Week 10: The Romantic Temper and the House Divided
The Concord Writers
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No other American community outside New York can claim a community of thinkers, artists, and writers as rich as those who lived in Concord, Massachusetts, in the early 1830's.  Hawthorne, Thoreau, Emerson, Louisa May Alcott--they were only four of almost two dozen influential Americans who shaped American philosophy, the development of American letters, and the character of American communities. 

Readings 
Ralph Waldo Emerson 
"Self Reliance" 
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Nathaniel Hawthorne 
"Young Goodman Brown" 
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Henry David Thoreau 
"Civil Disobedience"  
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Study Guide for Week 10 

Online Resources 

Writing Assignment 
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Sage of Concord"
 
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Click here to see a photo of Thoreau's grave in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts. 

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