American Literature / Unit 18 AML 1734 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Marilynne Robinson and *Housekeeping*
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The idea
The witness places the nineteen eighty novel in a tradition of American writing about the individual and nature that runs through the Bible, Melville and Emerson. What Emerson described as becoming a transparent eyeball in the woods, Robinson brings into the built environment of a home.
In practice
Emerson's eyeball, moved indoors.
Where people slip
The lineage claimed is Emerson's, not Thoreau's.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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