Nathaniel Hawthorne, the transcendental movement and The Blithedale Romance as a novelistic critique

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Mannheim, language: English, abstract: The paper is divided into two main sections. The first section informs about the historical background of the transcendental movement, its central ideas and its main followers. Further, basic information about Hawthorne’s attitude to...