While on a ship to England to negotiate with wool merchants, this man and his son learn about proto-pragmatist philosophy from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s niece Miss Peabody. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this person whose son Owen narrates Russell Banks’ novel Cloudsplitter. Grandfather John Ames travels west to fight under this person in a 2004 novel by the author of Housekeeping.
ANSWER: John Brown
[10e] Reverend John Ames reminisces about his abolitionist grandfather of the same name fighting with John Brown in Gilead, a novel by this acclaimed Christian author.
ANSWER: Marilynne Robinson
[10h] In this massive novel by Ross Lockridge, Jr., flashbacks from John Shawnessy’s first marriage to a racist New Orleans woman intercut with the execution of John Brown. This novel spans most of the 19th century from the viewpoint of the title location in Indiana.
ANSWER: Raintree County
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