Daily Log

Wednesday, April 15

Students took a short open-book quiz over last nights reading on the Realist period of American Literature, and we went over the answers, after which we compared the Realistivc and Romantic outlooks via a contrast between Stephen Crane's dialogue of man with the Universe and Emerson's account of his oneness with the Universal Being.

Finally, we posed, and addressed the question "Is Huckleberry Finn a Romantic or a Realistic novel?"