Nathaniel Hawthorne
A community portal about Nathaniel Hawthorne with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Nathaniel Hawthorne was a 19th century American novelist and short story writer. He is seen as a key figure in the development of... [more]
A community portal about Nathaniel Hawthorne with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Nathaniel Hawthorne was a 19th century American novelist and short story writer. He is seen as a key figure in the development of American literature for his tales of the nation's colonial history.
It probably has something to do with the fact that I am in my fourteenth hour of reading X-rays, CTs and ultrasounds on call today. I don't know how else to explain this post. I would do almost anything, read almost anything, Google almost anything to get away from the images of the huddled masses in the ERs and ICUs, yearning to have their brain hemorrhages, belly abscesses, and clotted veins diagnosed by yours truly. Actually, the afflicted have no idea who I am, nor will they ever, until...
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Here is the latest in my continuing series of dead author landmarks. During our recent visit to Salem, Massachusetts, Mary took this picture of me at the birthplace of Nathaniel Hawthorne, with whom I first became acquainted playing the card game "Authors" as a child. Other authors I recall from the game are Alfred Lord Tennyson, Charles Dickens, and Louisa May Alcott. I don't recall that playing the game inspired me to read any of their works. But I digress. In keeping with the spirit...
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Posted on July 4, 2008 Filed Under Random Thoughts |
I was reading this morning about July 4th and found that there are lots of literary convergences on this day - many of them related to some of my favorite writers. For example - did you know that today is Nathaniel Hawthorne’s birthday? Yup. 1804 was the year and Salem, Massachusetts was the place (an appropriate natal spot for this talented, reclusive, and darkly haunted individual). I also found that Hawthorne had a significant...
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Southern Utah University's Lee Trepanier has a good article from Modern Age in 2003 on Nathaniel Hawthorne's conservatism.
The Need for Renewal: Nathaniel Hawthorne's Conservatism by Lee Trepanier:
http://www.mmisi.org/ma/45_04/trepanier.pdf
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One of the greatest fiction writers in American literature, he is best-known for The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables .
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One hundred and sixty years ago, Salem's Nathaniel Hawthorne took on sexual hypocrisy in his great tragedy, "The Scarlet Letter." It's required reading in most American high schools, but if the young women ...
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