A 5 page analysis of Hawthorne's House of 7 Gables. The writer discusses the various Gothic features of the story, as well as Hawthorne's usage of other literary devices. No additional sources cited. A 7 page critical analysis of what a number of nineteenth-century critics said about Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel. The paper argues that Hawthorne's book was generally misrepresented and undervalued in the nineteenth century because critics read it in the light of the Realist movement.
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