Nathaniel Hawthorne

Undergraduate / Graduate

An enigma to contemporaries, Nathaniel Hawthorne remains an uncanny, untimely literary mind. In this course we will read the full range of his writings - short stories, journals, political commentary, and the antirealist long fictions he called "romances" - in search of the writer Jorge Luis Borges considered the first great dreamer of modern literature. With Borges in mind, we will also consider Hawthorne's influence on the development of Anglo-American weird fiction.