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In Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown,” who is Faith?

Hawthorne and his wife Sophia moved into a house owned by Emerson’s family, the Old Manse, in Concord. There, Hawthorne became part of the important literary milieu that included Thoreau, Fuller, and ______________.

Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener” can be read as

Transcendentalists also agreed that the conduit to truth was within and located it particularly in ______________ .

Which of the following is the correct chronology?

In Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown,” who is Goody Cloyse?

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