Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Hawthorne, Nathaniel
(1804– 64)
   Novelist.
   Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts. He was a classmate of the poet Longfellow at Bowdoin College and, after a short period of working in a Boston customs house, he dedicated the rest of his life to his writing. He was a friend of both emerson and Thoreau, but did not share their transcendentalist views. In Christian circles, he is primarily remembered for his two novels, The Scarlet Letter, published in 1850, and The House of the Seven Gables (1851). Both deal with the values of the early American settlers, their moral ideals and their ultimate decadence. Hawthorne is thus perceived as the foremost interpreter of American Puritanism.
   M. Bell (ed.), New Essays on Hawthorne’s Major Tales (1993);
   M. J. Colacurcio, The Province of Piety: Moral History in Hawthorne’s Early Tales (1984);
   E. H. Miller, Salem is my Dwelling Place: A Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1991).

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