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Masui, Shitsuyo. "Reading Hawthorne in the Context of the American Popular Religion," American Studies Program, Boston University, January 1996.
This study reads the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne in the context of popular religious practices from seventeenth to nineteenth-century America. Through sustained analysis of the religious themes of three major works—The Scarlet Letter (1850), The House of the Seven Gables (1852), and The Blithedale Romance (1852)—I show how traditional supernatural belief as well as contemporary pseudoscientific practices helped to shape Hawthorne’s fictional imagination. The populist impulse was especially strong in antebellum culture and had a crucial influence on Hawthorne. I argue that Hawthorne’s texts owe their textual richness to the language of wonders provided by popular religion in America.
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