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Alex and Matt return this week to discuss John Bunyan's 1678 work of allegorical fiction, 'The Pilgrim's Progress.' The significance of Pilgrim's Progress in anglo mythology. Bunyan's proletarian background. Why does Pilgrim's Progress remind us to hate our family, John Bunyan vs. against and civility. Bunyan choosing prison over selling out for the sake of being with his family. Coolio and walking in the Shadow of the Valley of Death. More anti-Catholicism. Wanton women Vanity Fair and Bunyan's ability to write in prison. Bunyan's traumatic relationship with documentation.

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References:

Excellent narration of the full text from Aneko Press:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMtmnv84GxY&t=20433s

Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan. ''IntelliQuest World's 100 Greatest Books'' 1995

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZIgLVa9WkA

Seidel, Kevin. "Pilgrim's Progress and the Book." ELH 77, no. 2 (2010): 509-534.

Greaves, Richard L. ""Let Truth Be Free": John Bunyan and the Restoration Crisis of 1667-1673." Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies 28, no. 4 (1996): 587-605.

Today, Alex, Grace, and Matt talk about Arthur Miller's 1953 play 'The Crucible' and its Salem Witch Trial and McCarthyite contexts. Miller in 1992 on why the market is failing theater and why the state needs to sponsor it. Arthur Miller, fellow-travelling and the House Un-American Activities Committee. Early witch culture that likely influenced the girls' performances/delusions. Samuel Parris fails at life, squanders fathers' plantation fortune. Tituba was more indigenous than black, and didn't introduce witchcraft to the community. The Putnam family and the rural/urban, agricultural/commercial divide. Abigail and Marilyn Monroe. How his relationship with Marilyn Monroe made Miller a target for HUAC. Hale and the limits of ideology. Proctor and the propaganda value of a name.

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Act One of The Crucible here:

https://youtu.be/Dtr9RGeHnPM

References:

An Unofficial Cultural Ambassador - Arthur Miller and the Cultural Cold War. Abrams, N. D., Romijn, P. (ed.), Scott-Smith, G. (ed.) & Segal, J. (ed.), 1 Jan 2012, Divided Dreamworlds? : The Cultural Cold War in East and West. 2012 ed. Amsterdam University Press, p. 13-32

American Masters: None Without Sin documentary (2003)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cf9r94ZIyg

Baker, Emerson W. 2016. Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience. New York: Oxford Univ Press.

Boyer, Paul S., and Stephen Nissenbaum. 1974. Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft.

Hill, Frances. 2002. A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials. Cambrigde, MA.: Da Capo Press.

Arthur Miller with Charlie Rose in 1992

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coWRDfpqa6A

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Grace joins Alex and Matt once again to discuss Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave, published in 1688. The eponymous hero is an African prince from Coramantien who is tricked into slavery and sold to British colonists in Surinam where he meets the narrator. Behn's text is a first-person account of his life, love, rebellion, and execution. Written by Aphra Behn, who was - in addition to being a spy, feminist, monarchist, and original tory - the first professional female writer.

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References:

BBC's In Our Time podcast on Aphra Behn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnVkzdCOu7Q&t=1822s

Oroonoko and the Rise of the Novel by William Smith on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htVteRU9450

Todd, Janet. 1998. The Critical Fortunes of Aphra Behn. Columbia, SC: Camden House.

Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave on Librivox:

https://librivox.org/oroonoko-or-the-royal-slave-by-aphra-behn/

Alex and Matt return, this time to discuss the social, political and material origins of the Salem Witch Trials. Indian and imperial war trauma in the late 1600s. The Glorious Revolution and the coup of Andros by puritan leaders in Massachusetts. The economic divide between mercantile Salem Town and the agricultural offshoot that was ground zero for the outbreak, Salem Village. Increase and Cotton Mather's responsibility in spreading belief in witches. The difference between witch hunts and awakenings being in the interpretation of adults. Gender and witch accusations. George Burrough's perfect recitation of the Lord's prayer. Sleep paralysis, conversion disorder, and fraud as all explanations for the witch accusations. Cotton Mather's damage control for the Puritan theocracy, The Wonders of the Invisible World. European witch history.

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References:

Baker, Emerson W. 2016. Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience. New York: Oxford Univ Press.

Boyer, Paul S., and Stephen Nissenbaum. 1974. Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft.

Hill, Frances. 2002. A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials. Cambrigde, MA.: Da Capo Press.

Glorious Revolution by Jabzy on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g77WJU3aQEA))

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Hey LitHangers! Matt's solo this week with an introduction to the first novel by one of the 19th century's "social justice warriors" named Lydia Maria Child. Hobomok can be seen as a precursor to Hope Leslie (1827), and is an interesting book in its own right that takes 'other' natives, deviant colonial men, and colonial women from the periphery to the center of the narrative.

References:

Dr. Cornel West on the Joe Rogan Experience (relevent portion at 1h02m)

Child, Lydia Maria; Carolyn L. Karcher. 2011. Hobomok and Other Writings on Indians. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press.

Karcher, Carolyn L. 2012. The First Woman in the Republic A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child. Durham: Duke University Press.

The American History Podcast. Plymouth 7: The Lyford Affair. Posted on April 10, 2018

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Alex and Matt return to finish James Fenimore Cooper's "The Pioneers." The relationship between colonization and racism. Submerged nobility in Cooper's fiction. How American colonization really took off after 1776. Turkey shoots and how Natty calling Cooper's first non-slave black character the N-word illustrates the work of Frantz Fanon. Passenger pigeons as the east coast's bison and how cops like to useold military equipment. Natty's principled opposition to surplus. Marmaduke Temple's elite conservationism. Places not described in books. Economic espionage by the new sheriff. Kirby as the urban, proletarian Natty. Why jailbreaks were indeed common in the real life Cooperstown. Marmaduke Temple's double-dipping on behalf of the Effinghams.

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Sources:

Librivox's recording of The Pioneers

Buchholz, Douglas. Landownership and Representation of Social Conflict in The Pioneers. Presented at the 7th Cooper Seminar, James Fenimore Cooper: His Country and His Art at the State University of New York College at Oneonta, July, 1989

de Fee, Nicole. The Postcolonial Paradox of a Re-imagined History in Cooper's The Pioneers. Presented at the Cooper Panel No. 1 (General Topics) of the 2008 Conference of the American Literature Association in San Francisco

Slotkin, Richard. 1973. Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860. Middletown, Conn: Wesleyan University Press.

Taylor, Alan. The Great Change Begins: Settling the Forest of Central New York. Published in New York History, Vol. LXXV, No. 3 (July 1995), pp. 265-290.

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Alex and I discuss the underrated first novel of James Fenimore Cooper's 'Leatherstocking Tales,' ***The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale. ***We discuss James' father 'self- made' landlord father, William, who settled central New York after obtaining massive amounts of land following the flux of the American Revolution. William and James, slaveowners. Coopers lamentable race science fixation and commendable proto-Marxist materialism. Judge Temple as the first Dick Cheney. The American frontier myth. Maple trees as short-term and long-term commodities. No settlements without commodification. Environmentalism as a test of gentility. Maple sugar: the market solution to carribbean sugar slavery.

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Sources:

Barbara Mann and Alan Taylor, April 23, 2001. Writings of James Fenimore Cooper on C-Span ( https://www.c-span.org/video/?163765-1/writings-james-fenimore-cooper )

Taylor, Alan. 1995. William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic. New York: A.A. Knopf.

The Pioneers read by Gary W. Sherwin ( https://librivox.org/the-pioneers-by-james-fenimore-cooper/ )

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This week, Chris and I take a look at Rutger Bregman's "Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World." We revisit Bregman's two viral moments: telling Davos the answer is to raie taxes and telling Tucker Carlson he's part of that problem. The need for imagination and AOC. Good UBIs and trash UBIs like Andrew Yang's. "Non-reformist reforms." Nationalism and basic incomes. Bregman's open borders argument. 15-hour work works. Nationalistic rhetoric.ch

References:

Bregman, Rutger, and Elizabeth Manton. 2017. Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World.

Battistoni, Alyssa. "The False Promise of Universal Basic Income." Dissent Magazine. Accessed July 06, 2019. https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/false-promise-universal-basic-income-andy-stern-ruger-bregman.

Chavez, Aida. "Tucker Carlson on Rupert Murdoch in 2010 Radio Segment: "I'm 100 Percent His Bitch"." The Intercept. March 12, 2019. Accessed July 06, 2019. https://theintercept.com/2019/03/12/tucker-carlson-tapes-rupert-murdoch/.

Davos 2019 - The Cost of Inequality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mG-r_3eRCw

Bernie Sanders Endorsed by "Gordon Gekko"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wAa9DqHZtM

How To: Academy: Rutger Bregman - How to Build a Better World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aDelnwNmDQ

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Alex and Matt discuss Nathaniel Hawthorne's third major novel, inspired by his time at the Transcendentalist/Fourierist Brook Farm Commune in West Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1841. A deeper introduction to utopian socialist Charles Fourier, who is mentioned in both this novel and The House of the Seven Gables. Hawthorne's fear of mesmerism and political reform. Coverdale's incel energy. Hollingsworth's fascist misogyny. Women's work. Marx and Engels dunk on utopian socialists.

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References:

Beauchamp, Gorman (2002). Hawthorne and the Universal Reformers. Utopian Studies. 13 (2):38 - 52.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, and Richard H. Millington. The Blithedale Romance. New York: W.W. Norton, 2011.

Jennings, Chris. Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism. New York: Random House, 2017.

Lawrence, D. H. Studies in Classic American Literature.1923. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP6wDm8WHGk

Marx, Karl, Friedrich Engels, and A. J. P. Taylor. The Communist Manifesto. New York: Penguin Books, 1985.

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Alex, Grace, and Matt are back to discuss the extraordinary (for structural reasons!) life of Margaret Fuller, a feminist and later socialist who is often mentioned in relation to the Transcendentalists. We talk about her time as a professional conversationalist in Boston, her self-sacrificing editorship of 'The Dial,' the Transcendentalist magazine. The tuopian community Brook Farm. Fuller the columnist/foreign correspondent at Horace Greeley's New York Tribune. Her Orwell-like radicalisation in Europe during the revolutionary 1840s.

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Sources:

Librivox narration by Elizabeth Klett:

https://librivox.org/woman-in-the-nineteenth-century-and-kindred-papers-relating-to-the-sphere-condition-and-duties-of-women-by-margaret-fuller/

Interlock Media, Jorge Alonso Maldonado Performances and Films. Margaret Fuller Documentary.YouTube. July 20, 2017. Accessed May 25, 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQgQHj_CeNo.

Kennedy, J. Gerald. Strange Nation: Literary Nationalism and Cultural Conflict in the Age of Poe. New-York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Marshall, Megan. Margaret Fuller: A New American Life. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.

Matteson, John. The Lives of Margaret Fuller: A Biography. New York, NY: W.W. Norton &, 2013.

Wineapple, Brenda. Hawthorne: A Life. Knopf, 2003.