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Focus on literature (mostly prose) of about 1800-1865. Possible rubric:
Sentiment(s), Higher and Lower. Along with traditionally canonical works by
the likes of Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Poe, and Hawthorne, we will consider
such popular successes as Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom,
Rowson's Charlotte Temple: A Tale of Truth (including a chapter titled
"Which Persons Void of Feeling Need Not Read"), Brown's Wieland:
Or, the Transformation (biloquism, ventrilocution, and other deviant behaviors
among the wealthy), selections from Harris's Sut Lovingood ("Yarns
Spun by a Nat'ral Born Durn Fool"), Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin; or,
Life among the Lowly, and Melville's Typee (stirring times among
the cannibals).
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