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Information on Major Literary Movements

 * **Early National Folk Literature**
 * [|Biographical and literary resources] on Washington Irving
 * [|Washington Irving's Family Home] (Now a historic site)
 * The text of [|Rip Van Winkle]
 * **Transcendentalism**
 * More than you'll ever need to know about [|Transcendentalism]
 * [|The Web of Transcendentalism] (Relationships between authors and ideas)
 * The text of [|The American Scholar] by Emerson
 * [|Walden Woods and the Thoreau Institute]
 * An annotated text of [|Walden] by Thoreau
 * **Romanticism**
 * An essay on the [|American Romantic movement]
 * Essay on [|Romanticism in visual art]
 * Perspectives on [|Romantic novels], especially the Gothics
 * [|The Poe Studies Association]
 * **Hawthorne resources**
 * Our class page on The Scarlet Letter
 * The text of [|YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN]
 * Our class page on the symbolism in Young Goodman Brown
 * The text of [|The Scarlet Letter]
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 * [|Biographical essay] on Hawthorne's life and career
 * Essay on the friendship between [|Hawthorne and Melville]
 * [|An online collection] of etexts, biographical essays, and critical writings on the life and work of Hawthorne
 * Interactive website detailing [|Hawthorne's life in Salem]