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| | English 241 - American Literature to 1860 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Melville's first novel, Typee, caused some scandal and was issued in an expurgated edition for its references to homosexuality, for which he employed such nautical slang as 'rounding the Horn,' and no public scandal at all for its depiction of a heterosexual orgy on deck between Marquesan women and American sailors. |
| | Haaser, a junior, said she chose to make the statement as part of an English class assignment, which required that she engage in a nonconformist act in the tradition of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. |
| | Charles Lyell, the best-known English geologist of the era -- and a keen observer of the US southern states, where he traveled extensively -- recommended Agassiz, who came to the United States in 1846 and two years later accepted a professorship of zoology and geology at Harvard. |
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