Literary Series with Mark Scarbrough: The American Literary Renaissance Reconsidered: Whitman and Hawthorne in Conversation with Douglass and Stoddard – Library
The Cornwall Library 30 Pine St, Cornwall, CT, United StatesTuesday mornings, September 29, 2026, through November 17, 2026, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. In the 1940s, Harvard scholar F. O. Matthiessen reinvented U. S. literary history by resurrecting the almost forgotten writers from the years before the Civil War: Hawthorne, Thoreau, Melville, and Whitman (along with the still-recognized Emerson). Since then, Matthiessen’s roll call [Read More...]
