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Apocalyptic Hope:  Literature of the American Renaissance

Wednesday and Friday, 8:30 - 9:50, D38

John Sheehy

Resources on the Web

• Searchable E-texts:

• Emerson's Essays
• Melville's Moby Dick
• Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener"
• Thoreau, Walden
• Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience"
• Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
• Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
  • "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"
• Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
• Whitman's poetry
• Dickinson's poetry
• Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
• 19th Century American Timeline