Using Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” as a launching point, and bringing in at least one of the four poems we’ve studied, discuss one of the nineteenth century movements listed above (or suggest one of your own via email).
Within the confines of a short, sixteen-week, survey course, we don’t have the luxury of spending too much time in the nineteenth century. Nevertheless, in our brief time exploring this monumental century in the history of the United States, we’ve observed some converging and conflicting movements and attitudes including but not limited to: Rugged individualism […]