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Charles Van Loon, teenage abolitionist
For the time being, Charles was not yet sufficiently evangelized to rise above his prejudice.
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Ten YUGE WINS for Melvilliana in 2024
Greetings from the Minnesota bank of beautiful Lake Pepin, otherwise known as the Mississippi River.
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All I want is a good listener
Writing, talking, and rewriting like Herman Melville in "Scenes Beyond the Western Border" (1851-1853). No. 1, Introduction.
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Saint Elizabeth's miracle of roses in Melville's "Rosary Beads"
I. Take the best right now.
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Lacordaire in Clarel
Greetings from the prairie, Dear Subscriber!
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Blessings of snow and bad ventilation
Documenting Melville's debts to familiar science in "Poor Man's Pudding" (1854)
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Borrowed thunder, part 2
Melville's rewrite of familiar science in "The Lightning-Rod Man"
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