Stylistic Characteristics of Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown between the contempt which our young critics pour out on Hawthorne's moral creations and their respect for his style. They admit a dignity in the expression which they will not grant to the thing expressed” (62). The style found in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" not only has a "dignity of expression" as stated above, but also many other interesting aspects, discussed in the following essay. Canby continues: “Hawthorne’s style has a gentle beauty; it is sometimes dull, sometimes primitive, but it is never for an instant cheap, never, like our later American styles, deficient in tone and unity. It is a style with a patina that may or may not accord with current tastes, but, as with Browne, Addison, Lamb, Thoreau, it is undoubtedly a style. Such styles arise only from rich soil, long cultivated, and such soil was that of Hawthorne. . . . Keeping himself from the new American life into which Whitman was going to immerse himself with so much exuberance, he kept, like him, his style, intact from the prosaic world of the industrial revolution, and chose, for his reality, the workings of the moral will. It is difficult to praise his style and condemn his subjects. Even romantic themes that would have been absurd in lesser hands derive their dignity from their purpose. . . . Just as Shakespeare, the Renaissance man, gave feudalism its final surge in the imagination, so Hawthorne, the morally obsessed skeptic, elevated New England Puritanism—not the theory, but the practice and, even more, results in the mind and spirit – in art. . This lies behind his style (63)....... middle of article......: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1966. Fuller, Edmund and B. Jo Kinnick in “Stories Derived from New England Living.” In Readings on Nathaniel Hawthorne, edited by Clarice Swisher. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 1996. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. “Young Goodman Brown.” 1835. http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~daniel/amlit/goodman/goodmantext.htmlJames, Henry. Hawthorn. http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/nh/nhhj1.htmlKaul, AN “Introduction”. In Hawthorne – A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by AN Kaul. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1966. Swisher, Clarice. “Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Biography.” In Readings on Nathaniel Hawthorne, edited by Clarice Swisher. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 1996. Wagenknecht, Edward. Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Man, His Tales and Romances. New York: Continuum Publishing Co..., 1989.

Essay / Stylistic Characteristics of Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown between the contempt which our young critics pour out on Hawthorne's moral creations and their respect for his style. They admit a dignity in the expression which they will not grant to the thing expressed” (62). The style found in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" not only has a "dignity of expression" as stated above, but also many other interesting aspects, discussed in the following essay. Canby continues: “Hawthorne’s style has a gentle beauty; it is sometimes dull, sometimes primitive, but it is never for an instant cheap, never, like our later American styles, deficient in tone and unity. It is a style with a patina that may or may not accord with current tastes, but, as with Browne, Addison, Lamb, Thoreau, it is undoubtedly a style. Such styles arise only from rich soil, long cultivated, and such soil was that of Hawthorne. . . . Keeping himself from the new American life into which Whitman was going to immerse himself with so much exuberance, he kept, like him, his style, intact from the prosaic world of the industrial revolution, and chose, for his reality, the workings of the moral will. It is difficult to praise his style and condemn his subjects. Even romantic themes that would have been absurd in lesser hands derive their dignity from their purpose. . . . Just as Shakespeare, the Renaissance man, gave feudalism its final surge in the imagination, so Hawthorne, the morally obsessed skeptic, elevated New England Puritanism—not the theory, but the practice and, even more, results in the mind and spirit – in art. . This lies behind his style (63)....... middle of article......: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1966. Fuller, Edmund and B. Jo Kinnick in “Stories Derived from New England Living.” In Readings on Nathaniel Hawthorne, edited by Clarice Swisher. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 1996. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. “Young Goodman Brown.” 1835. http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~daniel/amlit/goodman/goodmantext.htmlJames, Henry. Hawthorn. http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/nh/nhhj1.htmlKaul, AN “Introduction”. In Hawthorne – A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by AN Kaul. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1966. Swisher, Clarice. “Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Biography.” In Readings on Nathaniel Hawthorne, edited by Clarice Swisher. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 1996. Wagenknecht, Edward. Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Man, His Tales and Romances. New York: Continuum Publishing Co..., 1989.

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