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The Romantic literary tradition is exemplified by Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. This paper examines ...

In four pages the acceptance of change among individuals are compared in the characterizations of Calisher's Greenwitch, Hawthorne...

a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...

This, however, always provoked a fresh volley from his wife; so that he was fain to draw off his forces, and take to the outside o...

a specific time or age. While romanticism will be prominent in certain epochs, because in its essential characteristics it is a sp...

combination that seemed to be excluded was "gothic romances." According to Alexander (1971), the reasons why Poe should be cons...

This paper discusses how American Romanticism is represented in 'Rip Van Winkle,' a short story by Washington Irving in three page...

gothic tone, which is a feature of romanticism. Goodman Brown soon arrives at his destination as he meet a man who has been wait...

powerful issue. While Puritan thought had gotten the country this far, "Religion...was also ready for romanticism and its kind of ...

In five pages this paper analyzes the novel in terms of Hawthorne's use of Romanticism. There are no other sources listed....

isolated as a result. In many ways, it is the men...

This essay discusses short stories Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat," contrasting...

In five pages this paper considers how 'The Birthmark' by Nathaniel Hawthorne epitomizes the principles of Romanticism. Three sou...

and... evokes that stage of Puritanism when a diminished conviction was beginning to be replaced by a somewhat hypocritical moral ...

33). This quotation indicates the precision with which Poe crafted his stories. Each word and image is chosen with care and, coll...

even on good speaking terms with him. This leads the rest of the townsfolk to determine that Brown is crazy making Hawthornes poin...

In eight pages the importance of setting historical setting in order to take readers back to an earlier period is considered in an...

of instruction and inspiration, freedom of the individual, self-analysis, a high value placed on finding connections with nature a...

Such a setting, she points out, simply added to the fear and accusations of witchcraft against innocent people (Jacobs). I...

repressed. Sexuality, gender, cultural practice, ideology, and narrativity, among other things are represented within art as appe...

In five pages this paper discusses the English Romantic movement and how American Romanticism is characterized the works of Nathan...

him when Wally brings his girl friend, Candy, to the orphanage to get an abortion. Wally, Homer, and Candy all become very close f...

In seven pages the literary device of fate is examined within the context of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Edgar Allan...

on the storys being about Marlow, rather than Kurtz, regarding it as a journey into Marlows consciousness. The student should als...

In 5 pages this paper discusses how realism and romanticism are represented in literature of the nineteenth century with compariso...

decline, from onset to death, takes but "half an hour" (Poe). In the face of this overwhelming specter of death, Prince Prospero i...

In five pages this research paper explores how Baudelaire unlike his Romantic contemporaries Shelley, Wordsworth, and Keats probed...

In three pages the ways in which literature reflects the development of an American identity are examined in the works of such aut...

This paper examines four literary criticisms of Nathaniel Hawthorne's story, Young Goodman Brown. The author also discusses Hawth...

(Irving [1]). The author indicates that if he were left alone he would have been very happy doing nothing for his entire life. Thi...