Write a Well-Researched Argument About Earlier American Literature, argue why one of the works below is either typical of or exceptional for its era (e.g. how it employs a popular style or genre, address a contemporary theme or issue, reflects the political, cultural, and/or religious events of the time in which it was written): Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods Walt Whitman, Song of Myself Hermann Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor In making such an argument, you might do well to focus on any literary aspect of the work (e.g. theme, genre) and you must compare whichever of these works you have chosen to at least two other contemporary works of literature, including other works written by the same author or works of other authors writing in the same style or genre at about the same point in American history.