Scarlet Letter Literary Context
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- Scarlet Letter Literary Context
- The emergence of the American Novel
- At the time Hawthorne began to write the taste of American readers was dominated by European and British authors
- There was determination amongst American intellectuals to foster a national literature
- So Nathaniel Hawthorne's prose and the poetry of Walt Whitman were celebrated as the emergence of a distinctive voice and the foundations for a national literature.
- New England Transcendentalism
- During 1830's Transcendentalists became an influential intellectual presence in Boston
- Hawthorne was caught up in the initial excitement however at the end of 8 months he declared himself weary of paradise
- Hawthorne Became profoundly sceptical about the Transcendentalist project
- The emergence of the American Novel
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