tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7499582243291531753.post8518289884561567122..comments2023-10-12T07:13:01.637-04:00Comments on The American Literary Blog: Dana and a "select company"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7499582243291531753.post-86389206769221225222010-12-17T23:44:29.638-05:002010-12-17T23:44:29.638-05:00Interesting man, Dana, and an anti-slavery activis...Interesting man, Dana, and an anti-slavery activist. Unfortunately, he was less inclined toward women's rights (not unusual at the time). His 1849 lecture series ridiculed that cause--which Lucretia Mott ably rebutted in her "Discourse on Woman" lecture, delivered in Philadelphia and later distributed in print.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7499582243291531753.post-35692853091291489732010-12-16T10:16:38.785-05:002010-12-16T10:16:38.785-05:00Love the image of Dana! I'm still working my w...Love the image of Dana! I'm still working my way - with many interruptions and detours - through Dana's three volumes of his journals. Wonderful descriptions of sojourns at sea and to the White Mountains, Maine, &c. Dana sometimes likes to dress in rough attire and frequent the lowly places in cities where he has long conversations with fallen women. Don't think I would characterize Two Years as a novel. I just me got another copy - I'm always giving the one I have away.Jim Cookehttp://www.crankyyankees.netnoreply@blogger.com