American Renaissance Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," belongs to the period known as American romanticism, the period called, by F.O. Matthiessen, the American ... humor writing, etc. In fact, there were a number of stories circulating which focused upon sexually transgressive clergymen, and this may have been an influence on Hawthorne's portrayal of Arthur Dimmesdale. American Romanticism Romanticism as broadly considered arose so gradually and exhibited so many phases that a straightforward definition proves impossible. Generally, romanticism ... but can certainly be read to gest...

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... lose or win. That is why the shape of short story is so well fitted to express this experience of the quest for identity. American writers, such as Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers and others have all experienced the approach of this theme ... to construct his identity through story-telling. He might as well stand as a pregnant symbol for America before and after independence, therefore before and after gaining its own national ...

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... Washington Irving, author of RIP VAN WINKLE; Edgar Allan Poe, author of many masterpieces, such as THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, ELDORADO, ANNABEL LEE, TO HELEN, and THE RAVEN; Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville, author of the famous MOBY DICK. The "FIRESIDE POETS" included Henry Longfellow (1807-1882) and Oliver Holmes (1809-1894). Longfellow wrote THE CROSS OF SNOW, THE ROPEWALK ... ...

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