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Teachers and critics talk about being "in conversation" with literature. The American Writers Museum™ will be a place where these conversations come alive. This interactive museum will inspire visitors to connect with literature in fun, creative, and unexpected ways. The museum will cover the incredible range of American literature across genres, historical periods, and ethnic traditions. It will trace literature from its beginnings in the sermons of Edwards and the poetry of Bradstreet and Wheatley, through Emerson’s transcendentalism and Douglass’s abolitionism, to the astonishing poetry of Whitman and Dickinson, the great society novels of Wharton and James, the early feminism of Alcott and Fuller, and the social critiques of Steinbeck and Sinclair. |