Bronnen

Secundaire literatuur

• Adams, Bella: Asian American Literature, Edinburgh University Press, 2008
• J. Bakker & Nelleke Rademaker, Britse & Amerikaanse literatuur van deze eeuw, 1991
• Bertens, Hans & D'haen, Theo: Geschiedenis van de Amerikaanse literatuur, De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam, 1983
• Bertens, Hans & D'haen, Theo: Amerikaanse literatuur, een geschiedenis, Acco Leuven/Voorburg, 2008
• Brodwin, Stanley: The Old and New World Romanticism of Washington Irving, Greenwood Press, 1986
• Gray, Richard: A history of American literature, second edition, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011
• Grabo, Norman S.: The Coincidental Art of Charles Brockden Brown, University of North Carolina Press, 1981
• Halleck, Reuben Post: History of American Literature, eBooksLib, 2011
• Hayes, Kevin J.: A Journey through American Literature, Oxford University Press, 2012
• Hendin,Josephine: A Concise Companion to Postwar American Literature and Culture, Wiley-Blackwell, 2004
• Janssens, G.A.M. : De Amerikaanse roman: 1950 - 1975, Polak & Van Gennep, Amsterdam, 1976
• Jay, Gregory S.: American Literature & the Culture Wars, Cornell University Press, 1997
• Pizer,Donald: Realism and Naturalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Southern Illinois University Press, 1984
• Sharp,Michael D.: Popular Contemporary Writers - Vol. 1, Marshall Cavendish Reference, 2006

Anthologieën

• Baym, Nina en anderen: The Norton Anthology of American Literature - Third edition VOL I and II, 1989
• Baym, Nina en Levine, Robert S. The Norton Anthology Of American Literature, Volume E - Literature since 1945, Eighth edition, 2012
• Lyon,Thomas J.: The Literary West: An Anthology of Western American Literature, Oxford University Press, 1999

Andere

• Aerts, J., Bachrach A.G.H. et al.: Moderne encyclopedie der wereldliteratuur, Brand & de Boer, Hilversum, 1963 - 1977.