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SUMMARY:Literary Series with Mark Scarbrough: The American Literary Renais
 sance Reconsidered: Whitman and Hawthorne in Conversation with Douglass a
 nd Stoddard – Library
LOCATION:The Cornwall Library\, 30 Pine St\, Cornwall\, CT 06753
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday mornings\, September 29\, 2026\, through November 17\,
  2026\, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. In the 1940s\, Harvard scholar F. O. Mat
 thiessen reinvented U. S. literary history by resurrecting the almost for
 gotten 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 of the greats has dominated much of what w
 e see as the move from the early Republic to the Civil War crack-up in 18
 61. However\, Matthiessen’s scholarship omitted vast swaths of writers wh
 o didn’t fit his notion of the Transce\n\nOrganizer: https://cornwallct.o
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