Literature 3410 - Hawthorne,Melville,and Literary Friendship

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Bard College

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During a mountain picnic in the summer of 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville struck up a private conversation. That champagne-fueled talk issued into an intense, maddening, and relatively brief friendship that was mediated by writing, given expression in writing, and is approachable only by way of writing. What was it like? After acquainting themselves with the two writers' careers before 1850, students read everything Hawthorne and Melville wrote between the summer of 1850 and the fall of 1852, the period of their intimacy: The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, Moby-Dick, Pierre, letters, journals, marginalia, a children's book, and a campaign biography. Early in the semester, students visit Melville's house in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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