Nathanial Hawthrone
American Gothic Literature
About Nathanial Hawthrone:
1804-1864
Was an American novelist and short story writer
Hawthorne published his first work, a novel titled Fanshawe , in 1828
When the Gothic's saw the individual, they saw the potential of evil.
His fiction works are considered part of the Romantic Movement and, more specifically, Dark romanticism.
Gothic Literature:
In American Gothic Literature you CANNOT:
~break rules
~sin against nature
~sin against the community
By the 19th century, him and Edgar Allan Poe along with Washington Irving and Herman Melville were using the gothic elements in their writing.