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The Romantics

Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne. By: Justin Lorenz & Kevin Rohm. The Romantics. Romanticism stresses the importance of feelings, imagination, self-expression, and individual creativity. What is Romanticism?. Born July 4, 1804 Salem, Massachusetts

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The Romantics

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  1. Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne By: Justin Lorenz & Kevin Rohm The Romantics

  2. Romanticism stresses the importance of feelings, imagination, self-expression, and individual creativity What is Romanticism?

  3. Born July 4, 1804 Salem, Massachusetts Changed his name by adding a ‘w’ to disassociate from relatives including John Hathorne, who was a judge during the Salem Witch Trials Graduated with Franklin Peirce, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Created many works including: The Scarlet Letter, Twice-Told Tales, Tanglewood Tales, and Fanshawe Nathaniel Hawthorne

  4. Hawthorne’s works were much inspired by Puritan New England Defined a Romance as being different from a novel by not being concerned with the possible course of ordinary experience He combined history with symbolism and psychological themes Hawthorne’s works belong to dark romanticism, tales that suggest guilt, sin and evil Hawthorne

  5. Hawethornes works insist that mans’ inherited qualities include: guilt, sin, gluttony. He would also express his views on ancient sin, guilt, and retributution Later in his career Hawethorne would display his negative introspective on onthe transcendentalism movement One of his critics Poe claims Hawethorne had plagiarized off of his works. Hawethorne

  6. Melville was born in New York on August 1st,1819 Herman’s mother also added an ‘e’ to the family name after Allan his father had died The majority of Melville’s novels were initially published in the UK before coming to the USA Melville is most famous for the timeless classic “Moby Dick.” Herman Melville

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  8. During his life Melville was never successful earning only $10,000 in his writing career Melville had an romantic theme throughout his novel that reconnected his characters to childhood However, his novels are reaching higher levels of critism MeLVILLE

  9. In many of Melville’s novels there is a reoccurring theme of gender and sexuality Many critics found a male-dominate social structure in his novels His characters escaped to a man-only childhood He also explores morality and often dives into the rights we should have and the human nature Melville

  10. Melville’s last great novel “Billy Budd” has become a staple in legal scholarship. The book walks the line of morality and power. Where a captain falsely convicts a sailor to death to keep up his image Melville cleverly names the ship “Rights of Man.” He has amazing insight in this novel because he expresses human nature after corruption of power Melville

  11. Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Melville http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Hawthorne www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hawthorn.htm www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/nh/hawthorne.html Work Cited

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