One of those urges in Hawthorne’s fiction was to illuminate the difficulties of life for the artist or writer in the U.S. of ...

Hawthorne's life is to be read in his works, and especially in his Note-Books. His biography is simply a record of the growth of his mind. His Note-Books paint him as he was, his reserve included.

ABSTRACT Braiding a literary archeology of Nathaniel Hawthorne's writings with cultural contexts, biography, and ecocritical approaches, this article first seeks to recover Hawthorne's rich and ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne died in 1864, in the midst of the Civil War, a social revolution which he profoundly distrusted; he was traveling in New Hampshire for his health with his old college friend ...