Lecture 5 The American Romanticism课件.pptVIP

American Literature The American Romanticism Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864) 1.Literary achievements Hawthorne was the first major American novelist．He began the tradition in American fiction later cultivated by Herman Melville and Henry James，and，much later by William Faulkner and Robert Penn Warren. 2) Hawthorne was concerned with the timeless themes of sin，guilt，and redemption．He was a moralist, believing that evil was at the core of human life. He defined his writings as romance，and defined romance as a method of probing “the depths of our common nature．” To Ha