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SCOPE: The purpose of this pathfinder is to serve as a guideline for student in locating library resources on the topic of New England Authors. It is not intended as a comprehensive listing, but as a selective sampling of the many types of materials available in the library. This list includes works of literature by representative authors from the New England area. Critical works by and about those authors are also included. 

SUBJECT HEADINGS 

Books dealing with New England authors are listed in the Baddour Librarys online catalog under the following subject headings:

American literature New England
Authors, American New England
New England Biography 

There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library.

OVERVIEW SOURCES

REF PS 21.D5 Vol. 1 Dictionary of Literary Biography 

Some representative books from the Circulating Collection that is located upstairs in the library:

CIRCULATING BOOKS 

CONNECTICUT

Harold Bloom

Bloom, Harold. Deconstruction and Criticism. New York: Continuun, 1984.

Bloom, Harold. Omens of Millennium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection. New York: Riverhead Books, 1996.

Bloom, Harold. The Ringers in the Tower; Studies in Romantic Tradition. Chicago: Univ. Of Chicago Press, 1971.

Bloom, Harold. The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press.

Bloom, Harold. The Western Canon: The Books and Schools of the Ages. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1994.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman 

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography.
Madison, Wis: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1991.

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. With Her in Ourland: Sequel to Herland. Westport, Conn: 
Praeger, 1997.

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution. Minneola Dover Publications, 1998.

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Yellow Wallpaper. N.Y.: Feminist Press, 1973.

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings. New York: Bantam Books, 1989.

Golden, Catherine. The Captive Imagination: A Casebook on the Yellow Wallpaper. New York: Talman, 1992.

Kessler, Carol Farley. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia with Selected Writings. New York: Syracuse Univ. Press, 1995. New York:

Eugene ONeill

ONeill, Eugene. Ah Wilderness!: A Comedy of Recollections in Three Plays. N.Y: Samuel French, 1933.

ONeill, Eugene. The Emperor Jones, Anna Christie, the Hairy Ape. New York: The 
Modern Library, 1932.

ONeill, Eugene. Nine Plays. New York: The Modern Library, 1932.

ONeill, Eugene. Complete Plays. New York: Viking Press, 1988.

ONeill, Eugene. Three Plays of Eugene ONeill. New York: Vintage Books, 1973.

Wallace Stevens

Stevens, Wallace. Collected Poetry and Prose. New York: Library of America, 1997.

Mark Twain

Budd, Louis J. & Edwin H. Cady. On Mark Twain. Durham: Duke Univ. Press, 1987.

Gilman, Susan Kay. Dark Twins: Imposture and Identity in Mark Twain's America. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1989.

Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Logan, Iowa: Perfection Form, 1979.

Twain, Mark. Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays. New York: Viking Press, 1992.

Twain, Mark. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. New York: New American Library, 1963.

Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad; Roughing It. New York: Viking Press, 1984.

Twain, Mark. Historical Romances; The Prince and the Pauper, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc. New York: Library of America, 1994.

Twain, Mark. Letters from the Earth. Greenwich, Ct: Fawcett Publications, 1962.

Twain, Mark. Life on the Mississippi. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1962.

MAINE 

Carroll, Gladys Hasty. Sing out the Glory. Boston: Little, Brown, 1957.

Carson, Rachel. Always, Rachel: The Letters of Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman. Boston: Little, Brown, 1957.

Carson, Rachel. The Edge of the Sea. New York: New American Library, 1955.

Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962.

Carson, Rachel. Under the Sea Wind. New York: New American Library, 1964.

Chute, Carolyn. The Beans of Egypt, Maine. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1985.

Jewett, Sarah Orne. The Best Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett. Gloucester, Mass. P. Smith, 1965.

Jewett, Sarah Orne. The Country of the Pointed Firs. New York: Doubleday, 1956.

Jewett, Sarah Orne. Novels and Stories. New York: Penguin Books, 1994.

King, Stephen. Stephen King's Danse Macabre. New York: Berkley Books, 1983.

King, Stephen. The Dark Half. New York: Penguin Books, 1990.

King, Stephen. Dolores Claiborne. New York: USA: Signet, 1993.

King, Stephen. The Eyes of the Dragon; A Story. New York: Viking, 1987.

King, Stephen. Gerald's Game. New York: Signet, 1993.

King, Stephen. Needful Things. New York: Viking, 1991.

King, Stephen. Pet Sematary. New York: Penguin Books, 1984.

King, Stephen. The Talisman. New York: Berkley Books, 1985.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent. Collected Poems. New York: Harper, 1975.

Roberts, Kenneth Lewis. Lydia Bailey. New York: Doubleday, 1947.

Sarton, May. Joanna and Ulysses, a Tale. New York: Norton, 1963.

Sarton, May. Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing, a Novel. New York: Norton, 1974.

Sarton, May. Sarton Selected: An Anthology of the Journals, Novels, and Poems of May Sarton. New York: Norton, 1991.

Sarton, May. Shadow of a Man. New York: Rinehart, 1950.

Sarton, May. The Small Room, a Novel. New York: Norton, 1961.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin. New York: Kennikat Press, 1968.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin, or, Life Among the Lowly; the Ministers Wooing; Old Town Folks. New York: Viking Press, 1982.

Tarkington, Booth. Monsieur Beaucaire. New York: Heritage Press, 1961.

Yourcenar, Marguerite. A Coin in Nine Hands. New York: Farrar, Strauss& Giroux, 1982.

Yourcenar, Marguerite. The Dark Brain of Piranes; and Other Essays. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1984.

MASSACHUSETTS

Adams, Stephen. Revising Mythologies: The Compositions of Thoreaus Major Works. Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia, 1988.

Allen, Gay Wilson. Waldo Emerson: A Biography. New York: Viking Press,
1981.

Bennett, Paula. Emily Dickinson: Woman Poet. Iowa City, Iowa: Univ. of Iowa Press, 1990.

Bercovitch, Sacvan. The Office of the Scarlet Letter. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.

Buell, Lawrence. The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the 
Formation of American Culture. Cambridge,Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press, 1995.

Botkin, Daniel B. No Man's Garden: Thoreau and a New Vision for Civilization and 
Nature. Washington,D.C: Island Press, 2001.

Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre, an Autobiography. New York: Frederick Warne and Co; 1981.

Bronte, Emily. The Poems of Emily Bronte. Savage, MD: Barnes & Noble, 1992.

Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights, with a Critical and Biographical Profile of the Author. New York: Grolier, 1969.

Bunge, Nancy L. Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Study of the Short Fiction. New York: Twayne 1993.

Cady, Edwin H. & Louis J. Budd. On Emerson. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press, 
1988.

Cady, Edwin H. & Louis J. Budd. On Hawthorne. Durham: Duke University Press, 1990.

Cain, William E. A Historical Guide to Henry David Thoreau. New York: Oxford Univ. 
Press, 2000.

Cavell, Stanley. The Senses of Walden. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1981.

Cayton, Mary Louise. Emerson's Emergence: Self and Society in the Transformation of New England, 1800-1845. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1989.

Davison, Peter. The Fading Smile: Poets in Boston, 1955-1960 from Robert 
Frost to Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath. New York: Knopf, 1994.

Emerson , Ralph Waldo. Emerson in His Journals. Cambridge: Belknap Press of 
Harvard University Press, 1982.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. The Best of Ralph Waldo Emerson; Essays, Poems, Addresses. New York: W.J. Black, 1941.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Collected Poems & Translations. New York: Penguin Books, 
1994.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Essays & Lectures. New York: Viking Press, 1983.

Evans, Barbara Lloyd, ed. The Poems of Emily Bronte. Savage, MD: Barnes & Noble 
Books, 1992.

Farr, Judith. The Passion of Emily Dickinson. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Univ. Press, 1992.

Fraser, Rebecca. The Brontes: Charlotte Bronte and Her Family. New York: Crown, 1988.

Gerber, John C. Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Scarlet Letter; A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice- Hall, 1968.Ber

Gezari, Janet. Charlotte Bronte and Defensive Conduct: The Author and the Body at Risk. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1992.

Hahn, Stephen. On Thoreau. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Thomson Learning, 2000.

Hansen, Olaf. Aesthetic Individualism and Practical Intellect: American Allegory in 
Emerson, Thoreau, Adams, and James. Princeton, N.J; 1990.

Harding, Walter Roy. The Days of Henry Thoreau: A Biography. New York: Dover
Publications, 1982.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Complete Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday & Company, 1959.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1887.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of Seven Gables, with a Critical and Biographical Profile of the Author. New York: Grolier, n.d.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1889.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The American Notebooks. Columbus: Ohio Sate University Press, 1972.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Portable Hawthorne. New York: Penguin Books, 1977.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter. New York: Heritage Press, 1946.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Tales and Sketches. New York: Viking Press, 1982.

Hildebidle, John. Thoreau, a Naturalist's Liberty. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Univ. Press, 1983.

Johnson, Linck C. Thoreau's Complex Weave: The Writing of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, with the Text of the First Draft. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1986.

Kaul, A.N., ed. Hawthorne: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice-Hall, 1966.

Leary, Lewis Gaston. John Greenleaf Whittier. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1962.

Lebeaux, Richard. Thoreau's Seasons. Amherst: University of Mass Press, 1984.

Lowell, James Russell. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell. New 
York: Houghton Mifflin, 1917.

Macdonald, Ruth K. Louisa May Alcott. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1983. 

Masson, Flora. The Brontes. Port Washington, New York: Kennikat Press, 1970.

ONeill, Judith. Critics on Charlotte and Emily Bronte. Coral Gables ,Fla: 
University of Miami Press, 1968.

Paul, Sherman. The Shores of America: Thoreaus Inward Exploration. Urbana: 
University of Illinois Press, 1958.

Pfister, Joel. The Production of Personal Life: Class, Gender, and the Psychological 
In Hawthornes Fiction. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1991.

Poirier, Richard. Ralph Waldo Emerson. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1990.

Richardson, Robert D. Emerson: The Mind on Fire: A Biography. Berkeley: Univ. of 
California Press, 1995.

Rountree, Thomas J. Critics on Hawthorne. Coral Gables, Fla: University of Miami Press 1972.

Ruland, Richard. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Walden: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice-Hall, 1968.

Schneider, Richard J. Thoreau's Sense of Place: Essays in American Environmental 
Writing. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press, 2000.

Sewall, Richard Benson, ed. Emily Dickinson: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1963.

Shanley, J. Lyndon. The Making of Walden, with the Text of the First Version. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957.

Smith, Martha Nell. Rowing in Eden: Rereading Emily Dickinson. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1992.

Swann, Charles. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Tradition and Revolution. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1991.

St. Armand, Barton Levi. Emily Dickinson and Her Culture: The Soul's Society. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Thoreau, Henry David. Cape Cod. New York: Bramhall House, 1951.

Thoreau, Henry David. Collected Essays and Poems. New York: Penguin Putnam,
2001.

Thoreau, Henry David. Excursions. Gloucester, Mass: Peter Smith, 1975.

Thoreau, Henry David. The Maine Woods. New York: Bramhall House, 1950.

Thoreau, Henry David. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers; Walden, or, Life In the Woods; The Maine Woods; Cape Cod. New York: Viking Press, 1985.

Thoreau, Henry David. Thoreau's Vision: The Major Essays. Englewood Cliffs, N.J: 
Prentice-Hall, 1973.

Waggoner, Hyatt Howe. Nathaniel Hawthorne. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota 
Press, 1962.

Winnifrith, Tom. Charlotte and Emily Bronte. New York: St. Martins Press, 1989.

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Banks, Russell. Continental Drift. New York: Harper & Row, 1985.

Barker, Shirley. Swear by Apollo. New York: Doubleday, 1937.

Burnshaw, Stanley. Robert Frost Himself. New York: G. Braziller, 1986. 

Caroll, Gladys Hasty. Sing out the Glory. Boston: Little, Brown, 1957.

Cheever, John. The Letters of John Cheever. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988.

Cheever, John. The Stories of John Cheever. New York: Knopf, 1978.

Cox, James Melville. Robert Frost: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood
Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1962.

Cummings, e.e. Complete Poems, 1904-1962. New York: Liveright, 1991.

Doreski, Carol Kiler. Elizabeth Bishop: The Restraints of Language. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1993.

Erdrich, Louise. The Beet Queen: A Novel. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston,
1986.

Erdrich, Louise. Love Medicine: A Novel. New York: Holy, 1984.

Frost, Robert. Collected Poems, Plays & Prose. New York: Library America, 1995.

Gilmore, Robert C. New Hampshire Literature; A Sampler. Hanover, New Hampshire: 
University Press of New England, 1981.

Hall, Donald. Here at Eagle Pond. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1990.

Hall, Donald. String Too Short to be Saved. Boston, MA: D.R. Godine, 1979.

Hebert, Ernest. The Dogs of March. New York: Viking Press, 1979.

Hicks, Granville. There Was a Man in Our Town, a Novel. New York: Viking Press, 1952.

Jewett, Sarah Orne. The Country of the Pointed Firs. New York: Doubleday, 1956.

Kennedy, Richard S. E.E. Cummings Revisited. New York: Twayne, 1994.

Kennedy, Richard S. Dreams in the Mirror: A Biography of e.e. cummings. New York:
Liveright Publishing Co; 1980.

Metalious, Grace. Peyton Place. New York: Dell, 1956.

Monteiro, George. Robert Frost and the New England Renaissance. Lexington,
Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 1988.

Salinger, J.D. Catcher in the Rye. Boston: Little, Brown, 1951.

Salinger, J.D. Franny and Zooey. Boston: Little, Brown, 1961.

Salinger, J.D. Nine Stories. New York: New American Library, 1960.

Sarton, May. Joanna and Ulysses, a Tale. New York: Norton, 1963.

Sarton, May. Shadow of a Man. New York: Rinehart, 1950.

Speare, Eva. Stories of New Hampshire. Somersworth: New Hampshire Pub Co; 1975.

Yates, Elizabeth. Howard Thurman, Portrait of a Practical Dreamer. New York: John Day, 1964.

RHODE ISLAND 

Bell, Millicent. Meaning in Henry James. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 1991.

Edel, Leon. Henry James: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1963.

Edel, Leon. Henry James, a Life. New York: Harper & Row, 1985.

Fogel, Daniel Mark. Daisy Miller: A Dark Comedy of Manners. Boston: Twayne, 1990.

Hocks, Richard A. Henry James: A Study of the Short Fiction. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1990.

Hutchinson, Stuart. Henry James: An American, as Modernist. Totawa, New Jersey: Barnes & Noble Books, 1983.

James, Henry. Novels, 1871-1880. New York: Viking Press, 1983.

James, Henry. Novels, 1881-1886. New York: Viking Press, 1985.

James, Henry. Novels, 1886-1890. New York: Viking Press, 1989.

Martin, W.R. Henry James's Apprenticeship: The Tales, 1864-1882.
Toronto: P.D. Meang, 1994.

Nash, Ogden. Family Reunion. Boston: Little, Brown, 1950.

OConnor, Edwin. All in the Family. Boston: Little, Brown, 1966.

Wharton, Edith. Collected Stories. New York: Putnam, 2001.

Wharton, Edith. Ethan Frome. New York: Scribner, 1939.

Wharton, Edith. The House of Mirth. New York: Scribner, 1905.

Wharton, Edith. Novellas and Other Writings. New York: Viking Press, 1990.

Wharton, Edith. Novels. New York: Viking, 1985.

Wilder, Thorton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. New York: Harper, 1967. 

VERMONT

Kinnell, Galway. The Book of Nightmares. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971.

Stegner, Wallace. Crossing to Safety. New York: Penguin Books, 1988.

Auchincloss, Louis. The Embezzler. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966.

Auchincloss, Louis. Portrait in Brownstone. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962.

Barker, Shirley. Swear by Apollo. New York: Random House, 1958.

Buck, Pearl S. The Good Earth. Cutchogue, New York: Buccaneer Books, 1992.

Buck, Pearl S. Imperial Woman. New York: J. Day Co; 1956.

Buck, Pearl S. Sons. Mount Kisco, New York: Moyer Bell Ltd; 1992.

Buck, Pearl S. The Time is Noon. New York: Pocket Books, 1968.

Delinsky, Barbara. Together Alone. New York: Harper Paperbacks, 1996.

Harte, Bret. The Best Short Stories of Bret Harte. New York: The Modern Library, 1947.

Harte, Bret. Openings in the Old Trail. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1902.

Harte, Bret. Selected Western Stories and Poems. Roslyn, New York: W.J. Black, 1932.

Hawkes, John. The Blood Oranges. New York: New Directions, 1971.

Hawkes, John. The Lime Twig. New York: New Directions, 1961.

Kipling, Rudyard. Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling. Garden City, New York: 
Doubleday, Page & Co; 1916.

Kipling, Rudyard. Puck of Pooks Hill. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1926.

Kipling, Rudyard. The Seven Seas. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page, 1926.

Kipling, Rudyard. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling. New York: 
Scribners Sons, 1899.

La Farge, Oliver. The Eagle in the Egg. New York: Arno Press, 1972.

La Farge, Oliver. Laughing Boy. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957.

Morison, Samuel Eliot. Admiral of the Ocean Sea, a Life of Christopher Columbus. 
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1942.

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