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Nathaniel Hawthorne, the transcendental movement and The Blithedale Romance as a novelistic critique

Name: Nathaniel Hawthorne, the transcendental movement and The Blithedale Romance as a novelistic critique
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Author: B.A. Saskia Guckenburg
ISBN: 978-3-656-55287-1

Term Paper (Advanced seminar), 2013

29 Pages, Grade: 1,7

B.A. Saskia Guckenburg (Author)

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1 Introduction

2 Transcendentalism and its historical background
2.1 Faith in human potential and main thinkers
2.2 Hawthorne’s relation to transcendentalism
2.3 The Brook Farm experiment

3 The Blithedale Romance - a subverted utopia
3.1 Coverdale’s pessimism and harbingers of failure
3.1.1 Egotists and the naiveté of dreamers
3.1.2 The leitmotif of masquerading
3.2 Nature as a catalyst to God
3.2.1 Divinity of nature in contrast to urban life
3.2.2 Farm work as a key to transcendental experience
3.2.3 Opportunities and risks of mesmerism
3.3 The doctrine of self-reliance
3.3.1 Communal autarky
3.3.2 Hollingsworth’s misguided principle self-reliance

4 Concluding thoughts

5 Bibliography

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Title: Nathaniel Hawthorne, the transcendental movement and The Blithedale Romance as a novelistic critique
College: University of Mannheim
Grade: 1,7
Author: B.A. Saskia Guckenburg (Author)
Year: 2013
Pages: 29
Catalog Number: V265526
ISBN (eBook): 9783656552369
ISBN (Book): 9783656552871
File size: 503 KB
Language: English
Keywords: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Blithedale Romance, transcendentalism, Brook farm

Quote paper: B.A. Saskia Guckenburg (Author), 2013, Nathaniel Hawthorne, the transcendental movement and The Blithedale Romance as a novelistic critique, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/265526

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