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    1. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864), “The Prison Door,” from The Scarlet Letter (1850) 2010

      Nathaniel Hawthorne

      Boston, p. 27.

      Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864), novelist and tale-teller, was a central presence in the American literary renaissance. Along with the works of John Winthrop in the seventeenth century and Robert L... Read more

      Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864), novelist and tale-teller, was a central presence in the American literary renaissance. Along with the works of John Winthrop in the seventeenth century and Robert Lowell in the twentieth, Hawthorne’s mid-nineteenth-century romance,The Scarlet Letter, was most influential in shaping the idea of Boston. His dark vision of the city is evident in the first chapter onThe Scarlet Letter. Read less

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    2. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (1804– 1864) 2001

      Thomson, Douglass H; Voller, Jack G; Frank, Frederick S

      Gothic Writers.

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    3. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) 1995

      The Real War Will Never Get In The Books.

      Nathaniel Hawthorne's letters showed vitality and independence. He tweaked his dear English friends for supporting the Confederacy and he derided his abolitionist neighbors for their simplicity. He... Read more

      Nathaniel Hawthorne's letters showed vitality and independence. He tweaked his dear English friends for supporting the Confederacy and he derided his abolitionist neighbors for their simplicity. He marveled at how war-spirit galvanized the nation and even proclaimed a desire to shoulder a musket himself. However, he failed to see what would be gained from the slaughter and was more than willing to let the Confederacy go provided that the border states—Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri—remained with the Union. In Washington, D.C. Hawthorne became part of a Massachusetts delegation that called at the White House and met Abraham Lincoln. He returned to Concord and completed the manuscript of “Chiefly About War-Matters.” The essay was a searching meditation on the war, simultaneously patriotic and treasonous, lyrical and satirical. James Fields, editor of the Atlantic Monthly, liked the piece, but asked Hawthorne to alter his description of Lincoln which Hawthorne later refused. Read less

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