A five-page paper comparing two (or more) books we have read on one of the topics below or on a topic of your own choosing, provided you run in by me first. One of the books you discuss should come from the readings after Cooper.
lists of books:
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
Harper lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Fredrick Douglass, Narrative
Suggested topics:
The representation of slavery;
Individualism and solidarity;
Democracy and difference;
Thinking and acting (consider, e.g., Franklin, Douglass, Coverdale, Ishmael);
Idealism and its discontents (obsession?) (consider, e.g., Carwin, Hollingsworth, Ahab);
Classification.
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