The American Notebooks (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- First Published: 1932
- Type of Work: Diary
- Genres: Nonfiction, Diary
- Subjects: Nature, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, New England, Novelists, Romanticism, Literary criticism
Critical Evaluation:
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The American Notebooks review the writer’s recurrent themes of isolation, sin, the degeneration of families, and the subjugation of one person to another. Hawthorne was one of the originators of the American short-story form, and he was a leading novelist of nineteenth century American letters. He began the observations, story ideas, and character sketches that make up The American Notebooks in 1835, when he was an unknown college graduate living in isolation in Salem, Massachusetts. The last entry of the notebooks is...
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