Transcript Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804

Nathaniel Hawthorne
(1804 - 1864)
Time Line of Hawthorne’s Employment
1825 - 1836
Wrote and
contributed
to periodicals
1836
Edited for
a Magazine
1841 - 1842
1839 - 1841
Measurer
Wrote
children’s
books
1853
Counsulship
1828
1837
1841
1845 - 1849
1857 - 1858
Published his
first novel
Wrote a
history book
for children
Invested
in farming
Surveyor
Research for
book
Hawthorne’s Employment
• 1825 - 1836 - Wrote several short stories
and a novel, but was forced to seek
another way of employing himself because
he was not making enough money.
• 1836 - He edited for the American
Magazine of Useful and Entertaining
Knowledge, a Boston magazine.
Continued...
• 1837 - He compiled historical information
into a history book written especially for
children
• 1839 - 1841 - He worker as the measurer
for the Boston and Salem Custom Houses,
he was fired after three years
• 1841 - He invested in the Brook Farm
Commune in West Roxbury
• 1841 - 1842 - He wrote four books for
children and earned enough money to marry
Continued...
• 1845 - 1849 - He was appointed the
surveyor of the Boston Custom by the
president James Polk, he was dismissed in
1849 when Zachary Taylor took office
• 1853 - He was appointed the consulship of
Liverpool, England by his friend Franklin
Pierce when he became President
• 1857 - 1858 - He traveled to Italy and did
research for the novel The Marble Faun
– Fanshawe 1828 TOC
– My Kinsman, Major Molineux: Roger
Malvin’s Burial 1832
– Young Goodman Brown 1835
• Twice Told Tales 1837
– The Shaker Bridal 1837
– The Gentle Boy 1837
– Wakefield 1837
– Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe 1837
– Legends of the Province House 1837 TOC
– Dr. Heidegger's Experiment 1837
– The Great Carbuncle 1837
– The May-Pole of Merry Mount 1837
– The Minister's Black Veil 1837
– David Swan 1837
– The Wedding Knell 1837
– The Ambitious Guest 1837
– The Hollow of the Three Hills 1837
– Peter Goldthwaite's Treasure 1837
– The Gray Champion 1837 Illustrations.
– Endicott and the Red Cross 1837
• Grandfather’s Chair 1841
– Famous Old People 1841
• Liberty Tree 1841
• Twice Told Tales 1842 (Expended)
– Biographical Stories for Children 1842
– Mrs. Bullfrog 1846
– Mosses from An old manse 1846
– Feathertop: A Moralized Legend 1846
– The Procession of Life 1846
– Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent 1846
– Roger Malvin's Burial 1846
– The Birthmark 1846
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Young Goodman Brown 1846
The Celestial Railroad 1846
Rappaccini's Daughter 1846
The Artist of the Beautiful 1846
Drowne's Wooden Image 1846
The Scarlet Letter 1849-1850 TOC
The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle 1850
A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys 1851
My Kinsman, Major Molineux 1851
The Canterbury Pilgrims 1851
Ethan Brand 1851
The Snow Image: A Childish Miracle 1851
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• The Devil in Manuscript 1851 (20 KB)
• The Great Stone Face 1851 (50 KB)
• The House of the Seven Gables 1851 (645 KB)* TOC
• The Blithedale Romance 1852 (475 KB)* TOC
The Life of Franklin Pierce 1852
• Tanglewood Tales For Girls and Boys 1853
• The Marble Faun 1858-1860 (870 KB)* TOC
Our Old Home 1863
• Passages from the American Notebooks 1868
Passages from the english Notbooks1870
• Septimus Felton (Fragment)1872
Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks 1872
• The Dolliver Romance (Fragment)1876
Dr. Grimshawe’s Secret (Fragment) 1883
• The Ancestral Footsteps (Fragment) 1883
The Complete Works of Nanthaniel Hawthorne 1884
The Ghost of Dr. Harris 1900
The American Notebooks 1932
Complete Novels and Selected Tales 1937
The English Notebooks 1941
The Complete Short Stories Of Nathaniel
Hawthorne 1959
The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories 1962
The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel
Hawthorne 1964
The Elixir of Life Manuscripts 1977
Young Goodman Brown and Other Stories 1992
Primary Works
Twice - Told Tales
Mosses from an Old Manse
The Scarlet Letter
The House of Seven Gables
The Blithedale Romance
The Life Of Franklin Pierce
The Marble Faun
Themes in Hawthorne’s Works
Alienation: a character is in a state of isolation
because of self-cause, or a combination of both
Initiation: involves the attempts of an alienated
character to get rid of his isolated condition
Problem of Guilt: a character’s sense of guilt forced by
the puritanical heritage or by society
Pride: Hawthorne treats pride as evil. He illustrates
the following aspects of pride in various characters:
physical pride, spiritual pride, and intellectual pride.
Continued...
Puritan New England: used as a background and setting
in many tales.
Italian Background: especially in The Marble Faun.
Allegory: Hawthorne’s writing is allegorical (symbolic),
didactic (educational), moralistic (serious).
Other themes include individual vs.. society, selffulfillment vs.. accommodation or frustration, hypocrisy
vs.. integrity, love vs.. hate, exploitation vs.. hurting,
and fate vs.. free will.