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... Hawthorne could see , there was a struggle being waged in the American mind between the preservationist conservatives and the impulse to be immortal , precisely the cultural tension which Lincoln had suggested . But Hawthorne's reaction ...
... Hawthorne could see , there was a struggle being waged in the American mind between the preservationist conservatives and the impulse to be immortal , precisely the cultural tension which Lincoln had suggested . But Hawthorne's reaction ...
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... Hawthorne published in Samuel Goodrich's The Token a short story , " My Kinsman , Major Molineux , " now generally recognized as one of his most im- portant works . In this tale Hawthorne presents a dra- 12 matic rendition of the ...
... Hawthorne published in Samuel Goodrich's The Token a short story , " My Kinsman , Major Molineux , " now generally recognized as one of his most im- portant works . In this tale Hawthorne presents a dra- 12 matic rendition of the ...
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... Hawthorne suggests , have stopped time ; that is , after all , the very meaning of immortality . commit parricide , they will never grow up . But , he goes on , parricide will not succeed without war and death . To Hawthorne in 1832 ...
... Hawthorne suggests , have stopped time ; that is , after all , the very meaning of immortality . commit parricide , they will never grow up . But , he goes on , parricide will not succeed without war and death . To Hawthorne in 1832 ...
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