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?Young Goodman Brown? and Transcendentalism         

 
    A reading of Nathaniel Hawthorne?s ?Young Goodman Brown? indicates that the author adheres to some, but not all of the Transcendentalist beliefs of the nineteenth century, especially in its symbolism and in its emphasis on personal responsibility.

 

Morse Peckham in ?The Development of Hawthorne?s Romanticism?explains some aspects of Hawthorne?s Transcendentalist beliefs:

 

But another theme begins to appear, a matter which now involved Hawthorne in the gravest difficulties, the theme of American simplification, that notion that was so common among American Romantic Transcendentalists; not only is world redemption possible, but America is the predestined place for it to happen. . . . he was intellectualy and culturally too sophisticated, too modern, to be able to enter fully into the Transcendentalist vision, which was already an outmoded stage of Romanticism, at least for the advanced. . . . One of the marks of Transcendentalism is a fantastic extravagance of style. . . .Hawthorne achieves the equival... [to view the full essay now, purchase below]

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