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Faulkner websites:

http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/Faulkner.htm (links to many Faulkner items on the web)

http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/faulkner.html ("William Faulkner on the Web": timeline, plot summaries, good character encyclopedia)

http://www.usask.ca/english/faulkner/ (This is the hypertext edition of The Sound and the Fury.)

http://www.withoutsanctuary.org (This is the very disturbing and important site about lynchings in the U.S., with eighty photographs that will trouble your sleep.)

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/archive/permalink/the_miscegenation_hoax/ (About the origins of the word "miscegenation" and its role in mid-19th century American politics.)

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/absalom/index2.html (This is the amazing study of the chronology of Absalom, Absalom! and will help you sort out who's speaking what when.)

Cather websites:

http://cather.unl.edu/ (Willa Cather Archive at University of Nebraska: site is growing by the day, with some scholarly editions, with annotations, already available, along with biography, bibliography, photos, links to biographies, including Woodress's)

http://www.gustavus.edu/oncampus/academics/english/cather/ (Willa Cather page at Gustavus Adolphus College: biography, bibliography, quotations, good biographical links, links to works available on the Web)

http://faculty.pittstate.edu/~knichols/cathart.html (Interesting site offering art objects that are mentioned in Cather's novels or suggested by her novels; includes a good image of Saint Gaudens' Diana that features so prominently in My Mortal Enemy.)

http://www.womenwriters.net/domesticgoddess/catherguide.html (Good list of critical essays and books on Cather up to about 2000; links to Cather's works on the Web)

 

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