Aspects of American romanticism in short stories by Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,5, University of Hamburg (Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Nathaniel Hawthorne, language: English, abstract: Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) is perhaps the best-known American Romantic who worked in the so-called Gothic mode. His poems and stories explore the darker side of the Romantic imagination,...