Nathaniel Hawthorne in the Discourse of the Popular Religious Culture of the Second Great Awakening

Abstract

The article explores the modern issues of scholarly analysis of Nathaniel Hawthorne‟s literary work in the discursive space of American religious reformism that was an essential part of popular democratic culture in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century. Due to the recent discovery of numerous elements from the religious discourse of The Second Great Awakening throughout Hawthorne‟s work, contemporary scholars are only beginning to comprehend the significant connections between Hawthorne and the national discursive practices of the age in which he lived, the American Renaissance.