Articles with keyword "Nineteenth century"
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High Thinking and Low Living
How a mansion-turned-boardinghouse in Old Lyme, Connecticut, became the place to be for American Impressionists.
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A Summer Scene
While vacationing in Queens, Cooper suffers a fever and writes the violent twelfth chapter of The Last of the Mohicans
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In Defense of Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper was a major literary innovator with fans such as Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad. Take that, Mark Twain.
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The Agitator
William Lloyd Garrison burned the Constitution as he roared against the injustice of slavery.
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When Bram Met Walt
Before conjuring Dracula, Bram Stoker poured his soul out to America's poet.