Description
A view of early American writers from John D and Abigail Adams and the founding fathers through slave literature with Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglas and finishing with Hawthorne, Thoreau, and the Cowboy and the Lady: Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Discussion will highlight the contrast between British Literature with its slow, gentle pace and American Literature with its sense of immediacy and harshness.
