Hello friends. I'm looking into early American lit. Can

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Anonymous 2016-02-23 02:58:11 Post No. 7731739 [Report]

Hello friends. I'm looking into early American lit.

Can anyone recommend some introductory (preferably shorter) writing by any of the following:

>Ralph Waldo Emerson
>Nathaniel Hawthorne
>Louisa May Alcott

I'm interested in prose, essays, poems, anything you think is good and/or characteristic.

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Anonymous 2016-02-23 03:04:43 Post No.7731773
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Anonymous 2016-02-23 03:04:43 Post No.7731773 [Report]

>>7731739
have you considered some of the early political writers? like Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine? how about Charles Brockden Brown?

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Anonymous 2016-02-23 03:09:39 Post No.7731797
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Anonymous 2016-02-23 03:09:39 Post No.7731797 [Report]

>>7731739
Hawthorne Tales & Sketches. Whatever emerson book is in print (he writes essays, so they are all short).

Dunno anything about Alcott's daughter

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Anonymous 2016-02-23 03:10:33 Post No.7731802
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Anonymous 2016-02-23 03:10:33 Post No.7731802 [Report]

>>7731739
Kate Chopin

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Anonymous 2016-02-23 03:17:09 Post No.7731814
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Anonymous 2016-02-23 03:17:09 Post No.7731814 [Report]

>>7731797

thanks

>>7731773

no, I'm looking at the Transcendentalists mostly for some information on the roots of the early environmental movement.

Franklin and Paine are very important and I would like to read Paine at some point but one has priorities, alas.