The “Hartford of Mark Twain, Wallace Stevens, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, writers whose vast imaginations failed to hold, in either flesh or ink, bodies like ours.”
Literature and Connecticut
Connecticut has a very rich and well-known history of literature. Its reputation as a scenic land of academia is inescapable. However, as Vuong writes in On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, the historical and well known writers of Connecticut have imaginations that “…failed to hold, in either flesh or ink, bodies like ours.”
This site seeks to contrast the traditional realm of literature in Connecticut, with information about such famed authors as Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Wallace Stevens, with the contemporary reality of life in Connecticut, as well as Vuong’s revolutionary literary and aesthetic portrayal of another facet of Connecticut.
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