Chesnutt Works Online
http://docsouth.unc.edu
Documenting the American
South, University of North Carolina, has etext (HTML and SGML/TEI formats) of the six books
published in Chesnutt's live time--The Conjure Woman, The Wife of His Youth, The
House Behind the Cedars, The Marrow of Tradition, The Colonel's Dream, and Frederick Douglass.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia offers
SGML (and readable as HTML) versions of "The Partners" and "The Free-Colored People of North Carolina."
Course Sites, Historical Sites, Biographical Sites, Commercial Sites:
http://lead.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap6/chesnutt.html
(Part of Paul Rueben's
"PAL: Perspectives in American Literature--A Research and Reference Guide" this page offers
links to etexts, bibliography, and study questions.)
http://www.virginia.edu/~history/courses/courses.old/hius323/chesnutt.html (This page in
a history course site offers a short biography and a bibliography.)
http://www.ncwriters.org/cchestnu.htm
(This page from the North Carolina Writers'
Network offers a brief biography, a brief excerpt from The House Behind the Cedars, a
bibliography, and information about the Charles Chesnutt Association.)
http://loa.org/chesnutt/
(Aimed at promoting the Library of America's Charles W. Chesnutt: Stories, Novels, and Essays single-volume collection of selected works, this site provides a variety of matierals, including information about Chesnutt's career, a few short selections from Chesnutt's journal, commentary by Werner Sollors, the editor of the Library of American volume, and a clip of Veiled Aristocrats, a film version of House Behind the Cedars.
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