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

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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

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This week Alex and I discuss one of Nathaniel Hawthorne's earliest short stories, 'Young Goodman Brown,' published anonymously in The New-England Magazine in 1835.

References:

Dr. Barry Wood's lectures from 1997 on Hawthorne and Puritans from U. of Houston, 'Nathaniel Hawthorne: Return to Puritanism.'

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nzON7iPsfA&t=4328s)

Hawthorne biographer Brenda Wineapple on CSPAN in 2003, talking about her book (also referenced) 'Hawthorne: A Life."

(https://youtu.be/E2ROtZCxrJM)

Brian Roberg's Librivox narration of 'Young Goodman Brown.'

(https://librivox.org/short-story-collection-002/)

'An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States' by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

'A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience' by Emerson W. Baker

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Hello everyone. Alex and I are back with another discussion of a famous early Washington Irving tale, 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.' We talk about Ichabod Crane as a cautionary tale for a "new man" moving to an insular American village. What does the killing of Ichabod, the supersitious, voracious, friend-zoned school teacher tell us about American openness to the stranger? Follow us on twitter:

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References:

Listen to the full 90-minute story as read by Librivox volunteer Bob Neufeld here. https://librivox.org/the-legend-of-sleepy-hollow-by-washington-irving-2/

Biographer Brian Jay Jones on Irving at the New York Society Library https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZH6JJw6ngY&t=683s

Hello everyone. Alex joins me this week to discuss Washington Irving's short story, Rip Van Winkle, a pioneering narrative inbeing annoyed with ones wife. This is the public version of Literary Hangover. To support the show, consider becoming a patron at patreon.com/literaryhangover, giving reviews in iTunes, Stitcher, etc and most happily telling your friends Follow us on twitter: @LitHangover @mattlech @Alecks_Guns

References: "Peter Klaus," the folk tale Rip Van WInkle was based upon. https://www.worldoftales.com/European_folktales/German_folktale_6.html Biographer Brian Jay Jones on Irving at the New York Society Library https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZH6JJw6ngY&t=683s Michael Warner, "Irving's Posterity" in ELH (Fall 2000) "The American Experience: A Collection of Great American Stories" at Audible "Washington Irving and the Conservative Imagination," Allen Guttmann, American Literature (May, 1964)

Matt and Alex (@Alecks_Guns) talk about the first popular "American" novel in James Fenimore Cooper's "The Spy," and how Americans have learned to view the revolution. Special thanks to Grant Ertl of Aquanaut Media for the Literary Hangover podcast artwork.

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References:

The Spy, read by Flo Gibson (available through Audible)

The Spy, read by the Librivox community.

The James Fenimore Cooper Society at State University of New York College at Oneonta

“The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America” by Gerald Horne

"Strange Nation: Literary Nationalism and Cultural Conflict in the Age of Poe ," by J Gerald Kennedy

"Who Reads an American Book?" (1820) by Reverend Sydney Smith

“American Revolutions: A Continental History,” 1750-1804 by Alan Taylor

“Fenimore Cooper's America” by Alan Taylor, History Today. 46.2 (Feb. 1996)

“The Unruly City: Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution,” by Mike Rapport

“Cooper's The Spy and the Popular Spy Novel,” by Bruce A. Rosenberg, American Transcendental Quarterly (1993)