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A Literary Tour of the United States

Summary

Travel to the mid-Atlantic region to explore its richly diverse literature, beginning with 19th-century writer Rebecca Harding Davis. Learn the stories behind the gothic tales of Edgar Allan Poe. Note Frederick Douglass' monumental writing on slavery, and the brilliant social fiction of bell hooks, Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle, and Barbara Kingsolver.

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