TOWARDS AN INTROSPECTIVE REALITY: POE AND HAWTHORNE RECALLED
TOWARDS AN INTROSPECTIVE REALITY: POE AND HAWTHORNE RECALLED

Summary/Abstract: Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne are the two genius writers of the nineteenth century America. They are considered the forefathers of the American Romanticism as they take romanticism beyond its borders, into a realistic dimension. What both of them practice is dark romanticism, because what permeates through their works is the negative side of people. Besides, they innovate to short story and detective fiction in which they depict a different reality of life. Although Poe and Hawthorne might look different at first sight, they have a lot in common in terms of their distinct realistic attitudes. This article will focus on these representative features of the two author‟s fiction in the short stories “The Black Cat” and “Young Goodman Brown”, both investigating themes such as the human temptation and the evil side of humankind.

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