Taylor investigates the representation of guilt and the search for redemption in Nathaniel Hawthorne's two novels, The Scarlet Letter and The Marble Fun. She reveals the distinction that Hawthorne draws between the act of penance and the attitude of penitence even as he question whether confessions should be made to the community--an act which may transform the sinner into a scapegoat or a saint-- or to one other in secret, a procedure which may preserve individuality and personhood.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, there were old-fashioned literary feuds: Herman Melville-Nathaniel Hawthorne, F. Scott Fitzgerald- Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac-Allen Ginsberg. In the 21st century, there are newfangled media feuds, multiplatform spats played out loudly and loutishly on radio, TV and the Internet. It makes you pine for the simpler, saner days when Leo Tolstoy challenged Ivan Turgenev to a duel.
Once tribal lands of the Mohawks and Mohicans, and later populated with missionary settlements, the Berkshires became a fashionable retreat for the captains of industry in the Gilded Age. The Vanderbilts, Carnegies and Westinghouses built grand seasonal estates, and the region became a spring and summer escape for city- weary socialites. Artists and writers were attracted by the area's bucolic character and inspiring landscapes, prompting the likes of Norman Rockwell, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville to put down local roots.
Most people read a classic piece of literature and either say they liked it or they didn't. Deborah Noyes, a children's book editor by trade, re-read Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" and saw room for expansion.
There can be no outrage? more flagrant than to forbid the culprit to hide his face for shame. - Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850
Nightwoods" by Charles Frazier ("Cold Mountain") is his third novel set in the Appalachian Mountains. Luce is private, bordering on reclusive, living as a caretaker of an abandoned lakeside resort when she suddenly learns of her estranged sister's death. Now she has her sister's catatonic kids to take care of and her sister's violent ex, possibly a killer, to deal with. "When She Woke" by Hillary Jordan is a modern adaptation of "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hannah wakes to find herself "chromed" with a total body dye that leaves one completely red from head to toe. This is her punishment for her abortion and now she is at the mercy of her society who will see her crime the minute they see her.
It may not have been the place he spent the most years of his life, and it wasn't where his masterpieces were written, but it is said the house on the corner of Hawthorne and Cape roads was where Nathaniel Hawthorne was happiest. It is also where the Hawthorne Community Association will celebrate Nathaniel Hawthorne's 200th birthday at 7 p.m. Saturday, with a visit from an actor portraying the author and a strawberry shortcake feast. It is no secret that Nathaniel Hawthorne, author of some of the most famous works in American literature, spent time in Maine. He was a graduate of Bowdoin College, and a group of volunteers have been spreading the word since 1922 that his part-time boyhood home is in Raymond.
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