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Nathaniel Hawthorne
(1804-1864)"
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Biography"
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n Born in Salem, Massachusetts"n One of his own ancestors a Puritan judge who persecuted
Quakers in 1650; another a judge active in the Salem witch trials of the 1690s"
n Father died when he was 4"
n Mother went into a period of mourning that lasted 40 years, until her death"
n Graduated from Bowdoin College in Maine in 1825"
n Lived at Brook Farm (experiment in communal living) for 8 months in 1841"
n Satirized this experience in his novel The Blithedale Romance"
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n Married Sophia Peabody in 1842"
n Lived in Concord at the Old Manse (house built by Emerson’s grandfather)"
n Mixed with Transcendentalists, but couldn’t really fit in"
n Never shared Emerson’s optimism"
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Works"
n The Scarlet Letter published in 1850, considered his best work—very popular"
n The House of Seven Gables published in 1851"
n The Blithedale Romance in 1852 !
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Famous for…"n Puritan New England
settings in his work"n Exploring relationship
between individual and society"
n Themes of sin, guilt, retribution"
n Focusing on interior lives of characters"
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Dark Romantics"
n Shared things in common with the Transcendentalists:"n Valued intuition and emotion and imagination over logic and reason"n Saw symbols, spiritual truths in nature"
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Dark Romantics"n Differed in significant
ways, though:"n More pessimistic"n Saw Individuals as
prone to self-destruction (rather than inherently possessing divinity and wisdom)"
n Viewed nature as more sinister (though still a deeply spiritual force)"
n Believed that attempts at social change often failed"
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