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Dark Romanticism
• (often conflated with Gothicism or called American romanticism) is a literary subgenre centered on the writers Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman M e lv ille . • As opposed to the perfectionist beliefs of Transcendentalism, the Dark Romantics emphasized human fallibility and proneness to sin and self-destruction, as well as the difficulties inherent in attempts at social re fo rm .
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Features of Works
• Many of Hawthorne's writing centers on N e w E n g la n d • many works featuring moral a lle g o rie s with a P u rita n in s p ira tio n • h is w o rk s o fte n h a v e m o ra l m e s s a g e s a n d d e e p p s y c h o lo g ic a l co m p le x ity . • His fiction works are considered part of the R o m a n tic m o v e m e n t and, more specifically, D a rk ro m a n tic is m . • H is th e m e s o fte n ce n te r o n th e in h e re n t e v il a n d sin o f h u m a n ity (B la c k vis io n o f h u m a n
The Scarlet Letter
By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Content
1、In tro d u c tio n o f N a th a n ie l H a w th o rn e 1.1 b rie f in tro d u c tio n o f N a th a n ie l H a w th o rn e 1.2 m a jo r w o rk s 1.3 fe a tu re s o f w o rk s 2、T h e S c a rle t L e tte r 2.1 ch a ra c te rs 2.2 p lo t 2.3 th e m e s
Nathaniel Hawthorne
B io g ra p h y • 1804: B o rn o n Ju ly 4, 1804 in S a le m , M a s s a c h u s e tts • 1821:B o w d o in C o lle g e (Lo n g fe llo w , F ra n k lin P ie rc e • 1836:W o rk e d in th e S a le m C u s to m H o u s s e • 1841:Jo in e d B ro o k F a rm ,a tra n s c e n d e n ta lis t co m m u n ity • 1842:M a rrie d S o p h ia Peabody • 1846:liv e d in C o n c o rd n e ig h b o re d w ith E m e rs o n a n d T h o re a u • 1850:fin is h e d the S ca rle t Le tte r a n d b e c a m e frie n d w ith H e rm a n M e lv ille • 1864:die d o n M a y 19,an d b u rie d in co n c o rd ,m a s s a c h u s e tts
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