Spectators in the Age of Transcendentalism: a Study of Hawthorne's Thoughts
by Dai Xianmei
About This Novel
Nathaniel Hawthorne is an important novelist in the history of American literature. His reflection and inheritance of the American Puritan cultural tradition, his emphasis on the history of colonial New England, his use of allegorical and symbolic techniques to create romantic literature, his deep understanding and delicate portrayal of character psychology, his serious thinking and literary expression of the development trend of American society in the first half of the 19th century have become a valuable literary legacy, which greatly influenced later American novelists such as Melville and Henry James. "The Bystander in the Transcendentalist Era: A Study of Hawthorne's Thoughts" uses the perspective of cultural studies to carefully read and study Hawthorne's forty-year literary works in the era in which he lived and the Western cultural and ideological tradition. It studies and discusses Hawthorne's outlook on life, morality, history, progress, human nature, and women. It focuses on exploring the reference value of worldly care, the beauty of the mean, and humanistic care in Hawthorne's thought to the development of our current era.
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