Characterization of Women in the Fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Description:
While his Transcendentalist contemporaries were expounding their optimistic philosophy of natural goodness, progress, and perfectibility, Hawthorne probed into the human heart, recording the darkest motives of his characters and writing bitter criticism of life. Around him men were declaring that scientific inventions, political organizations, and religious reforms were ushering in a new era; but Hawthorne viewed the new society as a probable continuation of old evils and a manufacturer of new …
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Date:
August 1956
Creator:
Estes, Emory Dolphous, Jr.
Partner:
UNT Libraries