The purpose of this blog site is to establish a listing of resources for the research of American literary texts published between 1845 and 1855, focusing in particular on the following representative narratives from the period:
Fanny Fern - Ruth Hall
Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Blithedale Romance
Johnson Jones Hooper - Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs
Herman Melville - Moby Dick
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Henry David Thoreau - Walden
Each of the abstracts listed below summarizes research involving a cluster of topically associated primary or secondary sources related to one of the texts listed above. The relavance of these materials to a fuller understanding of these works is outlined in the abstracts. Interpretive analysis applying insights gained from the research to specific aspects of the texts is also provided.
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