Hi all, here is the third installment of my narration of Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie; or, Early Times in the Massachusetts for members. This is the end of Volume 1.

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Hi all, in preparations for the this week's episode, Part 2 on Hope Leslie, here is the second installment of my narration originally released for for members.

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Hi everyone! At long last, the first episode on Catharine Maria Sedgwick's 'Hope Leslie, Or, Early Times in the Massachusetts. This week, Alex and I are joined by Grace to break down the whodunit? of Sedgwick's erasure from the American literary canon, the incredible amount of still-relevant social isssues she includes in her novel, as well as a look at some of the limitations of 19th century humanitarian liberalism. Thanks for the support.

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References:

Bell, Michael Davitt. "History and Romance Convention in Catharine Sedgwick's "Hope Leslie"." American Quarterly 22, no. 2 (1970): 213-21. doi:10.2307/2711644.

CREMER, ANDREA ROBERTSON. "Possession: Indian Bodies, Cultural Control, and Colonialism in the Pequot War." Early American Studies6, no. 2 (2008): 295-345. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23546576.

Kalayjian, Patricia Larson. "Revisioning America's (Literary) Past: Sedgwick's "Hope Leslie"." NWSA Journal8, no. 3 (1996): 63-78. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4316461.

Hi everyone! In preparation for the first Hope Leslie episode on Saturday, I'm unlocking (previously available at Patreon.com/literaryhangover) the first installment of my narration of Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie; or, Early Times in the Massachusetts for members. These are the chapters that Grace, Alex, and I talk about.

Once I'm finished, I'll upload it to Librivox where my (admittedly amateurish) narration will be immortalized in the public domain for as long as the internet exists. Not only is there not a good audiobook narration for Hope Leslie, there really isn't a very good free full text copy. The one linked above is only useful in PDF format. There's a good Penguin Classics edition of the book however. Some of the language is antiquated, so you may want a copy to read along with. https://archive.org/details/hopeleslieorearl01sedg

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Hi everyone! Apologies for being a couple days late but it'll have been worth it as I think this came together nicely: to accompany Hope Leslie, a brief overview of the Pequot 'War' that is featured in the novel, New England's first genocide. Recommended reading:

God, War, and Providence: The Epic Struggle of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians Against the Puritans of New England by James A Warren (2018)

American Colonies: The Settling of North America by Alan Taylor (2001)

Academic works cited: Katherine A. Grandjean. "New World Tempests: Environment, Scarcity, and the Coming of the Pequot War." The William and Mary Quarterly 68, no. 1 (2011): 75-100.

Andrew C. Lipman. "Murder on the Saltwater Frontier: The Death of John Oldham." Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 9, no. 2 (2011): 268-294

YouTube videos cited:

Annowon Weeden discusses wampum with the Boston Children’s Museum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUZRsT7rGMs&t=2s

Mystic Voices - The Pequot War

https://youtu.be/oPjGprOVtsQ

Part 2

https://youtu.be/UeWqRq9NrRc

Massacre at Mystic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLWthdTU7CY&t=2117s

Steven Crowder's dumb ass:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxYVbC283uM

Hi everyone! Chris and I return with a book club discussion on Corey Robin's "The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump," on of my favorite books on conservative ideology. TOPICS:

Chapter 2, "On Counterrevolution," Conservatism as ideology of losers

Majority Report Zero Sum Debate

https://youtu.be/SbITzwJdOMw?t=258

4m23-8m25

Anger at a decadent ruling class Tucker Carlson Clips Ranting Against GOP and NIKE

Corey Robin @ Harvard Law on the Second Edition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rw0WNXNZUg

10m45-17m30 Trump/GOP surprising impotence.

47m-57m10 GOP/Reactionaries as Victims of Winning

Third Audiobook Clip On Ayn Rand and Hitler's Capitalist Meritocracy (From 'Metaphysics & Chewing Gum, Ch 7)

-Trump tax story:

"Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father" -NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html

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Final Hawthorne for a bit! Alex returns and Kara premiers as we talk about 'The Scarlet Letter' as a the earliest story kids read that's fundamentally about sex, MTV Cribs, cuckold vengeance, and more. References:

"Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne," C-SPAN, May 2001

https://www.c-span.org/video/?164017-1/writings-nathaniel-hawthorne

Massachusetts Dress Ways: The Puritan Taste for Simple Clothes and “Sadd” Colors, Erenow.com

https://erenow.com/common/fourbritishfolkwaysinamerica1989/26.html

'Cat Person,' New Yorker, December 2017

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/11/cat-person

Great Courses: Classics of American Literature

Hi everyone! Trying something different this week: Alex and I were joined by Chris to discuss a recent work of history by Barnard Bailyn, "The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675." Further references:

Alan Taylor's review in The New Republic:

https://newrepublic.com/article/112309/savage-new-world-barbarous-years-bernard-bailyn

Charles c. Mann's review in The NY Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/books/review/the-barbarous-years-by-bernard-bailyn.html

'Regeneration Through Violence,' by Richard Slotkin

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Today, we’re doing “The Custom-House,” which served as promo and introduction to The Scarlet Letter, as well as a score-settling political tract, topped off with a few defining paragraphs in which Hawthorne describes the process of “romantic” writing.

Sources:

Dustin Hannum, Sermons Out of Rags: Constitutionalism, Conspiracy Theory, and "Reading" the Scarlet Letter in Hawthorne's "Custom-House" Papers on Language & Literature. Spring 2015

Jorge Luis Borges on Nathaniel Hawthorne, via Immaculada Decepcion. (http://inmaculadadecepcion.blogspot.com/2007/12/jorge-luis-borges-nathaniel-hawthorne.html)

“Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne,” C-SPAN, May 21, 2001 featuring Brenda Wineapple and Elisa New, hosted by Susan Swain (https://www.c-span.org/video/?164017-1/writings-nathaniel-hawthorne)

“The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies,” by Alan Taylor, 2010

“The Crowninshield Elephant: The surprising story of Old Bet, the first elephant ever to be brought to America” By George G. Goodwin; Natural History, 1951

(http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/editors_pick/1928_05-06_pick.html)

The Hathorne Curse, (https://www.themystica.com/nathaniel-hawthorne/)

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Episode 5! Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The May-Pole of Merry Mount," which first appeared in The Token and Atlantic Souvenir in 1832. It was later included in Twice-Told Tales, a collection of Hawthorne's short stories, in 1837. It tells the story of the colony of Mount Wollaston, or Merry Mount, a 17th-century British colony located in what is now Quincy, Massachusetts. The story does not include "Merry Mount's" leader, Thomas Morton, who was a super interesting guy and, as I'll argue, America's first "globalist."

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References:

Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne (CSPAN, May 21, 2001) https://www.c-span.org/video/?164017-1/writings-nathaniel-hawthorne

"The very hydra of the time": Morton's New English Cannan and Atlantic trade" by Daniel Walden, Early American Literature. 48.2 (Spring 2013)

Jorge Luis Borges on Hawthorne https://inmaculadadecepcion.blogspot.com/2007/12/jorge-luis-borges-nathaniel-hawthorne.html?m=1

"The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies," by Alan Taylor

"Hawthorne: A Life,"by Brenda Wineapple