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In this lesson, students are introduced to the history of the early American novel through the mid-1800s. The romance, sensational, and domestic-sentimental genres are examined, and Hawthorne’s transcendentalism in antebellum society is explored in his novel The Scarlet Letter. George Thompson’s Venus in Boston and Fanny Fern’s Ruth Hall novels are also included.
In this lesson, students are introduced to the history of the early American novel through the mid-1800s. The romance, sensational, and domestic-sentimental genres are examined, and Hawthorne’s transcendentalism in antebellum society is explored in his novel The Scarlet Letter. George Thompson’s Venus in Boston and Fanny Fern’s Ruth Hall novels are also included.
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Undergraduate
The Development of the American Novel
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