Nathaniel Hawthorne at Suite101

Posted by Melissa Howard Nov 22, 2008

Nathaniel Hawthorne's wrote gothic stories and novels that delved into the psychological history of America, specifically that of New England and the Puritans. Evert Augustus Duyckinck wrote of Hawthorne that out of all American authors "he is the most original, the one least indebted to foreign models or literary precedents of any kind".

As a result, it is important for those who wish to understand American Literature and the history of American Fiction that they read and study the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Reviews of Hawthorne Novels

The House of Seven Gables

Summary of Novels

Summary of The House of Seven Gables

• Chapters 1-5
• Chapters 5-11
• Chapters 12-14
• Chapters 15-21

Summary of Short Stories

Young Goodman Brown

Summary of My Kinsman, Major Molineux

The Artist of the Beautiful

The Minister's Black Veil

Characters of Novels

Characters in The House of Seven Gables

• The House of Seven Gables Major Characters
• The House of Seven Gables Minor Characters

Characters in Short Stories

• The Characters in Young Goodman Brown
• Characters in My Kinsman Major Molineux
• Characters in Artist of the Beautiful
• The Minister's Black Veil

Thematic Studies

• Good & Evil in Young Goodman Brown: Nathaniel Hawthorne on Guilt versus Innocence

• Themes in My Kinsman, Major Molineux:

  coming of age, order versus disorder and city versus country

Allegory in Hawthorne

• Allegory in My kinsman, Major Molineux