Nathaniel Hawthorne's Use of Witch and Devil Lore
Description:
Nathaniel Hawthorne's personal family history, his boyhood in the Salem area of New England, and his reading of
works about New England's Puritan era influenced his choice of witch and Devil lore as fictional material. The witchcraft trials in Salem were evidence (in Hawthorne's interpretation) of the errors of judgment and popular belief which are ever-present in the human race. He considered the witch and Devil doctrine of the seventeenth century to be indicative of the superstition, fear, a…
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Date:
December 1970
Creator:
Robb, Kathleen A.
Partner:
UNT Libraries