A Study of the Stylistic Technique of Nathaniel Hawthorne in the Creation of Romance

• Main Author: McCrory, Mary Dell
• Other Authors: Miller, Lee W.
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: North Texas State University 1967
• Subjects: Nathaniel Hawthorne; style; romanticism; short stories
• Online Access: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc130783/

For convenience and for control, the analysis of Nathaniel Hawthorne's style presented here is limited to a selection of his short stories. The short story form will serve better to illustrate the thesis of this paper, that Hawthorne's style is used deliberately to create, in part, the neutral territory he desired. The shorter form has been chosen, additionally, because it requires of its author a certain discipline--superfluous elements of style must be abandoned so that the story can get on about its business. Hawthorne's short fiction, moreover, contains nearly all the stylistic techniques which he later used in his novels.