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Script: N. Hawthorne Editor: M. McLaughlin Producer: M. Hoffmeister

Scarlet Letter. Part I. Script: N. Hawthorne Editor: M. McLaughlin Producer: M. Hoffmeister. THE PERIOD: ROMANTICISM-1789-1901. The Romantic Age begins with Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution in 1789…. THE PERIOD: ROMANTICISM. And ends after the Civil War with Stephen Crane’s

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Script: N. Hawthorne Editor: M. McLaughlin Producer: M. Hoffmeister

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  1. Scarlet Letter Part I Script: N. Hawthorne Editor: M. McLaughlin Producer: M. Hoffmeister

  2. THE PERIOD:ROMANTICISM-1789-1901 • The Romantic Age begins with Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution in 1789….

  3. THE PERIOD:ROMANTICISM • And ends after the Civil War with Stephen Crane’s THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE

  4. ELEMENTS OF ROMANTICISM • 1. Idealism- slavery, women, education • 2. Past-exotic, mysterious, esp Amer. past • 3. Nature-ideal, teacher, noble savage • 4.Imagination-extraordinary, emotion • 5.Supernatural- Gothic, fear, terror • 6.Frontier- unlimited, freedom

  5. HAWTHORNE and the other ROMANTIC WRITERSComparisons/Connections Irving: Use of America's past including folktales, popular myths, picturesque and sublime settings Poe: Use of Gothic settings, themes, and characters; interest in dreams and other threshold states, and in sensitive individuals' propensities to madness Melville: Plumbing of the dark depths of the human mind, antipathy to authority, celebration of individual striving and sympathetic nurturing

  6. HAWTHORNE and the other ROMANTIC WRITERS Emerson: Celebration of striving toward self-fulfillment, criticism of hereditary privilege, egalitarian vision Stowe: The "damned mob of scribbling women": Celebration of women's capacities for dignity and heroism, religious piety James: Sensitive hero/narrator; psychological scrutiny; unresolved

  7. THE AUTHOR: NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (1804-64) • The Scarlet Letter (1850) • The House of the Seven Gables (1851) • The Blithedale Romance (1852) • The Marble Faun (1860) • Twice-Told Tales (1837, 1851) • Mosses from an Old Manse (1846, 1854) • The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales (1852) • The Life of Franklin Pierce (1852) • "Chiefly About War Matters" (1862) • Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches (1863) • The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair (1840) • A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys (1852) • Tanglewood Tales (1853)

  8. CONCORD, MA - HOME OF NEW ENGLAND AUTHORS • Only home owned by Nathaniel Hawthorne • He called it The Wayside, the name by which it is still known • Louisa May Alcott’s family also owned this house, Hillside; she wrote • LITTLE WOMEN • Later by Margaret Sydney-FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS The Wayside Nat’l Hist. Landmark only one in US lived in by 3 literary families

  9. CONCORD, MA-HOME OF THE NEW ENGLAND AUTHORS • After Bowdoin College, Hawthorne spent 15 years in solitude learning to be a writer.

  10. HAWTHORNE IN SALEM • Born in 1804 in Salem • Graduated Bowdoin • Retires home to learn craft for 12-15 years • Joins Thoreau/Emerson at Brook Farm-utopianism • Married Sophia Peabody at age 38 • Employed at Custom House (1839-49) 1850-THE SCAR.LETTER • American Consul in London

  11. HAWTHORNE IN SALEM • Reads and studies English Lit. and American history, esp local and family history • Obsessed with sin/guilt. Hawthorne is a pessimist by nature • Dark side of human nature.

  12. HAWTHORNE IN SALEM • Hawthorne's Ancestors • Great Great Grandfather: Major William Hawthorne - emigrated from England • Great Grandfather Colonel John Hawthorne - Judge at Salem Witch Trials • Grandfather: Hawthorne - Sea Captain • Father: Nathaniel Hawthorne - Sea Captain • Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804-1864

  13. End of Pt. 1

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