Study of Hawthorne's Gothic Art Novel

摘要

Nathaniel Hawthorne is outstanding America in the 19th century romanticism writer; he inherited the essence of early British gothic fiction, created with the flavor of "gothic romance", a strong impact to the European Renaissance. In his works, we can not only see the darkness, also can see the light, so that he made in the English and American literature gothic romance darkness into light gray, can let people see hope, still can obtain spiritual freedom and identification of self-worth. This paper hope through Hawthorne's works to speculation gothic art characteristics under his brush strokes, and interpreted the early British gothic literature "American inheritance and beyond".