Essay on John brown American Literature in Context to 1865, the 2005 The Atlantic article about John Brown and the two The Atlantic articles from 1872 by Franklin Sanborn
Using American Literature in Context to 1865, the 2005 The Atlantic article about John Brown and the two The Atlantic articles from 1872 by Franklin Sanborn (there are links to these articles in the 2005 article), write a 2 page essay about how the example of John Brown–the man, the myth, the inspiration for a wide range of literary production–shows us how all American Literature (and specifically American literary production from before 1865) continues to be “rewritten” and sometimes understood anew as history continues.