 1789-1875 - Update Frequency: Not Available - Audience:
Researcher Early American Fiction 1789-1875 contains the full
text of more than 500 first editions of novels and short stories
by nearly 100 American authors. Among the authors included in
the database are James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman
Melville, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Harriet Jacobs, and Mark
Twain, as well as authors who were popular at the time but whose
works are long out of print.Contents are based on Wright's
American Fiction 1774-1850 and the Bibliography of American
Literature and offer both facsimile page images and keyword-
searchable full text. Works from 1851-1875 are still being
added. The Web resource Wright American Fiction 1851-1875 at
Indiana University complements Early American Fiction with
additional texts from the Wright bibliography. Express Link
(bookmark): http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=earl-uga1