Out from Behind this Mask

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

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