ASTU 100 Quiz: ASTU HOMEWORK – FEB 7
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His work draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy and engagement in the contradictions of american society in a period of rapid change. Allusion = extends to scripture, myth, philosophy, literature and the visual arts imagery = mystical or ironic (cid:862)a doomed career(cid:863) 1852: wanting to get someone else to write this story (hawthorne) but ended up writing it himself in 1853, after his daughter was bor(cid:374) he tried to pu(cid:271)lish (cid:862)the isle of the cross(cid:863) (cid:271)ut the. Harpers prevented it from publishing: started a new career as a writer of magazine short stories. 1856: pu(cid:271)lished these stories i(cid:374) harper"s a(cid:374)d put(cid:374)a(cid:373)"s, harpers wanted him to write a book on tortoise hunting in the galapagos islands but he abandoned the project. Instead he serialized novels and then putnam published it as a book: he was also working on the confidence-man a satirical allegory on american optimism, which he completed that summer.
