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.
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After Hawthorne and his wife Sophia married, they lived in t…
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 woo…
Who does Young Goodman Brown meet on his errand into the woods that fateful night?
In The Poet, Emerson celebrates the fact that America has fi…
In The Poet, Emerson celebrates the fact that America has finally produced a true poetic genius in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Transcendentalism is most closely associated with what locat…
Transcendentalism is most closely associated with what location?
In general, the Transcendentalists respected authority and v…
In general, the Transcendentalists respected authority and valued tradition.
Which of the following writers would be considered a “dark r…
Which of the following writers would be considered a “dark romantic.”
In 1839, he lit out not for the wilderness but for a differe…
In 1839, he lit out not for the wilderness but for a different frontier: the ocean.
What ________________ experienced at sea, in ports, and on i…
What ________________ experienced at sea, in ports, and on islands shaped his life and writing and made him claim that ” . . . a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
This Transcendentalist poet published the first biography of…
This Transcendentalist poet published the first biography of Thoreau.