temperance – Global Posts http://tags.lookingforwhitman.org Just another Looking for Whitman weblog Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:15:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.30 Class Notes – 11/17/09 http://mkgold.lookingforwhitman.org/2009/11/17/class-notes-111709/ Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:53:22 +0000 http://227.391 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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]]> Class Notes – 11/17/09 http://mkgold.lookingforwhitman.org/2009/11/17/class-notes-111709/ Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:53:22 +0000 http://227.391 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.

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