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 ... Age of Emerson and Whitman, written in 1941. Matthiessen was influential in determining the canon of American writers from this period: Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman. Recent texts have challenged Matthiessen's notion of an American Renaissance, pointing out that the work of major American authors of this ... writing, etc. In fact, there were a number of stories circulating which focused upon s...

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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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