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Secondary Education and Teaching

Lauren Gatti

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America, Lauren Gatti Dec 2014

America, Lauren Gatti

Lauren Gatti

Working poor, immigrant students in a Chicago high school puzzle over how Melville's character, Bartleby the Scrivener, could simply refuse to work.

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Conversing With Longfellow: Democratizing The American Literature Curriculum, Lauren Gatti Dec 2013

Conversing With Longfellow: Democratizing The American Literature Curriculum, Lauren Gatti

Lauren Gatti

Reconsidering Longfellow is the first collection of scholarly essays in several decades devoted entirely to the work and afterlife of the most popular and widely read writer in American literature. The essays, written by a new generation of Longfellow scholars, cover the entire range of Longfellow’s work, from the early poetry to the wildly successful epics of his middle period (Evangeline, The Song of Hiawatha) to his Chaucerian collection of stories published after the Civil War, Tales of a Wayside Inn. Separate contributions discuss Longfellow’s financial dealings, his investment in his children, and his interest in the visual arts, as …

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