Logan is an 1822 Gothic novel by American writer John Neal (depicted). The book is inspired by the true story of Mingo leader Logan, but weaves a fictionalized story set just before the Revolutionary War. It depicts the genocide of Native Americans as the heart of the American story and follows a long cast of characters connected to each other in a complex web of overlapping love interests, family relations, rape, and (sometimes incestuous) sexual activity. Scholars criticize the story's profound excessiveness and incoherence, but praise its pioneering and successful experimentation with psychological horror, verisimilitude, sexual guilt in male characters, impacts of intergenerational violence, documentation of interracial relationships, and intersections between sex and violence on the American frontier. The novel is considered important by scholars studying the roles of Gothic literature and Indigenous identities in fashioning an American national identity.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1809:
War of the Fifth Coalition: French general Louis-Nicolas Davout defeated an Austrian force in Lower Bavaria, allowing him to rejoin the main French army. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Teugen-Hausen
1927:
American actress Mae West was sentenced to ten days in jail for "corrupting the morals of youth" for her play Sex. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_West
1989:
A gun turret on board the United States Navy battleship Iowa exploded, killing 47 sailors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Iowa_turret_explosion
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wretched: 1. Characterized by or feeling deep affliction or distress; very miserable. 2. Of an inferior or unworthy nature or social status; contemptible, lowly. 3. Of an insignificant, mean, or poor nature; miserable, paltry, worthless. 4. Of a person, etc.: behaving in a manner deserving contempt; base, despicable, wicked. 5. Of weather: causing much discomfort; very unpleasant; miserable. 6. (informal) Used to express annoyance towards or dislike of someone or something: bloody, damned. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wretched
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