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1. ijrcs.org › wp-content › uploadsImpact of the Bible in The Major Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne

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   Hawthorne explores the complexities of human nature and morality within a Christian framework, drawing on Puritan themes and language to create powerful and thought-provoking stories. Nathaniel Hawthorne was deeply influenced by the Bible throughout his life and career as a writer. As a young man, Hawthorne read and studied the Bible extensively,

2. www.thegospelcoalition.org › article › darkening-ofDarkening of the Light: Hawthorne and the Post-Puritan Conscience

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   It is tempting to view Hawthorne in this modern era as one whose stories—featuring such taboo topics as adultery and deception—helped divest post-Puritan New England from its spiritual conscience, its theological legacy. The jeremiads of former days had fallen silent, and with them the larger-than-life preachers who ruled the conscience. It is undo...

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   We might think that Hawthorne, with his contemporary eminence (a journal has been devoted to him), went from strength to strength as a literary auteur. In reality, over the next four decades, Hawthorne lived a rambling existence not uncommon to writers. With his wife, Sophia, and three children (Una, Julian, and Rose), he traveled to find work, liv...

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   Whatever you conclude about Hawthorne, he is a figure worthy of study and contemplation. No mere scion of an enlightened age, he seemed to embrace the life of a post-Puritan while shrinking back from the proudly liberated character of this age. Not for him the triumphal narcissism of Ralph Waldo Emerson and the warming glow of Transcendentalist dev...

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3. digitalscholarship.unlv.edu › thesesdissertations › 1115"Nathaniel Hawthorne and his biblical contexts" by Conor ...

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   Feb 3, 2012 · The majority of criticism and scholarship devoted to the fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne takes for granted the relationship between Hawthorne and the Bible, focusing instead upon theology and philosophy. This work proposes that the Bible was an important and pervasive influence in Hawthorne's fiction. The Bible provides Hawthorne with numerous resources for both his artistic and moral concerns ...

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4. www.semanticscholar.org › paper › NathanielNathaniel Hawthorne and his biblical contexts - Semantic Scholar

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   Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Biblical Contexts by Conor Michael Walsh Dr. Richard Harp, Dissertation Committee Chair Professor of English University of Nevada, Las Vegas The majority of criticism and scholarship devoted to the fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne takes for granted the relationship between Hawthorne and the Bible, focusing instead upon theology and philosophy. This work proposes that ...

5. www.jstor.org › stable › 27099109“AN ENDLESS SERMON”: RELIGIOUS MOTIFS IN MELVILLE ... - JSTOR

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   nes from his current whaling novel, will help restore an essential dimension. especially true of the many biblical allusions which make the lettersR&L 51.2 (Summer 2019)1into what Melville would call “an endless sermon. relying on key scriptural texts, following the standard sermonic structure of the era (191). Before examining Melville’s ...

6. kirkcenter.org › literature › the-moral-conservatismThe Moral Conservatism of Hawthorne - The Russell Kirk Center

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   Aug 26, 2010 · The Moral Conservatism of Hawthorne. Aug 26, 2010. C onservatism in America, though so often defeated at the polls, always has held its head high among men of letters. And in some ways the most influential American writer of conservative instincts was Nathaniel Hawthorne, the “boned pirate,” the master of allegory, that humorous, melancholy ...

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   How did Nathaniel Hawthorne influence the Bible?

   • 336 The majority of criticism and scholarship devoted to the fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne takes for granted the relationship between Hawthorne and the Bible, focusing instead upon theology and philosophy. This work proposes that the Bible was an important and pervasive influence in Hawthorne's fiction.

   Nathaniel Hawthorne and his biblical contexts

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   How did Hawthorne use the Bible?

   • The historical aspect of the Bible gave depth to Hawthorne's creativity. The moral aspect of the Bible provided themes and ideas around which Hawthorne could craft his own stories.

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   What did Hawthorne read?

   • Hawthorne read the college’s required texts with interest—Locke on reason, Paley on evidentialist Christianity, and Herodotus on history—but according to biographer Brenda Wineapple found equal pleasure in his status as “a charter member of the secret Pot-8-O Club, dedicated to weekly poems” and no small amount of illicit alcohol.

   Darkening of the Light: Hawthorne and the Post-Puritan Conscience

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   How does Hawthorne describe the Blithedale Romance?

   • In The Blithedale Romance, as in a half-dozen short stories, Hawthorne describes the catastrophe of well-intentioned humanitarianism between moral blinkers. He did not convince America of the necessity for taking sin into every social calculation.

   The Moral Conservatism of Hawthorne - The Russell Kirk Center

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   What was Hawthorne's mind like?

   • The mind of Hawthorne, it seemed then and later, was something like the Salem namesake of his 1851 book, The House of the Seven Gables. It was magisterial and mysterious, filled with many rooms, open for contemplation yet not eager for tenants. The Blithedale Romance followed in 1852, The Marble Faun in 1860.

   Darkening of the Light: Hawthorne and the Post-Puritan Conscience

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   Does Hawthorne believe in original sin?

   • Belief in the dogma of original sin has been prominent in the system of every great conservative thinker—in the Christian resignation of Burke, the hard-headed pessimism of John Adams, the “Calvinistic Catholicism” of Newman, the stern vigour of J. F. Stephen. With Hawthorne the contemplation of sin is his obsession, almost his life.

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8. www.researchgate.net › publication › 337753696Reflection on Hawthorne's Use of Biblical Allusions and ...

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   Abstract —Nathaniel Hawthorne's master work The Scarlet. Letter revealed the impact of The Bible on him. The novel is a. powerful tale of passion, Puritanis m and revenge, which is. treated as ...