About Early American Fiction: Provides both images and text for a well-defined and comprehensive collection of early American fiction. Presently includes more than 700 titles by 80 authors, including first printings of works by James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Montgomery Bird, Washington Irving, Catharine Sedgwick, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Published jointly with the University of Virginia Library. The project is currently being extended to include fiction published between 1851 and 1875, including the full text of more than 250 additional titles and over 60 new authors, including Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Herman Melville and Thomas Bailey Aldrich, as well as a host of minor writers of the period. Use also as part of Literature Online.
Years of Coverage: 1789 - 1875
Online Access: World Wide Web
Access Restrictions: ECU campus. Students, faculty and staff with an ECU PirateMail account may access from off-campus.
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The URL for this page is: http://media.lib.ecu.edu/erdbs/erdbs_description.cfm?id=224
