... Sleepy Hollow, 1844" Leo Marx" The Machine in the Garden is considered one of the landmarks in American cultural/literary studies. Whereas Marx" study is on the one hand part of a long tradition, highlighting ... into the natural idyllic (bucolic) landscape is a constitutive motif in American "culture" (here, his conceptual definition is rather blurred, cf. p.4: "the region where literature, general ideas, and certain products of the collective imagination meet"). Literary ... ideal in the general sense has become "a distinctively American theory of society", and has been transformed unde...

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... Sleepy Hollow, 1844" Leo Marx" The Machine in the Garden is considered one of the landmarks in American cultural/literary studies. Whereas Marx" study is on the one hand part of a long tradition, highlighting ... into the natural idyllic (bucolic) landscape is a constitutive motif in American "culture" (here, his conceptual definition is rather blurred, cf. p.4: "the region where literature, general ideas, and certain products of the collective imagination meet"). Literary ... ideal in the general sense has become "a distinctively American theory of society", and has been transformed unde...

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... longs for love and affection. They meet and fall deeply in love, but are restrained because of Hester's marriage. They soon receive news of Roger Chillingworth falling victim to the Native Americans, and act on their within minutes. The theme of love is evident each time they see each other. Their love never dies and only grows stronger with time. They ... 's world, and will continue to be evident throughout time. Hawthorne lets the reader feel these themes throughout the novel, which deepens the work, and makes The Scarlet letter a classic within American literature....

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• Grade Level: High School