Hawthorne’s Darkening American Vision: “The Blithedale Romance”

By |2025-10-07T20:12:24-05:00October 7th, 2025|Categories: American Republic, History, Literature, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Religion|

"The Blithedale Romance" conveys Nathaniel Hawthorne’s disillusionment with Brook Farm, Transcendentalism, reform movements, and the quest for individual and social perfection. I. Published in 1852, The Blithedale Romance offers Nathaniel Hawthorne’s most trenchant criticism of America.[i] Unlike his more optimistic contemporaries who imagined the advance toward individual and social perfection in the United States, Hawthorne [...]

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Religious Discovery in Hawthorne’s “The Marble Faun”

By |2022-03-24T14:32:07-05:00March 24th, 2022|Categories: Literature, Michael De Sapio, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Senior Contributors|

In "The Marble Faun," we sense Nathaniel Hawthorne, descendent of Puritans, coming to terms with what some call the “Catholic Thing,” transcending the assumptions of his own culture and society in an open-minded reflection on history and art. Nathaniel Hawthorne classed The Marble Faun, his last novel, among his “romances,” works of fiction blending fantasy [...]

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