1. Literature - American Renaissance and Romantic
American Renaissance Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," belongs to the period known as American romanticism, the period called, by F.O. Matthiessen, the American Renaissance. ... Recent texts have challenged Matthiessen's notion of an American Renaissance, pointing out that the work of major American authors of this period did not occur in a vacuum. ... American romanticism shares a number of characteristics with British romanticism, but it has its own uniquely American characteristics as well, growing as it does from a particularly American brand of religious thought (parti...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate
