全套美国文学精心整理的各个时期作家作品简介Nathaniel Hawthorne.pptVIP

Lecture 13 Nathaniel Hawthorne Contents Nathaniel Hawthorne Biographical Introduction Major Works Hawthorn’s Aesthetic Thinking Appreciating The Scarlet Letter Features of Hawthorne’s Writing Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) Novelist Short Story Writer One of the Central Figures of American Renaissance (1830-1860) Biographical Introduction (1) Family Background Born in Salem, Massachusetts on July 4th, 1804 Father, a sea captain died of yellow fever when Hawthorne was four Prominent ancestors in the Puritan theocracy of 17th century New England. William Hathorne(1606-1681): A colonial magistrate notorious in the persecution of Quakers John Hathorne(1641-1717): a Judge at the Salem Witchcraft Trial in 1692 Biographical Introduction (2) Marriage Married Sophia Peabody in 1842, and enjoyed a long and happy marriage with her “She is, in the strictest sense, my sole companion; and I need no other - there is no vacancy in my mind, any more than in my heart…” (Hawthorne) “I am always so dazzled and bewildered with the richness, the depth, the ... jewels of beauty in his productions that I am always looking forward to a second reading where I can ponder and muse and fully take in the miraculous wealth of thoughts” (Sophia) Biographical Introduction (3) Education Bowdoin College in Maine (1821-1825) making friends with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Franklin Pierce (14th President) Biographical Introduction (4) Working Experience Editor (1839-1840) Surveyor of the Port of Salem (1846-1849) Consul of the United States at Liverpool, England (1853-1857) Writer Salem A city of northeast Massachusetts, northeast of Boston. Population, 38,091. Founded in 1626 and had been a flourishing port in the early 19th Century America Noted as the site of Witchcraft Trials (1692) and of Nathaniel Hawthornes House of the Seven Gables. Major Works Novels 1828: Fanshawe 范肖 1850: The Scarlet Letter 红字 1851: The House of the Seven Gables 带七个尖角阁的房子 1852: T