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On-line Literature in Virginia
Students and faculty in the American Studies Program at the University of Virginia have been working for some time to provide a variety of Internet resources for the AS community.
These now have enough richness and diversity that they may be of interest to subscribers to AAHESGIT. Most immediately useful are a series of core-texts in American literature and history, hypertexts, hypertexts
with full text search utilities, hypertexts with critical apparatus, and fully developed hypertexts that include large arrays of projects that place the central text in cultural context.
Texts now available include: The Education of Henry Adams, Wieland, The Red Badge of Courage, Letters from an American Farmer, Dicken's American Notes, Emerson's Representative Men,
Sister Carrie, Uncle Remus, Incidents in the life of a Slave Girl, Studies in Classic American Literature, The Journals of Lewis and Clark (abridged), Melville's The Confidence Man, The Oregon Trail, Uncle Tom's
Cabin, Walden, Turner's The Frontier in American History, Twain's Connecticut Yankee, Huckleberry Finn, Innocents Abroad, and Tom Sawyer, and Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class. In addition, the texts of Henry
Nash Smith's Virgin Land: The West as Symbol and Myth and of Alexis deTocqueville's Democracy in America are presented inside of extensive hyper con-texts. <http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html>
In addition, we have an on-going project on the National Capitol Building where we are trying to read and re-present that structure as a hypertext, a quasi-sacred text of national
identity. <http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/cap_home.html> We also maintain the American Studies Yellow Pages, a series of subject specific guides for American Studies and related fields. These current, selective, and descriptive pointers to Internet resources can be found at: <http://xroads.virginia.edu/~YP/yp_home.html>
Finally, those subscribers who are interested in the ways in which this site and these assets are integrated into the teaching and learning process here at Virginia should go to: <http://xroads.virginia.edu/~AS@UVA/aspgrm.html>
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