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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Hawthorne, Nathaniel"”.
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Hawthorne's isolate and the holy hearth
One of the major themes throughout the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne portrays an image of men and women who are physically and morally isolated from the world. So extensive was Hawthorne's interest in this problem that it emerges as a distinct concern in his philosophy. This thesis will discuss the …
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's attitudes toward organized Christianity.
In much of his writing Hawthorne discloses specific attitudes toward the forms of organized Christianity by which he was confronted during his lifetime. The purpose of this thesis has been to reveal his attitudes and his personal beliefs which are either quite similar to or are definitely contrary …
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A critical analysis of Hawthorne's The Marble Faun.
… into five parts. Chapter I reveals facts of Hawthorne's European stay and actual composition of the romance. Chapter II presents Hawthorne's source material for The Marble Faun in the hope that it can be more clearly revealed that the main body of Hawthorne's romance was based on his …
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Septimius Felton: Hawthorne's Last Novel
… is a little-known work by the well known Nathaniel Hawthorne. The book was the third of four attempts Hawthorne made near the end of his life to construct a full-fledged romance. His first two attempts were titled <em>The Ancestral Footstep</em> and <em>Doctor Grimshaw's Secret.</em> The …
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"Measured Feet and Jingling Lines" : The Poetry and Poetic Attitudes of Nathaniel Hawthorne
<p>A study of Hawthorne's poetry and poetic attitudes encompasses three separate but integrally related areas. First, few people realize that Hawthorne wrote verse, and no other investigation of the nature and significance of the meager surviving body of this poetry has yet been undertaken. But …
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Three Studies in Characterization
… created more diversity in characters.</p> <p>HAWTHORNE'S FAIR MAIDENS. It is the object of this paper to reveal many of the seemingly ideal qualities the maidens share with Sophia Hawthorne, Nathaniel's much beloved wife, and then use the characters of the major fair maidens--Phoebe, Priscilla …
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The paradigm of dissolving form in Hawthorne's short stories
… amount of criticism has been devoted to Hawthorne's fiction, although the larger studies usually focus on his novels. When, as in recent years, critics do confront the short stories, some half-dozen frequently anthologized tales are scrutinized carefully for their allegorical, symbolic, …