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In Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener,” the narrator employs three men before Bartleby.  Who are they?

His paternal grandfather participated in the Boston Tea Party.

Fiction written by women writers — sometimes called sentimental or domestic fiction — were some of the most popular genres for nineteenth century readers and represent the vast majority of what Americans actually read during the nineteenth century.

In Self-Reliance, Emerson defines foolish consistency as

In Hawthorne’s “The Minister’s Black Veil,” the narrator states that “Among all its bad influences, the black veil had the one desirable effect, of making its wearer a very efficient clergyman. By the aid of his mysterious emblem he [Reverend Hooper]

According to a recent biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne, his novel The Scarlet Letter generated the following amount of money for the author during his lifetime.

After Hawthorne and his wife Sophia married, they lived in the ancestral (family) home of what writer?

Who does Young Goodman Brown meet on his errand into the woods that fateful night?

Transcendentalism is most closely associated with what location?

In The Poet, Emerson celebrates the fact that America has finally produced a true poetic genius in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.