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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Born in 1804 Salem, Massachusetts
Nathaniel Hawthorne Born in 1804 Salem, Massachusetts
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Puritan ancestors Witch-hunting John Hathorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne Puritan ancestors Witch-hunting John Hathorne
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Nathaniel Hawthorne Bowdoin College in 1825
Publishes Fanshawe anonymously in 1928 “The Minister’s Black Veil” “Young Goodman Brown” Twice Told Tales
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Nathaniel Hawthorne Brook Farm in 1841
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Marries Sophia Peabody in 1842
Nathaniel Hawthorne Marries Sophia Peabody in 1842
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Nathaniel Hawthorne Salem Custom House
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“No more perfect work of the American imagination,” D.H. Lawrence
Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter (1850) Sold 2500 copies in 10 days Best seller “No more perfect work of the American imagination,” D.H. Lawrence
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Nathaniel Hawthorne Romanticism Global artistic movement
Europe in late 1700s North America 1800s Individual > Society Nature > Industry Emotion/Intuition > Reason A “Romance”
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Nathaniel Hawthorne Transcendentalism Romanticism on Steroids
Spiritual “transcends” the physical Individual experience > doctrine Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau Sophia Peabody…
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