Although Nathaniel Hawthorne called himself "the obscurest man in American letters," his achievements in fiction, both as short-story writer and novelist, offer models fashioned too well for contemporary and later writers to ignore. Even though fame was...
When Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts, on our most patriotic holiday in 1804, his ancestral roots were already deeply planted in New England. Writing in The Scarlet Letter (1850) of his sentimental affection for the town of his birth,...
In sketches, tales, and romances published in the second third of the nineteenth century, Nathaniel Hawthorne chose mainly American materials, drawing especially on the history of colonial New England and his native Salem in the time of his early America...
Giving Old Stories a New Look Helps-Sometimes TWICE-TOLD TALES BY MICHAEL FEINGOLD THE WORLD OVER By Keith Bunin Playwrights Horizons/Duke Broadway and 42nd Street 212-239-6200 HAPPY DAYS By Samuel Beckett Cherry Lane Theatre 38 Commerce Street 212-239-6200 THE GOAT...
A Republic of Righteousness: The Public Christianity of the Post-Revolutionary New England Clergy. By Jonathan D. Sassi. Oxford University Press, 298 pp., $49.95. IMAGINE THIS: A group of American Protestants uses its numerical superiority and cultural currency to fight what it sees...
