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|a The marble faun: the focal point of Hawthorne's religious convictions |h [electronic resource]. |
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|a Miami, Fla. : |b Barry University, |c 1958. |
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|a Barry University Theses -- Graduate Division. |
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|a Thesis (M.A.)--Barry University, 1958. |
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|a Includes bibliographical references (leaves. 107-111). |
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|a Copyright Paul Catherine Loeffler, O.P. Permission granted to Barry University to digitize, archive and distribute this item for non-profit research and educational purposes. Any reuse of this item in excess of fair use or other copyright exemptions requires permission of the copyright holder. |
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|a Recent research has done much to remove the stigma of recluse and solitary from the name of Nathaniel Hawthorne. It has brought him out into the daylight where he is seen to be a man of flesh and blood, endowed with not only a keen intellect but an exceptionally perceptive faculty for analyzing the human heart. Some critics nave emphasized Hawthorne’s ability to picture his native New England; other have associated him with the Transcendental school of Emerson and Thoreau. At least one work has devoted itself entirely to presenting Hawthorne as a social critic. Comparatively little treatment has been given exclusively to the author’s religious convictions, although much has been said and will be said about his concern with the problem of evil. One school of thought tends to remove this concern from the realm of morality. It sees Hawthorne as a kind of detached observer of sin and its consequences. Another is willing to concede that he had a personal interest. This paper purposes to present Hawthorne as a man of deep religious convictions who adhered to no formal body of beliefs. In particular it will consider his reactions to Catholicism. It will in aligning his Italian Notebooks with the last important novel The Marble Faun. attempt to show that the Italian residence of a year and a half was a crucial point in the author’s religious development; that The Marble Faun mirrors a struggle to define his own moral code and to defend it against a new and powerful force which threatened to overwhelm all his previously conceived notions. Three aspects of Hawthorne’s contact with the Honan Catholic religion will he viewed in their relation to his personal expressions of belief, Hawthorne, an inveterate user of symbols, employs certain significant symbols both in the notebooks and in the novel, and these occur frequently enough to enable the reader to form conclusions about the state of the writer's moral consciousness oaring this time. Furthermore, the symbols coincide (though not in strict chronological order) with three successive phases of the Italian sojourns The initial, almost violent, reaction to Catholicism, followed oy a warn but half-reluctant attraction to it, and culminating in a rejection of it as a formal body to truth. The result appears to have been twofold first, a sort of compromise between the stem Puritan creed and the apparent moderation of the Catholic religion) secondly, a steady regression into the shadows and away from the sunlight of optimism. Never again was Hawthorne so sure of his own powers, physical or spiritual as he had been before the European tour. Since The Parole Faun is to be regarded as a focal point, it seems necessary to indicate the nature and growth of Hawthorne’s religious convictions prior to 1858. In addition, one must note the denouement. The jolt which those same convictions received should be taken into consideration when noting the steady decline of literary productivity between 1860 and 1864, a loss of momentum during the final phase which has proved so puzzling to his critics. |
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|a Electronic reproduction. |c Barry University, |d 2020. |f (Barry University Digital Collections) |n Mode of access: World Wide Web. |n System requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software. |
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|a Barry University Archives and Special Collections. |
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|a Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. Marble faun. |
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|a American fiction |x 19th century |x History and criticism. |
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|a Loeffler, Paul Catherine. |
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|a Barry University Digital Collections. |
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|a Theses and Dissertations. |
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|a BUDC |c Theses and Dissertations |
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|u http://sobekcmsrv.barrynet.barry.edu/AA00001820/00001 |y Click here for full text |
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