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A trail is a short, ordered route through the atlas. Each stop says why it comes next, so a journey reads as an argument rather than a list. Start one, leave, and come back: your place is kept in this browser, and you do not need an account for that.
Seven stops through this atlas's own recorded disagreements about where a genre, movement or form actually began, and whether some of them have ended at all.
7 stops
A short path through the atlas's own machinery for classifying literature: a genre asks what a work is (a novel, a fantasy, a horror story), a movement asks when and among whom it was written (Imagism, the Theatre of...
7 stops
Twenty-four years of Emerson's own published prose, in order: from the anonymous 1836 essay that founded Transcendentalism to the chastened last major collection of 1860.
7 stops
Six new stops across genres and forms literary history keeps close at hand but rarely maps together: an Arabic con man's rhymed prose, a Spanish orphan's picaresque road, a Persian astronomer's disputed quatrains, an...
6 stops
A path through the eight authors LiteratureAtlas opened with, from the oldest surviving epic voice to a Nobel laureate of the twentieth century, tracing how the novel, the epic and the short story took shape across...
8 stops
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