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American Literature, 1607-1865 (Lance): Week Five

American Literature 1 (taught by Instructor Lance)

The American Renaissance, Part Two

This week's selection of readings.

From Walden (needs page numbers or chapters)
by Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Young Goodman Brown
by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

Bear Hunt (need more info)
by David Crockett (1786-1836)

The Big Bear of Arkansas
by Thomas Bangs Thorpe (1815-1878)

Two Masters (need more info)
by Frederick Douglass (1817-1895)