Georgia Walton, University of Leeds “Where do we find ourselves? We wake and find ourselves on a stair; there are stairs below us, which we seem to have ascended; there are stairs above us, many a one, which go upward and out of sight” (27). So begins Emerson’s 1844 essay “Experience.” He here describes a … Continue reading Emersonian Sentimentalism and George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo