The need for renewal: Nathaniel Hawthorne's conservatism.
| Publisher | Intercollegiate Studies Institute Inc. |
| Publication | Modern Age |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0026-7457 |
| Issues per Year | 4 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Published | 2003-09-22 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Person | Beliefs, opinions and attitudes | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Person | Political aspects | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Person | Religious aspects | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Person | Criticism and interpretation | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Person | Criticism and interpretation | Russell Kirk |
| Person | Works | Russell Kirk |
| Author | n/a | Lee Trepanier |
IN A CHAPTERIN The Conservative Mind titled "Transitional Conservatism: New England Sketches," Russell Kirk cited John Quincy Adams, Orestes Brownson, and Nathaniel Hawthorne as figures in whom the "conservative instinct struggled for successful expression" in a period of rapid innovation that was sweeping aside the ancestral institutions of nineteenth-century America. (1) Confronted with mass democracy, industrialism, and Transcendentalism, these New England conservatives either had to re-ground their beliefs in individuality, hierarchy, and reverence for transcendence on new...
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