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Themes in Franklin Evans; how do they show up in Whitman’s other work?
– destruction
– death
– liquor
– going astray
– being lost
– optimism –> despair
– city as dangerous
– tempation
– concern for health, the body
Issues of Genre
– temperance novels
– literature of moral reform
– episodic nature of narrative
– didacticism
Check out our group wire post for current assignments and the Projects Info page on our course blog for descriptions of those assignments.
Themes in Franklin Evans; how do they show up in Whitman’s other work?
– destruction
– death
– liquor
– going astray
– being lost
– optimism –> despair
– city as dangerous
– tempation
– concern for health, the body
Issues of Genre
– temperance novels
– literature of moral reform
– episodic nature of narrative
– didacticism
Check out our group wire post for current assignments and the Projects Info page on our course blog for descriptions of those assignments.