In this episode, Jacke discusses the life and works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), including his major themes, the distinction he drew between "romances" and "novels," his friendship with Herman Melville, his childhood in Salem, and his uneasy relationship with his Puritan ancestors. We also declare a Tweet of the Week (which fits right into our Hawthorne discussion) and look ahead to our deep dive into Hawthorne's masterpiece, The Scarlet Letter (1850).

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Take a break and unwind as Perry F. Bruns reads The Prophetic Pictures by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This is part 1 of 2.

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Our studies have recently shifted to people who are writing for the sake of evoking an American character in their work. Irving and others sought to capture the new nation through monsters and folksy tales, and those tales are now embedded in our national consciousness. The focus now shifts to those who continue that tradition while seeking to defy some of the optimism of the Enlightenment. These authors, such Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne, reveled in the unknown, thereby implicitly arguing that there is something unreachable in nature, what might possibly be termed the 'noumenon' of Kantian transcendental idealism. This episode focuses on Hawthorne's work so that it might show the way this author manifests those goals in his short fiction.

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Dore, Gustave. Dudley Street, Seven Dials. Victorian Web, http://www.victorianweb.org/history/london/7dials.html. Accessed 20 Oct. 2020.

Let’s get literary! This week, we’re taking a look at Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown.” Is it horror? Is it really even a story? Your guess is as good as ours!

This week, Beto and Sarah discuss The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and read your Twilight listener mail! They learn more about Hawthorne, discuss Hester’s punishment, bad physicians/roommates, and who they think are the best and worst characters. Is this book worthy of your bookshelf? Listen and find out! 

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